Matt Anderson
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Fast6 wrote:
Awesome color and details. Man, that's a lot of images to be smashing together 
I think I like #2 best.
All your focus stacking has made it hard for me to tell that the leaf is even encapsulated! Do you have any versions that make its depth apparent?
I have lots of versions that have a soft blurry surface, and the lower leaf detailed. And your right, the stacking does take away from the perceived depth. I was debating on keeping the depth, or going after the extreme details that existed ( and keeping the sunbursts ). The blurry surface didn't have the specular sunbursts, which completely enamored me when I saw them. So I decided to go for the extreme detail inclusion, which had the sunbursts. To me, they look like stars in a galaxy. I could totally see a different version that embraced more of the depth that existed.
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JimFox wrote:
Hey Matt,
#1 and 3 are my favorites here. A very nice scene, but one I am having a hard time understanding why you bracketed 3 shots? You are using a D800E, I can't see why you needed 3 shots brackets in 2 stop increments, especially not in a scene like this. It's not like you are shooting with a camera that is lacking in DR.
Jim
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aFeinberg wrote:
Crazy awesome. But with the d800 why so much bracketing...feel like this could have easily been 1 shot? Love this man. Great.
aF
Jim/ aF The light-bright 1/4 tones ( zone 7,8,9 ) had very little detail under a normal exposure. The -2 exposure brought back the detail in those highlights. I could have gotten away with a normal exposure and a -2. ( and not using the +2 ) But, what I find when fusing exposures, is a certain amount of "luminosity" is created during the fusion of the tonal values. I don't want to say the "HDR Glow" but in essence, that whats happening, but I make sure the natural tone mapping is exactly that, natural with a hint of luminosity added during the tone mapping process. As for the depth of field, at f/16 on a fullframe 60mm, at the closest distance ( which I was ) the DOF is still paper thin ( approximately 1/4inch or so with some tapering ) So I basically focus on the nearest element, and work my way away with subtle turns in the focus, till I reach the far point. This happen to be 12 or so increments.
To summarize, oh sure, I could have taken one shot, focused on the leaf, underexposed. But I would have lost a great amount of detail and the cool sunbursts, as well as the subtle tonality in the highlights, and, added a stop or two of noise overall to the image. I'm a bit of an overdoer in everything I do, so I'm not sure my personality would let me take just one shot lol.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment everyone, I really appreciate it!
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