LR stacking, multable exposures with 6D: I have been looking at stacking photos in LR5 but can not find much information on it. It appears to be very similar to multiple exposures in...

oldtool2 Loc: South Jersey

I have been looking at stacking photos in LR5 but can not find much information on it. It appears to be very similar to multiple exposures in the Canon 6D but with the 6D I can only do that with JPG photos. In LR I can stack with raw photos. I would think that would give me more access to the detail hiding in the shadows, correct?

Can anyone give me more info about stacking using LR?

Jim D

Searcher Loc: Kent, England

oldtool2 wrote:

I have been looking at stacking photos in LR5 but can not find much information on it. It appears to be very similar to multiple exposures in the Canon 6D but with the 6D I can only do that with JPG photos. In LR I can stack with raw photos. I would think that would give me more access to the detail hiding in the shadows, correct?

Can anyone give me more info about stacking using LR?

Jim D

In LR, stacking simply means putting similar images on top of each other for "storage" in the display area.

If however, you installed Photomatix you could stack images from LR for tone mapping and HDR.

oldtool2 Loc: South Jersey

Searcher wrote:

In LR, stacking simply means putting similar images on top of each other for "storage" in the display area.

If however, you installed Photomatix you could stack images from LR for tone mapping and HDR.

Yes, I am familiar with Photomatix, I have a trial version. I was hoping that stacking in LR was the same idea, or similar, but guess not.

Jim D

Psergel Loc: New Mexico

oldtool2 wrote:

Yes, I am familiar with Photomatix, I have a trial version. I was hoping that stacking in LR was the same idea, or similar, but guess not.

Jim D

Stacking is a form of organizing in LR. Not a processing option.

Eagle2352 Loc: Oxford, Ga

I have done some stacking .. Sort of HDR in Elements.. More of an experiment. Some of the new cameras do it internally .. With 2 up to 7 exposures. Anyone has a camera that handles HDR in camera.. Care to comment?

chaprick

Eagle2352 wrote:

I have done some stacking .. Sort of HDR in Elements.. More of an experiment. Some of the new cameras do it internally .. With 2 up to 7 exposures. Anyone has a camera that handles HDR in camera.. Care to comment?

The original poster does have a camera with built in HDR....a 6D. They commented that it only does jpg and they want to do RAW.

oldtool2 Loc: South Jersey

Eagle2352 wrote:

I have done some stacking .. Sort of HDR in Elements.. More of an experiment. Some of the new cameras do it internally .. With 2 up to 7 exposures. Anyone has a camera that handles HDR in camera.. Care to comment?

My 6D will shoot in camera HDR but it is really limited. It will only do it when shooting in JPG, not raw or raw + JPG. Also, it will only do it using three photos.

On the plus side it will automatically align the photos if you are hand holding you camera, which is nice. Once you take the three photos the camera develops them producing one photo which it saves. It does not save the three shots you took to produce it though.

I think the 5D mk. III will do the same but uses raw or jpg. Sense I don't own one I am not sure of its limits. You can read a little about it here:

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii/16

It does look like an interesting feature. I don't know how it would compare to using Photomatix though.

Jim D

oldtool2 Loc: South Jersey

Eagle2352 wrote:

I have done some stacking .. Sort of HDR in Elements.. More of an experiment.

I have PSE 10 as well as LR 5. Can you explain how it is done using PSE?

Jim D

oldtool2 Loc: South Jersey

Searcher wrote:

If however, you installed Photomatix you could stack images from LR for tone mapping and HDR.

Searcher,

I was just looking at Photomatix essentials again. I hadn't looked at it in quite a while. I see they have four or five different versions of it.

Is there any particular one you would recommend for using with LR? And why?

Thank you in advance.

Jim D

ptcanon3ti Loc: NJ

Photomatix 5 is very flexible and offers MANY options by which you can customize your stacked images.

kymarto Loc: Portland OR and Milan Italy

Photomatix makes a Lightroom plugin. It will allow you to make a 32 bit floating point TIFF file containing all the information of a bracketed series, which you can open in LR and manipulate using the standard developing controls. I don't use it--I use Photomatix 5, which is more expensive but offers standalone options going far beyond the plugin (which it includes), but for very decent, natural-looking HDR, the plugin is very good.

Eagle2352 Loc: Oxford, Ga

Apologies .. I missed the question .. PSE in the advanced tab has somethig called enhance image. The bottom of the tree it has photo merge and then you can select exposure. At that point you can take as many images as you want to select and then it gives you additional options as to how to merge them. Automatic is easy and you generally get good results, manual gives you more options to include alignment. My e 10 does the in camera HDR as well, but if you are setting it to do JPG and Raw only the JPG is provided with the HDR, you also get a raw image at the camera correct exposure. Hope that helps. I have to read up on Photomerge manual.