Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/10/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I was walking along the sidewalk minding my own business when I came upon this sidewalk flower box I'd not seen and looking pretty good. It was in the dead of night as usual. 11:59 PM! I could not make a thing like that up! I was travelling light with my 18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikkor on my D40x. I snapped the shutter and on the back of the camera in the little window thing where you look at the pictures I saw orange mush. Mush I tell you! It was orange and blurry. And I'm often ok with orange blurry pix but this one wall chock filled with detail that were were obviously not seeing. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235940.jpg.h tml Or http://tinyurl.com/3uf8995 Click on it you'll see. All that little detail? Its NOT THERE! So I popped up my Twinkie light and snapped another one on the theory that all the detail it would record I could sneak into the other picture making it just sharp enough. Wow was the flash shot boring and flat and tunnel effect ( which I balanced out) and blue. As you can see here though I balanced out a few things. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235945f.jpg. html Or http://tinyurl.com/6ctrwgl So I selected those two shots and went into the Bridge Tools/ load files into photoshops layers - Photoshop menu. And it did that. Into a new file. Then I selected both layers of the new file it just made and hit the "align layers" thing and it did that I think perfectly. Then I faded the flash picture layer so I did what I wanted it to do when I took the picture in the first place. Just supply some needed detail to the non flash shot. In this case it was around 33 percent of the flash shot flash. Then I saved it as a jpeg and you're looking at it now. Perhaps the best of both worlds. With funny edges. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235945.jpg.h tml Or http://tinyurl.com/3mddmfn I'm going to call this a Rabstergram and its ok if you do it yourself but I'd just like a phone call or a nice note in the mail. Written with a fountain pen. -- Mark R.