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Post Processing / Blending shots in Photoshop (CS6)
« on: 06/01/2013, 15:06:06 »
Can anyone think of a technique for blending these night exposures in Photoshop CS6?
I’ve got a range of tripod shots of an old 16th century building, with exposures going from -1.7ev to +1.7ev. Small sections of two of them are shown below.
The first (2994) is correctly exposed for the light bulbs but the building itself is underexposed. The second (2997) is correctly exposed for the building but the light bulb areas are completely blown out.
I’m trying to blend them together so that the building and the bulbs are both correctly exposed throughout. The problem is my Photoshop skills are limited and I can’t find a way of doing it without the edges of the layer mask becoming visible - i.e. if I apply it to the light bulb areas, it also darkens the walls behind (third pic below shows this effect - I’ve exaggerated it to illustrate the problem).
Does anyone have any bright ideas? (pun intended ☺). Maybe there’s a way of creating an ‘auto mask’ to replace just the areas that are over a certain level (i.e. the bulbs).
I’ve got a range of tripod shots of an old 16th century building, with exposures going from -1.7ev to +1.7ev. Small sections of two of them are shown below.
The first (2994) is correctly exposed for the light bulbs but the building itself is underexposed. The second (2997) is correctly exposed for the building but the light bulb areas are completely blown out.
I’m trying to blend them together so that the building and the bulbs are both correctly exposed throughout. The problem is my Photoshop skills are limited and I can’t find a way of doing it without the edges of the layer mask becoming visible - i.e. if I apply it to the light bulb areas, it also darkens the walls behind (third pic below shows this effect - I’ve exaggerated it to illustrate the problem).
Does anyone have any bright ideas? (pun intended ☺). Maybe there’s a way of creating an ‘auto mask’ to replace just the areas that are over a certain level (i.e. the bulbs).