Try this with a grad! Stick your rectangular piece of plastic rubbish.
This is me in a huge sea cave. Apparently when I went in there some woman said to her husband looking at my camera bag, "Look at that, he's spending the night in there Reg"
I took eight shots to cope with the ludicrous light range that went from 1/250th sec to 1sec. Tripod flat on the floor to get some foreground and f16 to keep everything sharp focused hyperfocally.
Get home and load 5 of the eight into CS2. I made a protective mask which I turned into an inverted selection to protect the cave entrance and slowly blended 5 images together working from the centre to the extreme edges. Then vary the opacity of each blend to balance.
The shadows are featureless on purpose; I have a 1sec exposure that could pull all this info into the shot if I wanted, but lets stop and consider something, its a cave -
When I was in there even though my eyes were adjusted, the cave shadows were jet black. When doing this type of image it is important to ensure you remember what things look like as its so easy to overcook it all back at the ranch, thinking that in our modern socially acceptable world that clipped shadows = a bad result. Not the case.
EOS 5D, 17-40 f4L, 5 exposures 1/250th to 1sec ISO 100
Superb David. Great skills and cheers for the tech details. SUprised there's no coke cans and rubbish or did you take your broom with you Must find time to come out with you sometime if you're still up for it.
Absolutely stunning result and well done on the processing - I agree with your view on the shadows - just because you can get detail doesn't mean you always should
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14 repliesThis is me in a huge sea cave. Apparently when I went in there some woman said to her husband looking at my camera bag, "Look at that, he's spending the night in there Reg"
I took eight shots to cope with the ludicrous light range that went from 1/250th sec to 1sec. Tripod flat on the floor to get some foreground and f16 to keep everything sharp focused hyperfocally.
Get home and load 5 of the eight into CS2. I made a protective mask which I turned into an inverted selection to protect the cave entrance and slowly blended 5 images together working from the centre to the extreme edges. Then vary the opacity of each blend to balance.
The shadows are featureless on purpose; I have a 1sec exposure that could pull all this info into the shot if I wanted, but lets stop and consider something, its a cave -
When I was in there even though my eyes were adjusted, the cave shadows were jet black. When doing this type of image it is important to ensure you remember what things look like as its so easy to overcook it all back at the ranch, thinking that in our modern socially acceptable world that clipped shadows = a bad result. Not the case.
EOS 5D, 17-40 f4L, 5 exposures 1/250th to 1sec ISO 100
Cheers
JohnR
absolutely superb. completely cracking image. no pun intended.
Dave
David
I'm going to be an awkward geezer - it need the very slightest CCW rotation - 0.73 degrees to be precise
A superb image and well worth the effot. The attention to the detail in the dark areas as been very well processed.
Fanastic seascape!
Excellent post processing too!
Greetings,
Jeroen Stel