Didn't say it WAS done that way, only that it COULD be done that way.
With "today's super-low-noise sensors" you could use a low flash power
and mask off portions of the Fresnel lens to make the circle of light
illuminating the bird small enough to not light the trees.
I shoot the scene first without the flash & bracket the hell out of it.
Then try it again with the Better Beamer. I'd try to mask it so it just
barely illuminated the bird's body.
That way, if the flash spooked the bird, I'd still have the first round
available to work with.
On 7/28/2016 4:08 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
John wrote:
You could probably do it with a Better Beamer.
http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/review/better-beamer-flash-extender-review/
Not without illuminating at least part of the tree. I mean, the Better
Beamer narrows down the field illuminated by the flash a lot, but it
can't be *that* specific!
If you look carefully at the bird's back you'll notice a dark
"anti-halo" inside the outline of the body. This appears to me to be
the edge of the selection he made before brightening the bird in
Photoshop. With today's super-low-noise sensors you could find enough
information in the shadows to pull out the level of detail seen in
this shot. The noisiness/blotchiness of the bird's body is what lead
me to the conclusion that's how it was done.
On 7/27/2016 5:07 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Great pics. But a fork, a spoon and a moon appears to be a photoshop
job. The tree branches are seen in silhouette but the bird is nicely
illuminated. By what? Especially against the moon background, which
would have required a sunny 16 exposure. Ain't gonna happen. Paul
Paul via phone
On Jul 27, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Henk Terhell <hterh...@chello.nl>
wrote:
Stunning pictures!
Henk
PS: (the other one of course is 2x "will be"" )
Op 2016-07-27 om 22:26 schreef Mark Roberts:
Gonz wrote:
On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Mark Roberts
<postmas...@robertstech.com> wrote:
The photographs on the short list for this year's Astronomy
Photographer of the Year:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/gallery/2016/jul/27/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2016-shortlist-in-pictures
(Trivia: Find the mistake in the captions on that web page.)
The shadow of Mauna Kea (they misspelled it) is my favorite.
I missed that one! There's another...
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