Here is manual blend using a proprietary technique (developed by Varina and myself) called iHDR (Intelligent HDR). The technique requires a user to create “Luminosity Clusters”. Then refine these luminosity clusters to control the amount of blend in different areas of the image.
Obviously, this particular example did not require 3 exposure, but the technique can be used for as may exposures as necessary. Refined blending mask is show below:
I spend 20 minutes this morning before I left for work to produce this image. With this technique you can spend as little as 10 minutes to blend or as much as 40 minutes...depends on how much refinement you are willing to do. Most of my images take about 15-20 minutes to blend.
Thanks.
-Jay
Mar 30, 2009 at 08:51 AM
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