I understand, I try to spend as little time in Photoshop as possible myself, I usually succeed in avoiding it entirely.
On June 15, 2019 6:26:50 PM PDT, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >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. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- 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.
