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 02/17/2007 07:25:04 PM · #1
Can you guys show me how to fix this picture. I am using photoshop elements. Is this a good picture of fire and if not what changes to my settings would you make.





I just added another image for review.
I just added the original to compare to the redish color.

Thanks Jeremy

Message edited by author 2007-02-17 21:05:47.
 02/17/2007 08:42:23 PM · #2
I really like the first one. The difficulty is that the flames are so bright compared to the other items (logs). I do not think that is actually a problem with this picture though. If your goal was to see the logs better, you need more light from another source on them. The tones you have are very natural and it has a very comfortable and comforting look to it. Composition is much better than the second one.
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 02/17/2007 08:44:33 PM · #3
Fire is pretty hard to capture due to its HUGE dynamic range. I like the first one better as there is less exposure and you get to see more details of the flames but lose a lot in the shadows. The second one gives more information as it seems to have been exposed longer (slower shutter speed?) which blows out the flames more.

Fire would make a perfect HDR study if you could "pause" the darn stuff.

As Jeffry said ... just a tad of fill light might help you out ... perhaps even with a bit of redish acetate or something used in front of it as a colour filter for said fill light?

Message edited by author 2007-02-17 20:47:55.
 02/17/2007 08:47:24 PM · #4
Originally posted by Greetmir:

Fire would make a perfect HDR study if you could "pause" the darn stuff.

It works quite well from a single shot, saved in different exposure levels.
 02/17/2007 08:49:24 PM · #5
Originally posted by Brad:
Originally posted by Greetmir:

Fire would make a perfect HDR study if you could "pause" the darn stuff.

It works quite well from a single shot, saved in different exposure levels.


... alas, not all of us own cameras with RAW capabilities ...
02/17/2007 08:51:21 PM · #6
Open the shot in PS, alter the exposure by bumping up & down 1EV or 2, saving each for web so the EXIF is stripped out, then assembling as an HDR.
Do it with jpegs all the time.
 02/17/2007 09:07:20 PM · #7
4-exposure hdr, (2-stops up, 1-stop down plus original) tone mapped, copied and pasted the center part of the flame on the original back over the tone mapped version, as the hdr conversion left it with far to much contrast.
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Didn't do much else and was a real quick edit to re-post here, ignoring noise & details and such.

Message edited by author 2007-02-17 21:08:41.
 02/17/2007 09:33:08 PM · #8
D'oh! ... I never thought of stripping the EXIFS ... I always got "There is not enough dynamic range difference in these photos to create an HDR image" (or some such error message) ... I see now why ... it was reading the EXIF ...

THANKS!

Thanks a LOT!

Off to rescue a WHACK of shots! :)

Message edited by author 2007-02-17 21:37:39.
 02/18/2007 10:32:59 AM · #9
anyone else
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