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Blending multi exposure shots to otbain an HDR shot
I shot with the camera locked several times an urban landscape that had strong highlights and shadows.
Each time I changed the exposure so that in the end I have all I need to recreate a high dynamic range shot except I don’t know how to do it in AE 6.5 or 7My first attempt was to put just two layers in my comp: one shot at exposure 1.6 and the other one shot at 5.6. Then I tried all the blending modes available; but none is able to see blown up parts in the 1.6 version and replace them with the correctly exposed from the 5.6 version.
I know in Photoshop CS2 they added a new function to create HDR images but here I want to do it with footage within AE.
Anyone tried this before?
Thanks
Arno
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You should probably be able to get close by overlaying the underexposed image on top of the other one, using ‘add’ blend mode.
In a 32-bit float project obviously.
You’ll see blown out highlights, but you can dial down the exposure in the comp viewer (by scrubbing the exposure setting) to see how the overbrights behave.
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