On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 01:15:28PM +0200, AlunFoto wrote: > 2009/5/14 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > I'm not looking for tonemapping. Last night I was trying to shoot the > > sunset while overlooking the Santa Clara Valley. I could expose on the > > sky, or on the valley, but not both. It is a perfect case of where two > > shots, several stop apart, shot in the same fraction of a second would > > be the perfect solution. I suppose that I could try bracketing and > > post processing, but it would be very handy to have it in the camera, > > and to have the two frames close enough in time, without camera > > jiggle, to hand hold. > > I believed that combining different exposures to a single photograph, > compressing the total tonal range into something renderable on a > computer screen/print, was what tonemapping was all about? Shouldn't > matter where the processing takes place as far as I can see... > > You're most welcome to set me straight, though... :-)
My apologies. I got my terms screwed up. I had thought tone mapping was doing the above with a single exposure. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
