Larry Colen wrote: >Postmaster wrote on 6/13/19 6:41 AM: >> [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Very nice. >>> >>> Were each of the shots underexposed and you stacked them to reduce the >>> noise? >> >> No, noise wasn't an issue (shooting at ISO 100). It's just that the >> strong sunlight coming through openings in the trees above created hot >> spots that would otherwise have spoiled the shot. By combining 5 >> photos (each of which had hot spots in different locations due to >> movement of sun and clouds) I was able to even out the exposure. > >Ah, thanks. I meant that noise would be an issue if you underexposed by >a bunch of stops so as not to blow out the highlights, but if the >highlights move around, that would also solve the problem.
I probably could have achieved the same result or better by stacking the photos and then manually masking out the hot spots. But my goal for nature photography is to spend as little time in Photoshop as possible. The stack and statistics/mean technique is much faster and easier. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
