Bracketed shot of 3 exposures using DPP4, Which do I layer first?

[stevet1]

Let's say I want to composit a bracketed shot of 3 exposures using DP04 (or really any editing software for that matter).

Which shot should I start with? The underexposed one? The over exposed one? Or the one in the middle?

What would be the proper layering sequence?

Steve Thomas

[rs-eos]

If you're manually compositing, you usually start with the middle capture since the majority of the content would presumably come from it.  Then, use various techniques to bring up shadow detail using the overexposed layer and highlights with the underexposed layer.

[stevet1]

Ricky,

Thanks. I'll give that a shot.

Steve

[jrhoffman75]

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@stevet1 wrote:

Let's say I want to composit a bracketed shot of 3 exposures using DP04 (or really any editing software for that matter).

Which shot should I start with? The underexposed one? The over exposed one? Or the one in the middle?

What would be the proper layering sequence?

Steve Thomas

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If you are bracketing to increase dynamic range you would use the HDR tool.

 

[p4pictures]

If you use the HDR compositing tool in DPP, it doesn't matter the order of the images. The tool evaluates the selected images to work out which elements to bring from each file.