The impossible light
Sometimes I see a shot and think that would be awesome, but achieving it from a technical stand point can be a bit of barrier, i suppose more correctly its probably a effort barrier now more than technical, i think this image sums that comment up nicely.
Its a 3 frame wide panorama and as you can probably imagine with the sun on one side and detail trees in the middle its a pretty high dynamic range scene, one that the human eyes sees and goes, 'wow sweet' π well mine do any way π but the poor old camera (even with its whizz bang technology) goes 'arrghh too much light and shadow whatcha doing to me? ' π
So to help out the poor camera and in all honesty I did not really expect this shot to work out (to a level worth pursuing), I bracketed each shot, this left me with a 9 shot picture (3 frames bracketed (-3ev, 0, +3ev). I stitched up the panorama with the brackets as separate layers and then manually masked the bright and dark areas to increase the dynamic range, by this stage i was thinking the amount of effort is not quite proportional to the outcome, especially when comparing to the long exposure shot I took a few minutes afterwards (see here: https://plus.google.com/+GerardBlacklock/posts/dUNKtPoh1Ay) the actually effort at the scene and also at the computer was significantly less for the linked image π
anyway, it did all work to a level that at the very least deserved to be posted here on gplus π
Exif love:
3 shot panorama (each frame bracketed)
D750 coupled with Nikkor 16-35 mm f4 @ 24mm Aperture: f18 and Shutter Speed: 18s (over exp) 5s (normal exp) 1s (under exp)
ISO 100
Out front – LEE GND (0.6x)
+Gerard Blacklock Much of that sounds like a foreign language to me Gerard. However, the outcome is what's important, and in this case it's very good indeed. What's really interesting though, is that each image says something completely different! Wonderful stuff indeed.
Brillant shot 😍
Superb weekend Gérard !
fantastic shot
Amazing outcome….
Very nice!!
Stunning work +Gerard Blacklock
You not only nail the image, you guide us through the process in a straightforward and understandable manner.
One example of why your posts are so excellent. Thanks!
+Gerard Blacklock You nailed this one ! BRILL π
So beautiful, glad you shared it with us!!!
This wonderful image has been chosen to be shared on#PhotoManiaAustralia +Photo Mania Australia curated by +Ed Cobb & +John Hunt (Photo Mania Australia is a part of +Photo Mania Global) Ed Cobb