Preventing Window Blow Out

[SiR2nV]

Thank you everyone for the compliments and the advice..

Happy Shooting

[kencaleno]

Here's how to do it with two shots:

With camera on tripod: meter for highlight,(window) take a shot-then meter for shadows, (room) take another shot. In Photoshop, add lighter image to darker as a new layer, then: Select> Color Range-click highlights ,check “invert”, click “OK”. Add layer mask. Filter> Blur> Gaussian Blur 250 pixels. Flatten and save. You will get detail in highlights and shadows.

Regards, Ken

[inkista]

I like enfuse rather than going to the bother of making HDR files and tone mapping; or masking stuff with layers, but I'm lazy. You can call enfuse from Lightroom, you just need the LR/Enfuse plug-in and enfuse. Or you could go oldschool and do the command line thing. I use enfuse through Hugin for HDR panos.

I haven't tried using enfuse yet for focus stacking, though. I hear it can do that, too.