of course can, done it before.
hi wk
tks.. wanna save $ on nd grad.. hahaha...
but to be honest, not that much of an outlay is required for nd grad -
ring x 1 at most $15,
filter holder x 1 at most $20
filter tianya x 1 at most $15
$50 is definitely a significant sum, but it pales in comparison to the amount of money anyone spends on other photographic equipment.
of course, it depends on your own personal evaluation - whether you are willing to spend the time to slowly layer blend everything - it is not easy... even after increasing the processing time through shortcuts, i still can spend around 20 minutes to layer blend a straightforward photo (i.e. something at sunset that usually requires 3 photos - rocks, water, sky), and that is assuming that it is a single shot (not pano). for city scenes it will take even longer. i say, $50 is a small price to pay to help reduce occurences of having to layer blend... but that's just my take. you have to make your own decisions, i'm just offering my pov.
glad the mags were useful, allen. maybe when you have digested the information, you can pass it to other friends who are interested in photography.
sfoto - if need be, i will do exposure blending, but more important is that you understand the quality of light, then will make a lot of things easier for you. i have a strong preference for a particular sort of lighting... riotvan will know what that is..
in photoshop, as long as the details are there and you have obtained optimal exposure, you can easily use layers blending options like multiply/screen to balance out exposure, that will be a lot quicker than doing bona fide exposure blending - not to mention you may have movement issues.
the nd110 warms the picture, along with the nd400.
for rear gelatin, like i mentioned to someone else before, good luck, you can't see to compose, you have to precompose, remove the mount and mount the gelatin pack near the sea/water... :bsmilie: like using nd110 already not ley chey enough, still want to do such things.
glad the mags were useful, allen. maybe when you have digested the information, you can pass it to other friends who are interested in photography.
sfoto - if need be, i will do exposure blending, but more important is that you understand the quality of light, then will make a lot of things easier for you. i have a strong preference for a particular sort of lighting... riotvan will know what that is..
in photoshop, as long as the details are there and you have obtained optimal exposure, you can easily use layers blending options like multiply/screen to balance out exposure, that will be a lot quicker than doing bona fide exposure blending - not to mention you may have movement issues.
Pardon for asking, but what do you mean by optimal exposure?
thks
glad the mags were useful, allen. maybe when you have digested the information, you can pass it to other friends who are interested in photography.
sfoto - if need be, i will do exposure blending, but more important is that you understand the quality of light, then will make a lot of things easier for you. i have a strong preference for a particular sort of lighting... riotvan will know what that is..
in photoshop, as long as the details are there and you have obtained optimal exposure, you can easily use layers blending options like multiply/screen to balance out exposure, that will be a lot quicker than doing bona fide exposure blending - not to mention you may have movement issues.
erm. to me it will be bright enough to see all the details, including sky, blurred sea etc:think:
for me i'll do 5 exposures. one for sea, next for horizion, then for clouds. the other 2 will be inbetween.
then must layer mask+ layer blending for me
yep i'll still hold on to them for a while then i'll pass it on thanks loads
Pardon for asking, but what do you mean by optimal exposure?
thks
where the histogram is pushed as far right as possible without highlights being blown.
with proper use of gnd, assuming there is sufficient strength, you should be seeing a very "healthy" histogram with details filled up across the entire horizontal axis. the trouble is that not every scene will correspond to this description, so it is really case by case.
that is best case scenario. usually when i can't do that (mainly because my tianya gnd only has one strength), then i will do layer blending.