Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Hi, MtnMan,
I missed that your last question had not been answered.
"3. The last exchange suggests you agree that decreasing shutter speed isn't going to create sharper images with longer lenses. Did I get that right?"

The last exchange resulted from a poorly conceived and even more poorly worded example trying to point to the folly of purposefully not using the maximum available DR. That particularly confusing example has been deleted from the tutorial.

Bottom line? A longer exposure is not, of itself, expected to result in a sharper image with a long lens...in fact, the opposite is expected due to long-lens magnification of camera or subject movement. However, if that longer exposure is a possibility provided by using the camera's full available DR as well as by assuring improved camera/lens stability by using a monopod or tripod, then hurrah for EBTR!

All the examples were intended to point out the folly of not using the maximum available dynamic range of stops of exposure.

I can only conclude that several brain farts were involved in composing the original statement, and can but hope that I've paid adequate penance with sackcloth and ashes.

My hope is that readers will give EBTR a fair try to be able to decide if it is a technique that they feel worthy of adding to their "exposure tool box" and I do regret that the possibility of a misunderstanding was inadvertently introduced into the tutorial.

Best regards,

Dave

runakid Loc: Shelbyville, TN

Just what I wanted to know . I recently ordered Elements and will try that first.

Thanks

Uuglypher Loc: South Dakota (East River)

Hi, Runakid,
Elements and ACR should give you an excellent start and serve you for a goodly time...until you get to the point that you need to get into PS.

ACR is really an exceptional app with which you likely will be able to do ALL your necessary post processing of 95% or more of your images. It would really pay to get one of the good manuals on Photoshop ( The ones by Martin Evening or byWeinmann and Lourekas are excellent)because they also contain excellent guides to getting as much as possible out of Adobe Camera Raw.

I suggest that you get fully comfortable with ACR before worrying about processes offered by Elements unless you absolutely need them. The reason is that everything you do in ACR in linear processing....which means it or TOTALLY REVERSIBLE....which is not the case with Elements or Photoshop.

It's especially important to do ALL your tonal and color control work in ACR, otherwise you'll quickly lose tonal and color data...never to be recovered. If you move out of ACR for some work with layers and masking, and then decide you want to alter brightness, contrast,..any tonal work, or alter any aspect of colors and color temperature...take it back into ACR to do it.

And if you decide to take full advantage of your camera's full dynamic range beyond what it offers for JPEG exposures, you'll be amazed at the magnificent job ACR can do with your raw image data captures!

Best regards,

Dave

runakid Loc: Shelbyville, TN

Thanks- don't exactly understand at this time but I will shoot some junk to play around with first.