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dpastern
26th of September 2006 (Tue), 19:48
Same Jumper as the one that I posted from the other day, quite like the composition of this shot and it also shows how big this Jumper was (this is uncropped). The 2nd shot is an attempt at stacking, simple two images. I paid attention to keeping framing etc consisentent for both shots to avoid rotational issues during stacking, and slightly cropped it to remove cropping artifacts on the edges of the frame (quite usual Brian and others tell me). Both shots are most probably 1/2 stop underexposed, was tempted to burn in some detail, what do you guys think? I simply dropped contrast by -5 and added +3 of saturation to the image (as well as colour balanced it).

Dave
AirBrontosaurus
26th of September 2006 (Tue), 20:05
The first one is excellent. Jumpers look so cool. great captures
Omri Alon
27th of September 2006 (Wed), 02:10
The first one is excellent. Jumpers look so cool. great captures

I agree :D Too bad about the slight under exposure :( Are you shooting RAW or JPEG?
LordV
27th of September 2006 (Wed), 02:49
Looks like the stack worked well :)
Overall both shots are too dark but any major lightening will burn out the spider detail.
If these were daylight shots have you tried raising the ISO to get more natural light in ?
Brian V.
dpastern
27th of September 2006 (Wed), 06:30
Thanks Chris, Omri & Brian. I'd say that they're half a stop under, and I only shoot RAW (hence it taking me quite a while to process images etc). I can easily up the exposure in DPP - I'm not happy with the image resizing and jpeg compression, lost a lot of detail and resolution in #1 :(

Brian, you've raised a very good thought that I haven't really played with too much. I've been trying to keep the ISO down to 200 with the 1D as the noise starts to creep up at ISO 400 (still quite tolerable though). I might start experimenting with that. At the moment I'm just playing with the flash lighting, I keep meaning to start experimenting with tissue in the sto-fen. The ISO idea is another good one. I suspect some shots will benefit from either approach, given research on what works and when/where and time. Thanks for the suggestion, will definitely take it onboard.

Dave