I wish my elph had auto bracketing

[kimberkit]

My first experience with combining exposures (and I did this trying very hard to keep the camera in the same place so I'd have the ability to combine properly):

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[addienfaemne.livejournal.com]

gorgeous! tell me about multiple exposures?

[greyduck.livejournal.com]

Whoah. Nicely done. How?

[kimberkit.livejournal.com]

to both you and Jessica - sometimes, esp. at sunset/sunrise, the range of colors in a landscape is too big for the camera to capture. So I took one overexposed shot, which got the light right for the buildings, and I took one underexposed shot, which got the light right for the sky.

Then I pasted the dark version on top of the lighter version in photoshop. I made sure everything was lined up properly by lowering the opacity and checking to make sure all the edges made sense. Then I went the excessive-work route, and did layer->add layer mask->hide all, and used the paintbrush to paint the lighter areas back in to being darker, being extra-careful to get all the edges right, around the buildings. (Obviously, I used larger and smaller brushes). I painted some of the areas in the water that seemed too light... and presto.

[kimberkit.livejournal.com]

Of course, a real photographer with a real lens would use a graduated ND filter, (http://www.singh-ray.com/grndgrads.html) but a real photographer also has an SLR camera and $100-$300 to blow on a filter.

[icetulip.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

phantastic picture!

[jul3z.livejournal.com]

pretty!

[drlynch.livejournal.com]

is it just me or is there something funny about the water?

beautiful, however.

[kimberkit.livejournal.com]

It's that poisonous new york water! ;)

Just kidding - I tried to dim it down a little in curves, but it didn't translate very well from pshop to the web somehow.

[simonbillenness.livejournal.com]

Brooklyn Bridge photo!

Ann and I took some similar - albeit lower quality - pictures 18 months ago when we were in town for the Amnesty USA annual conference.

Pictures from the Golden Gate are better. That bridge no barrier in the way, which is great for photography ... but not so good at preventing suicides.

[choirbean.livejournal.com]

That's.... awesome. Wow.

[dj-bennyb.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. I love the Brooklyn Bridge! I think it is by far, the jewel of American engineering, and I had the God-given privilege of crossing it on foot last year.

BTW, I happened upon your LJ via your comment to my comment on addienfaemne's LJ. How would you feel if I "friended" you? Pictures of the Brooklyn Bridge plus listing Maggie Atwood as an interest tells me that yours would be an interesting LJ to read.