Black Card Technique...how interesting!
May 29, 2012 14:05:43 #
I stumbled across this and thought it was very interesting; it's called the Black Card Technique and it's for getting images evenly exposed without using HDR, image combining, bracketing or graduated ND filters.
Bascially you have a black/dark colored card. You meter for the light part (sky) meter for the dark part (land) and then you use a cable release with your dark card over the part of the image that you want to tone down...(for example the sky) and you hold it over that part (feathering it a bit to keep from getting a distinct line) and at the appropriate time, you take the card away and continue to expose and what should happen is you get a shot where the sky and the land are both properly exposed!
http://hanjies.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-card-photography-part-i.html
Bascially you have a black/dark colored card. You meter for the light part (sky) meter for the dark part (land) and then you use a cable release with your dark card over the part of the image that you want to tone down...(for example the sky) and you hold it over that part (feathering it a bit to keep from getting a distinct line) and at the appropriate time, you take the card away and continue to expose and what should happen is you get a shot where the sky and the land are both properly exposed!
http://hanjies.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-card-photography-part-i.html
May 29, 2012 14:21:03 #
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May 30, 2012 13:46:38 #
An interesting concept. I used to do the same thing in the darkroom. (Burning and dodging.)
I would really like to see a few examples of what you are doing with the black card.
P.S. I didn't read far enough. I just went to your site. It looks like I will have to experiment for myself. Thank you.
I would really like to see a few examples of what you are doing with the black card.
P.S. I didn't read far enough. I just went to your site. It looks like I will have to experiment for myself. Thank you.
May 30, 2012 17:05:05 #
Great idea ( from the old days of burning and dodging in the darkroom)
It will take a few tries to get it right, but it is a wonderful technique
It will take a few tries to get it right, but it is a wonderful technique
May 30, 2012 18:01:29 #
Jan 9, 2013 12:53:52 #
Backpacker
Loc: Missouri
After reading about this a while back I went out and tried it. Couldn't find a black card at that particular moment so the neoprene camera strap was substituted. Using a polarizer and small aperture to slow things down I finally got the shutter to about 1/5th sec. A tripod, wireless remote, and two hands on the camera strap were used. Wasn't easy but I did get 2 out of about a dozen that were close to what I was after. I am thinking maybe a .9ND filter will slow things down and success rate should go up?
As is.
Camera Strap to slow.
Timing is getting better.
Jan 9, 2013 18:36:02 #
Backpacker wrote:
After reading about this a while back I went out a... (show quote)
Well...I'm not sure what your settings were but generally people use this for sunsets or sunrises and things like that.
I guess using an 9 stop ND would work but if I had to do that I'd rather just blend two exposures :)
Feb 5, 2013 11:54:27 #
rpavich wrote:
I stumbled across this and thought it was very int... (show quote)
Very intersting ! Thanks Rpavich for sharing this with us. I have been wanting an ND filter but didn't want to spend the $$ I will try this method.
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