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08/30/2006 10:49:27 PM · #1 |
I took a trip to a local town here that sports a 'quaint' looking village square. It looks good at night because of all the old style lighting. however I ran into the usual problems I have shooting at night. Any light sources in the picture blow out everything else, but the lights are damn interesting.
What is the technique for dealing with such shots? A gradient filter? Anyone have some experience with this type of stuff? Picture below is about the best of what I took and I had to stomp on it with photoshop for a half hour to get it looking like it does. but in doing so, while the background is no longer pitch black in relation to the clock, all of the nice ambient light coming out of the clock face has disappeared. The 'mood' of the scene is gone.
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08/30/2006 10:51:23 PM · #2 |
| Tripod. RAW. Shoot for the lights and then bring up the shadows in post. |
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08/30/2006 10:55:23 PM · #3 |
| HDR, multiple exposures, bracket then combine in PS HDR. |
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08/30/2006 10:56:44 PM · #4 |
| Yeah, the HDR thing would be good. Some scenes just won't cooperate though, it kind of sucks. |
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08/30/2006 10:59:32 PM · #5 |
| What I did below is legal in basic. HDR I can play with, but I was hoping for some sort of magic that would still fit within the rules here. I think I'm going to by a graduated filter and see how it goes. All would be well if the lights wouldn't overexpose. |
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08/30/2006 11:09:02 PM · #6 |
| F2.3 and shutter speed is your problem. |
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08/31/2006 12:05:15 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by faidoi:
F2.3 and shutter speed is your problem. |
Slower shutter speed and the clock face overexposed. What am I missing? |
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08/31/2006 12:16:01 AM · #8 |
No adjustments other than contrast masking. Somewhere in between should work. Shadow/Highlight in CS2 is basic legal and should work fine.
Robt.
Message edited by author 2006-08-31 00:16:22.
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08/31/2006 12:33:23 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by routerguy666:
What I did below is legal in basic. HDR I can play with, but I was hoping for some sort of magic that would still fit within the rules here. I think I'm going to by a graduated filter and see how it goes. All would be well if the lights wouldn't overexpose. |
hdr is within the rules as long as you don't combine two pictures... just one raw file processed twice.
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