On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:51:40 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>Even more ideally, if you are on a tripod, you shoot two or more
>exposures at the original scene, so that you have ideal exposures for
>all the important areas. I've only very rarely done this, and it is
>very tedious to combine in Photoshop, but the contrasts involved were so
>great (about 15 stops, as I recall), that I had no choice.
For anyone whose interested in macro photography, rather than light
balancing, multiple shots can be a good technique too to make up for
the loss of DoF. For example, a 1:1 of a flower with a trumpet (no,
it's not musical, that's a description <g>). I've done that and taken
five shots, using a tripod, all from the same position, but with the
focus set on different depths of the flower. This results in a number
of photos which, if combined, give you a great DoF all the way down
the flower head. This is, IMHO, one of the great techniques you can
use with PS which is extremely difficult done any other way.
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