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| If at first you don't succeed.... Second revision of the shot, with more visual "guidance" towards the subject and reduction of distracting elements in the scene. |
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| 6 Exposure, f1.8 - f8.4, ND+CPL filter used on lighting shots |
I'm a simple person; my understanding of photography consists of two halves: a love for artful lighting, and a burning hate of tripod jitter. Thus, you can imagine the reaction when I found these exposures to not only have side-to-side movement, but enough forward-back to dilate the image on a number of shots.
(Insert cliche about life, lemons, and sweet summer drinks here)
As I played around with different ways of combining the exposures, I noticed that the error was negligible towards my focal target (see below, where darker means less error), while the background was hopelessly misaligned. Deciding to mend fences with my long-standing enemy, I tried a difference-combination of my base exposures (with three log2 cascaded blurs), giving a result like below:
At first, I was rather disappointed- after all, I managed to capture the lighting in the areas I didn't want, instead of the highlights needed to separate foreground and background. Shortly thereafter, my inner math-major mentally slapped me as I remembered what the inverse of addition was, resulting in the completed shot. Turns out college is worth it, after all!
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