High Resolution/Dynamic Range Landscapes...

[Brian Mosley]

My PAD image for today was taken as a burst of 6 raw shots... dropped into PhotoAcute which increases resolution and dynamic range.

Here's my capture, and a set of zoomed crops to illustrate the image quality.

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Cheers

Brian

 

[oris642]

That's interesting, I haven't heard of this software before. Your 6 shots, did you bracket for EV or depth or field, or...?

 

[Brian Mosley]

No, just a correctly exposed burst of 6 shots. The software will combine bracketed images too though.

Cheers

Brian

 

[Maczero]

Brian

i have PhotoAcute (from a recommendation on the Olympus SLR DP Review forum). However, I have never really got it to work for a series of stacked DNGs. It seems to overface whatever programme I am using (the resulting DNG files are about a bazillion bytes).

Do you use it with jpegs, which I have found work well?

Andrew

 

[Boyzo]

This is beautiful rural country Brian .. I often viewed your landscapes in DPR.
I can see sheep on the hillside and the handrail up to the ruin.

Thanks for the heads-up on the technique.

Small format is always taxed by detailed landscapes (35mm film days) digital it seems offers more

Cheers

John

 

[squeegee]

any chance of posting one of the original non-stacked images so we can see how it compares to with out stacking?

 

[ahuyevshi]

Brian that's pretty cool... How does it resolve high dynamic range?? You would have to expose for the shadows and highlights. This looks like it expanded just the contrast...

 

[cosinaphile]

nice stuff

 

[Brian Mosley]

Thanks squeegee, I'll see if I still have the source set of images to hand. Boris, the shadows become much cleaner and more detailed - which I would say equates to greater dynamic range. You can also bracket and let the software give you a more dramatic dynamic range, but I've had mixed results with highlight artifacts.

Cheers

Brian

 

[pete_t]

Brian, you seem to inhabit the same parts of the Peak District to myself. I was last in Cavedale a couple of weeks ago but the weather was nothing like this. I'll have to go back and try again!

That's a great image of a scene I know well, nice work.

 

[PeterB666]

I went to do some exposure bracketing this evening as I was photgraphing a brightly lit light coloured building at night with a lot of dark stuff around it and didn't want blown out highlights.

I should have read the instruction manual first. For the E-P1, I didn't realise that you either have the camera in sequential mode to get your 3 shots or you take 3 individual shots. I thought you got the 3 exposure bracking automatically from a single press of the shutter in normal mode. Oh well - must try again next time I am at that site.

 

[Bokeh Diem]

Thanks for the link Brian... studying now.

Bokeh D