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The Great Photo Finish: Blending Bracketed Exposures - September 18, 2009
Started September 18, 2009 @ 12:01am by Kel
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Kel
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| The Great Photo Finish: Blending Bracketed Exposures - September 18, 2009 | September 18, 2009 @ 12:01am | In this episode of The Great Photo Finish Craig looks at a high contrast landscape photograph and discusses the following:
Two layer mask techniques for blending two bracketed exposures to extend the dynamic range of the image in the finished file.
Click here to view the video.
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| Who is that masked man on the white horse? | September 18, 2009 @ 3:26pm | I really like these digital darkroom segments especially the way you tie them together with the shooting techniques Craig! Since I started watching you on RV and now TME I've almost quit using selections and gone to blending with the use of the layer mask and soft brushes -- THANK YOU. This method is so much easier for me.
I love this river image!! Your results are really exciting. Great use of the low POV and early light. I can almost hear the banjos from Deliverance  The polarizer info to extend the dynamic range was also new to me.
Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
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Craig
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| Thank you ! | September 18, 2009 @ 3:46pm |
Hey Murry,
Thank you so much for the kind words of support. They mean more than you know.
This is one of my favorite spots on the hooch as we like to call it in Georgia. This particular location has been a gold mine in my personal and commercial work. I have shot jobs at this location for Kodak, The Trust for Public Land, and many developers. In the hey day of my 4x5 color landscape work I had quite a few calendar images published from this location.
In the summer the sun both rises and sets over the river here as the river runs true east and west at this location and has long open views with beautiful shoals. There is a beautiful fog on the river almost every morning of the summer. What more can a landscape photographer ask for:)
Below I have posted a link to a NPS web site that gives directions to this spot for anyone who would like to photograph here.....Craig
http://www.nps.gov/chat/planyourvisit/jonesbridge.htm
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
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| September 18, 2009 @ 3:58pm | Thank you Craig for that great video. It's going to be of lasting value to me. I'm just off to watch it again On that note is there anyway that you might make it downloadable?
Thank you again for sharing....Jim |
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Craig
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| Thank you ! | September 18, 2009 @ 4:34pm |
Hey Jim,
Thank you for being here!!!
There is a decent chance all of our content will become downloadable after the start of next year....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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| September 19, 2009 @ 12:41am | Craig,
This is already downloadable. If you want me to tell people how I will but if you don't want that for some reason, I will not.
Curt
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Steve
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| September 20, 2009 @ 10:34am | Craig - Another great tutorial. I really love these Digital Darkroom episodes. I especially like the way you tie the Photoshop work to photography in the field. And I love the way you approach Photoshop as more of a simple artist's tool than a complex piece of technology with thousands of features and techniques to be mastered.
I have a quick question about your painting technique. Are you primarily using the shift key to paint straight lines between two points? It is hard to tell the way the brush jumps around in the video.
Thanks for these lessons!
-Steve (PPY)
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Craig
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| thank you! | September 20, 2009 @ 1:12pm |
Hey Steve,
Thank you for being here and thank you for the kind words about the video- happy you found it helpful.
I only use the technique you referenced when I need to paint an exact straight line. All of the work I did on this particular mask was done freehand.
Because of the very low frame rate on our videos combined with fast painting for the sake of time it does make it look like I am jumping around very quickly..... but if I was working on the file for print I would be working at a magnification of 100% or higher and working much slower with smaller brushes and building the mask up more slowly. Hope this finds you having a great Sunday....Craig
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” -Soren Kierkegaard
“The secret of life…is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.” - Paulo Coelho, from The Alchemist
PPY
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Jose
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| Thank you | September 23, 2009 @ 12:13pm | Very useful Craig.
I usually use the gradient tool and after that I paint with the brush tool. Great to see how you work with PS.
Thanks for sharing!
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| HDR | September 24, 2009 @ 11:53pm | | CRAIG: WHAT IS YOUR THOUGHT RE: USING HDR (PHOTOMATIX), TAKING 3-4 EXPOSURES 1-2 STOPS APART, TO DO THE SAME THING? EXCELLENT VIDEO, BY THE WAY. |
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April
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| October 2, 2009 @ 8:20pm | I finally get it! It clicked. Thank you so much for this tutorial, and sharing the details of your approach to post-processing.
I remember seeing a video on this image awhile back -- can't find the link? -- and it was daunting to consider a more painterly approach to modifying masks. Now, I'm excited about exploring the subtle possibilities for revealing what we experience in a scene.
April (PPY)
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Tim Gray
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| October 6, 2009 @ 7:27pm | Craig, good tutorial. I particularly liked your technique of "biasing" the mask. A previous poster asked about Photomatix - in my experience it reaquires a very subtle touch to get a natural looking image out of Photomatix, sometimes, I'm ok with that, but if I want a less garish image I use a manual layer mask.
But I'm curious as to why you suggest only 5 stops of dynamic range in a typical digital camera? Even the Canon 500D Rebel has about 8.5 stops at "normal" ISO's. Those lines on the histogram display in the camera aren't stops of DR
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Last Edit: October 6, 2009 @ 7:31pm by Tim Gray | |
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| HDR | November 11, 2009 @ 6:43pm | | Great video. The only thing I add is that I reduce the opacity of the masked layer so that I can see a little of the lower layer and it helps me work the painting into what I want. |
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ansie
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| Thank you! | November 15, 2009 @ 4:37am | | You made me understand the whole process of layer masks and the intelligent use of them very clear - great! |
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