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able123
able123
Inspiring
May 23, 2013
Question

raw etc

  • May 23, 2013
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Well, I saw some hot sunlight coming in window and liked the bounce of orange off the bag on floor..and the other stuff going on ( light on wheel etc ) so I got camera out and shot raw...2nd time doing it.. so am learning..

I did adjust the F stop in preview ( live view of nikon d800 ) and put mirror up cause I was uncertain about vibration of mirror on the shutter spd... I sorta am impatient about dealing with these tests now...but that's only cause I've been moving for the past few weeks and am fed up with a lot of stuff.

However, I am not fed up with having my bicycle in my bedroom... oddly enough.. that is the least of my worries.

Part of why I'm doing this post is to see what adobe does to the image quality ( as I like what I see on computer, but have feeling it's gonna degrade here just due to being interpreted via web and stuff..who knows.. its why I'm posting....so I can look at it and what happened.

Full image

Hot Window sill

Wheel

Orange bag and reflection...

Hmmmm

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    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    May 23, 2013

    Good first step!

    Now, you need to do that experiment again, but put the camera on a tripod (head and legs), and shoot a full bracket of the shot - maybe 5 in all, at about 1/2 f increments.

    Process those RAW Images in a straightforward way, and all the same - do NOT compensate for Exposure.

    Then, in PS, use HDR Merge to combine those 5 Images into one. You will be surprised.

    Enjoy, and keep reporting your progress.

    Hunt

    able123
    able123Author
    Inspiring
    May 23, 2013

    those files at 72dpi are somewhere around 900k each...and this website did a nice job of preserving the overall quality of the images. I have a monitor that is 1440x something..so when I use photoshop and see a large image on my screen it probably looks smaller on higher res monitors.

    Basically Im happy though with how the website reproduced that size image ( byte count, res ).. thats really cool.

    I try to keep the byte count down so I dont flood adobe with tons of bytes and put pressure on their servers.. I dont like taking "advantage" of the free resources I'm using to share stuff with you all...so I think this type size is probably a good size without hurting the image quality I wanna share, and at same time not over doing it by using tons of adobe's server resource.

    ??

    Anyway, it was cool to take the full image, narrow that down to areas I was concerned about ( hot highlight to dark shadow etc )...and just see how it looked.

    AND THEN I HAD A BRAIN STORM !

    I could Proabably crop a nef image ( raw ) and then adjust just THAT part of the image I wanna use ???? How cool is THAT ! ???

    the_wine_snob
    the_wine_snob
    Inspiring
    May 23, 2013

    Your next Ps lesson will be Adjustment>Highlight & Shadow (similar to the one in PrPro).

    First, Open your PSD (after processing in ACR and doing a Save_As PSD), and hit Ctrl+J (Duplicate Layer). In your Ps CS 3, go to Image>Adjustments>Highlight & Shadow. Apply that to the Duplicate Layer, and tweak that, as desired. If not 100% satisfied, then adjust the Opacity of that Duplicate Layer, until you ARE satisfied. I like the Ctrl+J method, as it is non-destructive, unlike just applying Adjustmens>Highlight & Shadow. You can always turn ON/OFF that Duplicate Layer.

    Have fun,

    Hunt

    able123
    able123Author
    Inspiring
    May 23, 2013

    ACK !

    Okay, I gotta do that with new computer and cs6 prod prem. I cant do that bracket stuff and hdr merge now.

    Mouse is struggling ...the single raw image is like 200 + megs...250?.. DONT have that option this minute.

    Just the convert with viewnx takes a pretty long time on mouse.

    I understand what you're suggesting and will do it soon as possible.

    You wont believe what I JUST DID ! WHAT AN IDIOT...

    I changed to the cine lens from zoom ( back to manual focus zeiss from auto focus nikkon, and FORGOT TO FOCUS !...more precisely , pressed shutter down halfway with zeiss , thinking it would focus, and shot it..

    OMG what an IDIOT !

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