do in this episode will look at it take a rushing river
and make it look like blahhh at Obama TV presents exploring photography
to Mark Wallace where you learn innovative techniques
on shooting a wide range of photography here's your host
hi everybody welcome to another episode exploring photography right here on
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everything for photographers like you and me well Here I am
in the jungle outside Mindo Ecuador nectar this
very loud and sorta roaring river here
what I really want to do is capture this river and do it in a way that the water
little really really smooth almost like blast and I do that I got a special
filters on my land only four we dive into that
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shot I've been five major things before we get into those things let me talk to
you about the settings on my camera
I've said this to aperture priority mode I'm shooting at F-twenty
ISO 100 the cameras gonna figure out the shutter speed for me because I'm an
aperture priority mode
now I'm shooting appointee because I wanna make sure I am the Dept the field
to get everything in focus
and I need to make sure I have a really slow shutter speed so this water is
word forgiveness that blassie look alright so we've got all over setting
set up the other thing that I did here as I said my
at my might drive my into a two second delay so
I push the shutter release button it will wait for two seconds and then take
the picture again I wanna make sure that my camera absolutely still
taiwan a shake it with my fingers I've done that as well by the five things I
will start
first with auto exposure bracketing and we talked about that
the previous episode so what I've done here on my auto exposure bracketing
if I did a few test shots of the scene the exposure
the auto exposure is off by about a stop so and anyway exposure compensation to
last one stop and then I'm bracketing
and i'm taking actually 5 photos and I'm bracketing
by plus to stops two-plus two-minus two stops I'm done that the second thing
I've done here
is on the front of my camera I put a neutral density filter
than nd4 filter less than a cutey light coming from I'll in significantly
and that will allow me to have a longer explore exposure
net for the PST columnist writing in neutral density filter the really cut
down the light
and then in front of the lens I have a stupid circular polarizer
what that's going to do here at that a lot a reply actions I can rotate
this circular polarizer less than a cut download reflections
and so my dynamic range will be compressed I mean much more pleasing
image a neutral density filter helps us to cut down a reply actions you can see
that when I rotate this neutral density filter
this is actually bigger than shooting with this camera take a look at this
rock you can clearly see others reflections are cut out
to buy just a minute left and right I can adjust this to taste 3 do some
others reflections or keep them
if i won now all that's left for me to do it take the picture
I want to have that done a minute thrown into my computer take a look and see if
there's any post production that is needed I've got some difficult economic
Rangers I'm really bright spot for some really dark spots fly might need to make
some adjustments
and Photoshop or Lightroom that's also why I am bracketing this shot
I have a lot of latitude in post-production well we've got
everything set up there's no need to delay
let's go ahead and take the bus I'll here are the photos that I created I'm
in Lightroom 5
and we're looking right here these top 5 photos are the bracketed shots this
first shot is the one that I used exposure compensation
missus one-stop overexposed according to the TTL metering but it looks the best
up the series and if I scroll through here this is the
underexposed shot straight there and then we have our
overexposed shots so in that very first shot let me show you some other issues
that we need to correct
the the big issue is we don't have any detail up here on the shoreline this is
sorta lost all of the
shading here and then also we have right at the limit other whites right here and
the other thing that is not so obvious in this picture but if we go to our
overexposed photos I was gonna really overexposed we have been yelling in each
of the corners
that is actually cost by our filters
because with a wide angle lenses actually seeing the edges
our filters and so to correct that either we need to use a different type
of filter system
that encompasses the entire into the lens or we need to use thinner
filters I didn't do either one of those so I have this issue
into the way I decided to correct this I made two different versions
the final image so I began with this image here I thought that was the one
that was the best
exposure so I took that I created a virtual copy
and here is the at the edited version at that shot and so why did I was it over
here to the developed model
all I did is I bumped up the exposure just a little bit
then I played with my highly shadows whites blacks clarity and vibrance
to correct some others things are just some very basic retouching
and the other thing that I did to get rid the vignetting is a simply crop the
image
in so that was the way I got rid of those vignettes in the
in the corners at the images crop it a little bit to get rid of that
and that is the the standard way to fix this
image I wanted to also see what this would look like
if I created in HDR image so I did was I took three the images
the one that was overexposed by one stop this one here if we look at the
except dated that's the one it's exposed accordingly
to the TTL metering a correct exposure and then one that was overexposed by two
stops I took those three
I threw them in Photoshop been created and HDR
image we've already covered HDR images in past episode something to tell you
how I did that
and but let me show you the result and that is this
image right here install put that it full screen
this image I really like it HDR image you can see all in the detail
in the bank up here you can see all the Green Monster really like that
when I was able to do it I was able to mask out the river areas we didn't get
any ghosting other words
the the river wasn't and part at the HTR process I was able to keep that water
and pretty much the way it was at the camera make a look at those back to back
so this is
going backwards this is the normal image you can see that we don't have a lot to
detail in the shadows
and then here's the HDR image is a huge big difference
but I like the ACR image best it's up to you to choose which one you like best
but this is the one that i'm gonna go with I really like that shot using a
better post-production a neutral density filter a circular polarizer
a long exposure we were able to take this rushing river
and turn it into something a little bit more like glass
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