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Lot's of fun experimenting with this lens

Started May 4, 2019 | User reviews thread
lawny13 Veteran Member • Posts: 3,132
Re: Lot's of fun experimenting with this lens

Lost99999 wrote:

He Lawny,

can you also post one of the shots with shawdows perhaps mildly pulled up ?

i think the bracketing does not help to show off sharpness, color tone, rendering, etc of your top quality lens.

Also, to my taste, this bracketed and photoshopped picture is a bit over the top... colors are no longer real and texture of different surfaces is gone.

Myself i find it very difficult to ‘edit’ pictures in post processing and still keep them ‘real’.

Regards,

But it is not my image, so I don’t have the originals to do this with either. But it is a rather simple ordeal.

Take the original image and adjust exposure for the highlights, and being the shadows up a bit to compensate.

Make a virtual copy of the original, and adjust exposure for the shadows (realistically, approximately how you might think it should be in an image, so we are not aiming for a flat obvious HDR image). Bring down the highlights.

Export the two images to PS and do a HDR combination. Tweak the image further.

The above can can be done with multiple virtual copies with varying exposure tweaks. For a scene like this I would to at least 3 virtual copies to give PS more to work with (so one for shadows, one for highlights and one for microbes). 2 additional ones around the midtones might also improve things ending up with a total of 5 images.

End of the day you just need to play around. Remember though we seem to have better DR than a camera, the fact is we have a pretty powerful computer attached to our eyes (the brain) and we are constantly scanning what we see. We don’t see the world in a static way. For this reason we see the world in higher DR as well as a contrasty way. So when we look at a high DR scene with our eyes, sure we see detail in the shadows and they appear to be brighter than in our images, but if you look at a scene as a whole the contrast still comes across. That is what one should aim for when doing HDR. A certain level or realism when looking at a scene as a whole rather than focusing on an image in parts. iMHO

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