Focus & Exposure Blending - Tufuse / Tufuse Pro
Posted on: Wed, 04/09/2008 - 6:05am
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Focus & Exposure Blending - Tufuse / Tufuse Pro
Max Lyons, (known for his gigapixel images), has recently released an updated beta of Tufuse Pro. Tufuse & Tufuse Pro are programs that create extended dynamic range ("exposure blended") and extended depth of field ("focus blended") images.
They use a technique known as 'Image Fusion' to combine the "best exposed" and/or "best focused" regions of multiple images into a single "fused" composite image. Also, interesting is it's Auto-bracketing feature that automates the creating and blending of multiple versions of a single image/shot, aka "pseudo-HDR".
For more info go here: http://www.tawbaware.com/tufuse.htm then go here: http://www.tawbaware.com/tufusepro.htm
I have both and would recommend either one/both. Tufuse is a command line program and is free. I use it as part of my Pano workflow. TuFuse Pro enhances the free TuFuse by providing a GUI to help you manage the configuration and the settings.
According to Max Lyon's site, Tufuse Pro will work with dcRAW. Which means you could use it with ARW files. (I haven't tried this yet)
Thanks I hadn't heard of it actually. If there's a command line version I'm especially interested :-D
It sounds like you're saying it's not exactly HDR, slightly different?
I was somewhat interested in HDR until
1) A700 came out :)
2) It seemed like a huge amount of trouble to get an HDR image that looks natural, but has a bit of extra range
Mr Carl here has rather sold me on using a cokin ND filter for the most extreme cases, though the a700 often minimizes the need.
thanks
Eric
-AlphaMountWorld Chef
" It sounds like you're saying it's not exactly HDR, slightly different? "
Yes, it will create HDRs & Pseudo HDRs - Let me clarify.
If you have multiple exposures - you can blend the exposures to create an HDR image.
If you have only a single exposure, it will let you create intermediate exposures (Light, medium, & dark) and then it will automatically blend those three into one image - a so called "Pseudo-HDR".
b shaw
http://bshaws.blogspot.com/