I appreciated you sharing the details of your aperture stack, Fred - I tried it out on the weekend down on our central North Island volcanoes with my 21mm Ultron, using exposures of F/8 and F/16, and after combining in Zerene Stacker, I ended up with much better foreground detail - very nice!
John
ps - added later - I also used the Sony so-called 'hdr' app here to hold back the sky, rather than a physical graduated neutral density filter - worked very well once I became familiar with its settings.
navmannz wrote:
I appreciated you sharing the details of your aperture stack, Fred - I tried it out on the weekend down on our central North Island volcanoes with my 21mm Ultron, using exposures of F/8 and F/16, and after combining in Zerene Stacker, I ended up with much better foreground detail - very nice!
John
Look great!
I prefer this instead of focus stacking because it's fast and effective. Zerene is awesome but sometimes overkill for only two images. Usually I just bring both images to Photoshop as layers and create a layer mask showing the sharper foreground from the smaller aperture capture. The best of this technique is that most of your image will be at the sweet spot of your lens.
It looks like our "winter wonderland" soon will be ruined by rain, so yesterday I took another walk. I started the same as the other day (so you'll probably recognize some subjects/places), but once down in the valley I decided to walk further and explore a small road that follows the river out to the fjord. The light wasn't too exciting and it was hard to leave the road because of the snow, but I found some nice locations that I'll explore by bicycle in spring. Lots of birds too. Great to have more options so close to home.
pizdets17 wrote:
Is this shot in crop mode then? Looks great!
Yes and No!
The built in lens hood is removed mechanically and permanently so that I can see more on the image than the APS-C crop. I took the picture in FF-Mode and cropped the areas away that I didn't need. The field of view is still larger than the original APS-C field of view and more than 180°. You have easily your legs on the image, if you don't shoot carefully. You get the most out of it, if you crop the image in square aspect ratio.
HelenaN wrote:
It looks like our "winter wonderland" soon will be ruined by rain, so yesterday I took another walk. I started the same as the other day (so you'll probably recognize some subjects/places), but once down in the valley I decided to walk further and explore a small road that follows the river out to the fjord. The light wasn't too exciting and it was hard to leave the road because of the snow, but I found some nice locations that I'll explore by bicycle in spring. Lots of birds too. Great to have more options so close to home.
Another great set of minimal winter landscapes Helena!
Beautiful palette of bluish greys with dashes of red.
Particularly like the repeating patterns of horses, fence posts and houses in #3
