On Thu, 15 May 2008 08:52:42 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> composite the pictures together.
> 
>   Somehow I have never liked that type of post-processing in
>   photography.
> It gives me the feeling that the photo has been faked.
> 
>   It's a bit like you took an image rendered with povray and then added
> some lens flare effect with photoshop and then called it a "povray
> image". Yes, part of the image was made with povray, but part of the
> effect has been "faked", so it's not a pure povray image. It feels kind
> of cheating.

I think it depends on how well the compositing is done - most people 
don't do a good job with it, though, so it tends to look faked.

But if not a composite, then what would be the way to get rid of the 
bloom in the window without losing the details in the darker parts of the 
image?

Jim

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