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#71
Airports / Bases / USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)
Last post by Matt Ottosen - May 09, 2024, 06:01:34 PMOn December 13, 2022, I was able to take part in a 24-hour, Distinguished Visitor (DV)/media embark aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). I boarded the ship pierside in San Diego at Naval Air Station North Island, and flew off the next day onboard a Bell/Boeing CMV-22B Osprey. I was able to see much of the ship, and also spend many hours taking photos on their active flight deck. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget!
#72
Airports / Bases / Re: USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)
Last post by Matt Ottosen - May 09, 2024, 05:09:59 PMOn July 6, 2023, I was able to take part in a 24-hour, Distinguished Visitor (DV)/media embark aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). I boarded the ship pierside in San Diego at Naval Air Station North Island, and flew off the next day onboard a Bell/Boeing CMV-22B Osprey. I was able to see much of the ship, and also spend many hours taking photos on their active flight deck. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget!
#73
Critique / Re: Hot Spots
Last post by Jay Beckman - April 11, 2022, 11:20:14 PMTerrific conversion and a very dramatic image...
#74
Critique / Re: Hot Spots
Last post by Brian Corbett - April 11, 2022, 08:47:10 PMTossed it in to Silver Efex Pro 2 and came up with this. It's not so bad, I guess.
#75
Airports / Bases / Re: Phoenix Sky Harbor Interna...
Last post by tajmahal250 - April 11, 2022, 09:19:23 AMQuote from: RLGUESSAZ on April 10, 2022, 05:46:18 PM
SWA 737-Max 8 about to touch down after its second ever revenue flight PDX - PHX shot at 1/30th shutter speed
1/30? Nice. I'm lucky if I can get anything below 1/100. Lol.
#76
Critique / Re: Hot Spots
Last post by Jay Beckman - April 10, 2022, 11:24:27 PMUnfortunately, there are just situations where the contrast ratio is so great that no film or sensor is able to hold everything in one shot.
Your options are:
1) Bracket and Blend ? Shoot a series of images starting with one that holds the shadows OR the highlights and then works up/down toward the other extreme. Then in post you layer them up and use masks to blend all the exposures together.
2) High Dynamic Range (HDR) If you?re faced with an exposure situation requiring 15 stops but your camera can only handle 12, then you shoot one frame that holds the shadows up to where in clips and one that holds the highlights down to where the blacks crush. You can blend them manually in PS or feed them to dedicated HDR software to figure out where the crossover point is located.
3) Identify that you?re in a contrast ratio situation your sensor can?t handle, admit that you don?t want to go through the hassle of building a Frankenframe in post and ?settle? for something ?artsy?
4) Wait until the light isn?t so harsh. Twice a day the contrast ratio is essentially a straight line as night gives way to day and then as day gives way to night. This means there are times each day when the whites and blacks (highlights and shadows) aren?t an extreme number of stops apart.
In the earliest days of digital, you often had to expose for the shadows and let the highlights go because any attempt to recover shadow detail meant instant noise and other funky artifacts in the dark areas. The newest sensors though have turned that thinking on its head. With the R5, I will expose for the highlights and I can safely push the shadows 3, 4 and even 5 stops in some cases. It?s a whole new ballgame!
Your options are:
1) Bracket and Blend ? Shoot a series of images starting with one that holds the shadows OR the highlights and then works up/down toward the other extreme. Then in post you layer them up and use masks to blend all the exposures together.
2) High Dynamic Range (HDR) If you?re faced with an exposure situation requiring 15 stops but your camera can only handle 12, then you shoot one frame that holds the shadows up to where in clips and one that holds the highlights down to where the blacks crush. You can blend them manually in PS or feed them to dedicated HDR software to figure out where the crossover point is located.
3) Identify that you?re in a contrast ratio situation your sensor can?t handle, admit that you don?t want to go through the hassle of building a Frankenframe in post and ?settle? for something ?artsy?
4) Wait until the light isn?t so harsh. Twice a day the contrast ratio is essentially a straight line as night gives way to day and then as day gives way to night. This means there are times each day when the whites and blacks (highlights and shadows) aren?t an extreme number of stops apart.
In the earliest days of digital, you often had to expose for the shadows and let the highlights go because any attempt to recover shadow detail meant instant noise and other funky artifacts in the dark areas. The newest sensors though have turned that thinking on its head. With the R5, I will expose for the highlights and I can safely push the shadows 3, 4 and even 5 stops in some cases. It?s a whole new ballgame!
#77
Critique / Hot Spots
Last post by Brian Corbett - April 10, 2022, 10:34:54 PMSo dealing with them is my weakness. Never been good at it, so I found this image of a C-17 I took a couple years back and decided to tinker.
I knocked the tail and fuselage back a bit via exposure and a bit of Curves, but they still seem hot. Any suggestions? I'm using CS5 with the NIK collection, by the way. Yep... Old school and cheap!
Thanks!
I knocked the tail and fuselage back a bit via exposure and a bit of Curves, but they still seem hot. Any suggestions? I'm using CS5 with the NIK collection, by the way. Yep... Old school and cheap!
Thanks!
#78
Airports / Bases / Re: Phoenix Sky Harbor Interna...
Last post by RLGUESSAZ - April 10, 2022, 05:46:18 PMSWA 737-Max 8 about to touch down after its second ever revenue flight PDX - PHX shot at 1/30th shutter speed
#79
Airports / Bases / Re: Phoenix Sky Harbor Interna...
Last post by tajmahal250 - April 05, 2022, 07:06:51 PM
[/url] #80
Airports / Bases / Re: Scottsdale Airport (KSDL)
Last post by tajmahal250 - April 03, 2022, 06:39:44 PMMilitary at SDL is always a plus.
[/url]SPEEDY SCOTTSDALE SUPER by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr[/img]
[/url]SPEEDY SCOTTSDALE SUPER by Thomas "Taj" Backus, on Flickr[/img]