marc_dilley1 0 Posted December 24, 2011 I shot this yesterday morning during the first break in an area-wide fog layer that has plagued Central Washington for more than a week. I needed six Raw exposure layers to get the high dynamic range of this scene properly balanced. Difficult to see at this magnification, the central pool is actually two separate, adjacent thirty-foot pools, slowly rotating in opposite directions with ice rings floating in them. The layer for the pools was a time exposure to capture a sense of the rotation of the strange rings. Thanks for looking. Link to comment
bobby_ho 0 Posted December 25, 2011 An outstanding HDR image! Excellent composition and fantastic colors. Link to comment
whydangle 0 Posted December 25, 2011 Merry Christmas Marc! This is another fine blend!! Link to comment
marc_dilley1 0 Posted December 25, 2011 Bobby: Thanks for the kind words, but this is not HDR. I don't do HDR. Link to comment
bobby_ho 0 Posted December 26, 2011 Hi Marc, I thought you mentioned that:"I needed six Raw exposure layers to get the high dynamic range of this scene properly balanced." Maybe my understanding of HDR is incorrect but what I wanted to say is that this is a very beautiful and natural looking image. Link to comment
marc_dilley1 0 Posted December 28, 2011 I did Bobby, but I put them in a stack in Photoshop, each with a mask, and painted away with various % of black (or you could think white) to hide unwanted areas and achieve the effect I desired. This is an extremely versatile technique that allows infinite on-the-fly correction, including after the file is recalled from a save. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but once the HDR process creates the file, it is a single-layer compressed file from which you cannot go back and tweak the blending. Link to comment
whydangle 0 Posted December 30, 2011 Marc, by definition it is HDR, just not processed by an HDR software. If you need more than one exposure to capture the entire exposure range, then it would be considered HDR because the scene's range of light exceeded the sensor's capability to record that range of exposure in a single frame. I agree with you in that it is not HDR as most know it, but the fact that you processed this by hand makes it even better than HDR. Some refer to the manual process of blending images as EDR, or extended dynamic range. When camera's are able to handle 11 stops of exposure in a single capture, then HDR will begin to become an obsolete acronym! Link to comment
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