Exposure Fusion
I’ve been playing around with Exposure Fusion tonight. I’ve never really liked the HDR ‘look’. The photos the HDR technique produce, generally look over the top and over edited. Exposure Fusion uses an algorithm that manages to merge multiple photos into one, natural looking photo. To do it I’ve been using a donationware OSX app called ImageFuser.
ImageFuser is a MacOSX program that fuses multiple exposures of one scene into an image with greater detail and well balanced exposure by using the well exposed areas of the original multi-exposure images. ImageFuser is a graphical frontend for the open source command line tools Enfuse and Align Image Stack.
It’s pretty straight forward, just put your camera on a tripod and take a photo that is as close to perfectly exposed as you can. Then take an underexposed shot and an overexposed shot.
In my example the lamp is really bright, but the rest of the room is dark. So my underexposed shot tried to get a bit more detail out of the lamp, and my overexposed shot got some more detail out of the wall.
Looking forward to trying it on something more interesting than my kitchen.
Note: I’m sure there is a Windows GUI for Enfuse. Google is your friend.
