Hazard Cave

Does this image work? This was a merge of two exposures, one for the

inside and one for the outside. Please view larger.

Dinesh,

The image does work, but the interior looks a bit more like wood rather than rock. Was it lit by an incandescent light? In any case I have used the same technique when I took a photo from inside a blockhouse on the Great Wall in China.

 

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6494965

 

-Dan

Very interesting picture!

Thanks guys.

 

Dan, that is still natural light. I did nothing special there.

 

How did you merge the exposures for your great wall pic?

Thanks for sharing how you took this image. . . it seems to work. . I would probably tone down the interior exposure just a tad. . nice shot.

Thanks Donna. I do have one more exposure with a slower speed of the interior. I will try to post that as well.

Dinesh, on the Great Wall photo, I took 2 photos looking out thru the blockhouse door. On one photo I set the shutter speed for the darker interior of the blockhouse, and on the other photo I used a faster shutter speed for the brighter light outside. In photoshop I put the shorter exposure as the bottom layer and the longer exposure as the top layer. Then came the tedious step where I drew a border using polygonal lasso function in photoshop around the view onto the outside of the blockhouse. Then I deleted this portion (overexposed) from the top layer, allowing the correctly exposed view to show thru from the bottom layer, then I merged the layers. -Dan

Thanks Dan. Let my try you technique with the other exposure and see how it turns out.