Tips for FTS?

[edwing206]

Ok, cool. I thought you were diving or something at the time of the photo.

 

[baloutang]

LOL...yeah, that's my lousy photo editing skills.

I think I resized and then cropped the photo hence the problem with softness. I don't have the original un-edited version, but will to post a new pic shortly.

 

[baloutang]

ok, here's another take...this time the pic is more washed out IMO...especially the center. I did not enhance it, outside of cropping the orignal and resizing.

Similar settings, although I took the photo from higher up on the tripod for more of a top-down view.

 

[BLAKEJOHN]

baloutang, In crease your shutterspeed bt 2/3 stop and you should be golden. Or you can set your camera on manual apature at 7 or 8 and then start 1 stop under cameras reflective measurement and then bracket your shots(adjust your shutter speed one click at a time until 1 stop over exposed). To be a bit more advanced you can also take all your bracket shot and put them into PS3 and merge HDR(high density range). Shots must be taken in raw and converted to tiff 16 bit. You can email me at Bret@Blakejohnphotography.com if you need any assistance.

 

[baloutang]

I will try what you suggested Bret! Thanks for the advise.

 

[jwedehase]

It has actually been my experience that the best results come from UNDER exposing by 2/3 EV. You can always bring up darkness, but you can't pull back blasted out tips of rocks and corals.

 

[jwedehase]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12163632#post12163632 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by melev
Jason - you're a whiz at this stuff. Look at the great job you did with the cover of our March magazine!
http://reefkeeping.com/

Thanks, Marc! But now the link changed.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2008-03/index.php