Comments on: New Shooting Technique http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/new-shooting-technique/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-shooting-technique Fri, 11 May 2012 17:48:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: High Dynamic Range Processing | Photographer’s Blog http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/new-shooting-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-426 High Dynamic Range Processing | Photographer’s Blog Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:01:02 +0000 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=227#comment-426 [...] Recently I’ve started shooting 5 HDR shots, varying the exposure by 1 1/3 stops.   Yes, I know that PhotoMatix Pro, the utility I use exclusively to process HDR, recommends 2 stops.  But I have it on good authority that something less than 2 stops is more optimum.  So I vary the exposure by 1 1/3 stops and adjust the base exposure compensation so that the left end of the most overexposed image histogram falls at least 20% above the minimum.  The same goes for the most under exposed image.  The right end falls at least 20% below the maximum.  In a recent post I explained how I configure the camera shutter and drive to take advantage of mirror lockup.  You can read about it in New Shooting Technique. [...] [...] Recently I’ve started shooting 5 HDR shots, varying the exposure by 1 1/3 stops.   Yes, I know that PhotoMatix Pro, the utility I use exclusively to process HDR, recommends 2 stops.  But I have it on good authority that something less than 2 stops is more optimum.  So I vary the exposure by 1 1/3 stops and adjust the base exposure compensation so that the left end of the most overexposed image histogram falls at least 20% above the minimum.  The same goes for the most under exposed image.  The right end falls at least 20% below the maximum.  In a recent post I explained how I configure the camera shutter and drive to take advantage of mirror lockup.  You can read about it in New Shooting Technique. [...]

]]> By: Roger http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/journal/new-shooting-technique/comment-page-1/#comment-424 Roger Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:05:58 +0000 http://ralphnordstromphotography.com/wordpress/?p=227#comment-424 Good tip, especially when you forget your cable release or it quits working, like mine did recently when i didn't notice the pool of water below me and it ended up getting waterlogged. One this that happens on my Canon 5D is that the timer time when mirror lockup is enabled is much shorter than when it is when mirror lockup is not engaged. I'd guess, as you suggested, 2 seconds with mirror lockup on and 10 seconds with it off. Roger Good tip, especially when you forget your cable release or it quits working, like mine did recently when i didn’t notice the pool of water below me and it ended up getting waterlogged.

One this that happens on my Canon 5D is that the timer time when mirror lockup is enabled is much shorter than when it is when mirror lockup is not engaged. I’d guess, as you suggested, 2 seconds with mirror lockup on and 10 seconds with it off.

Roger

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