Photo Critique

[Jimmy Higgins]

I find that overcast skies are brighter than blue skies and thus more easily burn out. If you took a short exposure to keep the sky from being saturated you could combine that with the longer exposure on the rest of the scene and get a nice balance.

Borrowed gear, no tripod.

But how long was the shot? 1/250? That should be doable while holding.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Borrowed gear, no tripod.

But how long was the shot? 1/250? That should be doable while holding.

I would end up most likely changing the zoom a bit setting up the second shot (the lens had some pretty major creep if not basically horizontal) and that would screw up the attempt to combine them.

 

[Shadowy Man]

But how long was the shot? 1/250? That should be doable while holding.

I would end up most likely changing the zoom a bit setting up the second shot (the lens had some pretty major creep if not basically horizontal) and that would screw up the attempt to combine them.

Some of the HDR software is pretty good at combining, so it's possible that small focus shifts could be corrected for. It's worth a try.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

I would end up most likely changing the zoom a bit setting up the second shot (the lens had some pretty major creep if not basically horizontal) and that would screw up the attempt to combine them.

Some of the HDR software is pretty good at combining, so it's possible that small focus shifts could be corrected for. It's worth a try.

The problem wasn't focus, but creep of the zoom. The lens was creepier than His Flatulence at the Miss America pageant. AFIAK you can't combine images with different zoom.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Some of the HDR software is pretty good at combining, so it's possible that small focus shifts could be corrected for. It's worth a try.

The problem wasn't focus, but creep of the zoom. The lens was creepier than His Flatulence at the Miss America pageant. AFIAK you can't combine images with different zoom.

You might want to try it. Since the perspective doesn't change, it's just a scaling issue that you could eliminate by cropping.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Some of the HDR software is pretty good at combining, so it's possible that small focus shifts could be corrected for. It's worth a try.

The problem wasn't focus, but creep of the zoom. The lens was creepier than His Flatulence at the Miss America pageant. AFIAK you can't combine images with different zoom.

Sorry.. I meant to type "focal length shifts", not "focus shifts".