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Old 24-09-2014, 03:23 PM
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ETTR as foreground lighting

Hi All

While out the other night amongst the stars I managed to get out in a nice canola field, unfortunately no moon light to make it pop like the Gibbs classic, however I occidentally managed to shoot a shot with the canon 6D ISO25600 for 25 seconds. (I normally do short framing shots at the high ISO and forgot to reset the exposure time)

Anyway while looking at the results it got me thinking and thought I might get you all thinking as well. Could the expose to the right that some use in light polluted areas (Sumitra) be a good way to light a foreground when no moon is available.

So I managed to have 3 shots with 3 different ways of dealing with the foreground (please excuse the rough masking but its more to open up discussion)

Its hard to see in the 3 shots here
1 - 25 sec, f2.8 ISO25600 (sky masked and exp dropped 3 stops)
2 - 25 sec, f2.8 ISO3200 (lit with an LED light with warm filter I struggle to not burn the close foreground and light evenly, taken to putting the light on an old tripod and angling up to try and limit the foreground burn but find my results still mixed)
3 - 25 sec, f2.8 ISO3200 (foreground masked and exp increased by 3 stops)

I'm impressed by the 6D at this high ISO setting, to me even pixel peeping the noise is managable and looks slightly less than at 3200 (the increase Signal to noise that ETTR provides)

What are your thoughts.

Now off to edit some of the panoramas from the nights adventure

Cheers

Matt
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