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Moher – Time lapse
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28 July 2014
Atlantic summer sunsets more often than not fail to deliver (based on two recent summer visits)….so i shall return to this location in November.
9:30pm – Time lapse and luminosity masks.
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Canon EF17-40mm f/4L USM
Lee 0.9 Proglass ND Filter.each frame – 0.6 sec; f/16; ISO 200
Thks for looking.
Interesting result, looks like a painted sky on top of a photo. Mixed feelings here, I almost want to see the complete image in the same look and feel of the sky.
Dave.
I like this shot but I do feel like the central sky looks the clone brush was used based on the repetition. I would try correct that. Would be good if you could explain the process for using Luminosity masks. Not sure how they work ?
BallistiX – This was my first attempt at trying to blend a time lapse sequence. I have used it successfully with Fireworks – but i need to spend a little more time on it with landscapes. It can produce excellent results if the delay between shots – and the wind speed are correct. I was waiting unsuccessfully for the sun to appear so i just rolled off 30 minutes of a time lapse.
More into here.
http://500px.com/blog/1051/tutorial-time-stack
Ras
I came across luminosity Masks around March this year. Basically what they are used for is to create HDR images from multiple exposures – without using HDR software. Its obviously more time consuming – but i can definitely state – it is the correct way….for many reasons.
In most cases i would use 2 exposures – but occasionally 3 if there are extremely bright or dark areas.Most people would be familiar with gradient masks in Photoshop – but masks can have many areas of varying brights, darks, and all shades in-between to ‘mask’ out or mask in areas of an image…in other words – masks based on the ‘luminosity’ values of an image.
This makes blending multiple exposures much more natural and seamless.While i do still have and often use 3, 6 and 10 stop NDs – i have sold my grad filters when i discovered this technique. More often than not they never worked on scenes with mountains or uneven horizons. For example, you can then blend the very very bright areas of one image with a darker image below it….seamlessly.
The one stop shop for learning and buying tutorials is http://www.photocascadia.com/
There are others I’m sure – but just look at the photographic evidence from all the togs on here.I bought the Developing Workflow + Extending Dynamic Range dual set – and can say they are truly superb.
Sean Bagshaw is the instructor and he has his own YouTube channel for many other free tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/user/mo4nta1nI also got the “Complete guide to Luminosity Masks and Tony Kuyper Actions”. The actions are pretty cheap – and indispensable – as you get all the masks (and lots lots more) in an instant. They form an important part of the above tutorials – as you don’t have to create all the masks before you start.
This is Tony Kypers site.
http://www.goodlight.us/writing/videos/videos-1.htmlHere is Sean introducing the actions & videos.
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The complete guide may not be necessary – as it gets unnecessarily heavy in parts explaining how to create masks – when you can just use the actions….but he explains it start to finish – in detail.
Hope this is informative.
BrenThx for the info Brendan, Luminosity is something I have had on my agenda the past two weeks, but just haven’t had time to sit down and become educated. It has been Jimmy McIntyre who has opened my eyes to Luminosity and I must get stuck in.
Dave
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