Anyone know how to do this??
Sep 30, 2012 15:17:28 #
something odd here, plainly two very different exposures but you list 1/2000 at f5,6 then 1/1000 at f9 (lets call that the traditional f8)
with no sensor speed change, they are the same amount of light transmission, so the pix should have been near identical.
Please revisit the exif files and check.
flash; you would need MGM movie set up to light that foreground, even big system flashes diffused and held back to balance ambient light would need many many strobes, virtually impossible.
Graded filters beloved by many; these are graded usually top to bottom so if yoy use one with the dark grey bit at the top and the clear bit at the bottom they can help, but only if the horizon is fairly flat. Your Gazebo pokes up into the sky, so it too would be unnaturally darkened at the top.
What you can do is mount on a hefty tripod and take two to seven shots all with different shutter speeds at the same aperture (and focus) - then you can load all the pix into a 'Lightroom' type program on the PC, and construct a High Dynamic Range (HDR) composite shote. Presto, sky correct, gazebo correct, foreground correct. Trouble is, most HDR shots look bl**dy awful, not natural, they need expert light touch of some hours in front of the PC if they are to be believable. Hunt out some HDR stuff on here and Flickr; many will make you ill.
Last, shoot in 'RAW' and convert most carefully to very very gently recover shadows and also then highlights. Provided your exposure preserved most of the sky (dark gazebo) you'll be amazed how much shadow can be pulled back out. So you expose like we used to for slides; get the light areas right and to hell with the shadows. On slides of course we couldn't recover shadows later, now you can.
So, always shoot in 'RAW'
with no sensor speed change, they are the same amount of light transmission, so the pix should have been near identical.
Please revisit the exif files and check.
flash; you would need MGM movie set up to light that foreground, even big system flashes diffused and held back to balance ambient light would need many many strobes, virtually impossible.
Graded filters beloved by many; these are graded usually top to bottom so if yoy use one with the dark grey bit at the top and the clear bit at the bottom they can help, but only if the horizon is fairly flat. Your Gazebo pokes up into the sky, so it too would be unnaturally darkened at the top.
What you can do is mount on a hefty tripod and take two to seven shots all with different shutter speeds at the same aperture (and focus) - then you can load all the pix into a 'Lightroom' type program on the PC, and construct a High Dynamic Range (HDR) composite shote. Presto, sky correct, gazebo correct, foreground correct. Trouble is, most HDR shots look bl**dy awful, not natural, they need expert light touch of some hours in front of the PC if they are to be believable. Hunt out some HDR stuff on here and Flickr; many will make you ill.
Last, shoot in 'RAW' and convert most carefully to very very gently recover shadows and also then highlights. Provided your exposure preserved most of the sky (dark gazebo) you'll be amazed how much shadow can be pulled back out. So you expose like we used to for slides; get the light areas right and to hell with the shadows. On slides of course we couldn't recover shadows later, now you can.
So, always shoot in 'RAW'
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