exposure bracketing can someone explain

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Hi i understand how to do the first part and get say 3 or 5 shots or an infinate number of exposures, but then how do i put these together in PS and let the programme know that i want the room exposed correctly but the window view exposed for the outside and not the blown out white thats appeared in the exposed shots for the room?

Is there a magic button im missing :thinking: or do i have create layers and clear back the darker areas? this seems very long winded and sometimes feels like im colouring in a childrens book and going way over the lines :lol:

Helllllp please
 
i dont want to do that HDR stuff just dont like it, its more if im taking a picture if say a decorated room and the windows are streaming with sunlight i should take a few bracketed but its the putting them together thats confusing everyone just sems to say 2bracket" but im finding it a tad confusing
 
It's possible to do HDR with subtlety, so that it doesn't have that saturated, CGI feel to it. You just have to be gentle with the tone mapping.

Otherwise, you're going in the right direction in your OP by masking out layers from different exposures in Photoshop. As you've discovered, it's fairly tedious work, which is why HDR software exists to to achieve something very similar in a rather less painless manner.

e2a: Other than that, there's no magic button.
 
If you're using PS CS5, just go to automate-merge to HDR. Select the bracketed images you want and it'll merge them. PS has a load of default maps. Hopefully one of those will suit you, otherwise, you can play around with the tone map yourself.
 
Try Photoshop and layers. Use the blending option as screen or lighten and adjust the opacity, somewhere around 40% for each layer apart from the background usually works.

This was 22 layers as a test.
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