General Photography Questions Megathread v4 - Don't Listen to Any of These Freaks

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evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

you can also open up each of the images as layers in photoshop, use your inside-metered image as the background layer, then mask off the outside-metered image so that it is only visible on the windows. since the windows are probably a fairly simple shape that may work better, photomatix will probably leave some halos.

# ¿ Oct 7, 2009 05:21

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 11:52

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

JaundiceDave posted:

If anyone wants to try out Lightroom, the beta of Lightroom 3 is up for free download on adobe, and will last until April 2010. http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom3/

Be careful, it is a beta so it might do horrible things*, and they disabled some stuff, such as Luminance noise reduction. definitely keep lightroom 2 around and use that for important stuff

*probably not

# ¿ Oct 23, 2009 20:06

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

I just made a new catalog and imported a few folders to play with. I use .xmps though. It won't even touch your lr2 catalog so I wouldn't worry too much.

# ¿ Oct 25, 2009 05:47

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

Cyberbob posted:

this might sound strange, but I'm making a greyscale zone card for myself..

Would it make a big difference if the dynamic range that was covered was in the very low end of shutter speeds?

I did some test shots last night and zone 0 was 30 seconds, all the way up to zone 10 which was about 1/30 IIRC.

Would you expect a greycard to look any different if the shutter speed ranged in that range, compared to doing it on a bright sunny day where zone 0 had to be done at 1/4000, covering a completely different range of shutter speeds?

It shouldn't matter, assuming that zone 5 is 18% percent or whatever and you're metering off zone 5 and the rest of the zones are getting the same light.

30 seconds and 1/30th are about 10 stops apart so I think you're doing it right. Did zone 5 meter at 1"?

# ¿ Oct 29, 2009 19:01

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

Spectracide posted:

I used to think ISO 100 was the "best" ISO. Now, it seems most high-end cameras start at 200. Can someone explain this to me? I am thinking it has something to do with the switch from CCD to CMOS sensors.
I skimmed the Wikipedia article and found this relevant bit:

Is a sensor that "begins" at 200 really worse than one that starts at 100?

You really can't generalize, it just depends on what sensor and what body you're talking about. Most Canons go to ISO 100, most Nikons start at 200.

# ¿ Nov 3, 2009 07:35

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

Ansel Adams did seminars and wrote books!

# ¿ Nov 13, 2009 17:41

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 11:52

evensevenone: May 12, 2001; Glass is a solid.

Dr. Cogwerks posted:

I wouldn't show them intentionally, but it'd be something they'd find if they googled my name. Probably not really worth it either way though - I need to start getting some shows lined up for this year before it's too late, but a police station is a pretty weird place to do that.

They won't Google your name. Even if they do they aren't going to investigate.

# ¿ May 19, 2011 17:46

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