{"id":3673,"date":"2014-07-02T19:01:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3673"},"modified":"2014-07-02T19:01:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T19:01:26","slug":"increasing-exposure-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3673","title":{"rendered":"Increasing exposure times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welding glass makes for a cheap, dense, &#8216;big stopper&#8217; type filter. Unfortunately, it gives a deep green cast to the image:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3674 aligncenter\" alt=\"Green cast by welding glass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868-600x399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I have experimented with this and managed to remove a lot of the green cast by adjusting the raw image with the raw image converter and exporting the resultant image (in this version as a jpg file &#8211; I have also tried tiff files):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3675 aligncenter\" alt=\"raw coversion to remove green cast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc-600x399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>As you can see, most of the green cast has gone, along with most of the blue sky. However, I took a 3-exposure HDR set and got the following result using as input the 3 processed raw files which were exported as jpg files:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3676 aligncenter\" alt=\"hdr set\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tm-600x399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tm-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tm-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tm.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This is beginning to look like a more natural image, but it could do with a bit of tweaking:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tmtifp1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3677 aligncenter\" alt=\"adjusted final image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tmtifp1-600x399.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tmtifp1-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tmtifp1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/E14_4868_rc_j3tmtifp1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Here, I have managed to recover the blue sky and recoloured the green grass. Not a bad result considering the state of the original images.<\/p>\n<p>But what use is such a filter? I see two main uses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smoothing out movement, typically water to give give an ethereal, misty surface.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating moving objects such as traffic of people moving though the scene.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I have got the basics covered, I will give these a try.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How did I fix the welding glass to a lens? I didn&#8217;t want to risk cutting the glass so I attached it to an old Cokin filter holder:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0337p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3680 aligncenter\" alt=\"Filter attached to lens\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0337p1-600x520.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0337p1-600x520.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0337p1-300x260.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0337p1.jpg 715w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>For this, I used &#8216;Chemical Metal&#8217; as an adhesive to attach the filter to the front of the filter holder &#8211; this makes an almost permanent fixing. I then used black &#8216;Sugru&#8217; (brilliant stuff!) to fill the gaps top and bottom to reduce the risk of glare from the sun &#8211; this is shown in close-up below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0338p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3681 aligncenter\" alt=\"close-up of filter attachment\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0338p1-600x448.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0338p1-600x448.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0338p1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0338p1.jpg 830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>And this is what it looks like attached to the camera:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0339p1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3682 aligncenter\" alt=\"Filter on camera\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0339p1-600x477.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0339p1-600x477.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0339p1-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/s14_0339p1.jpg 779w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welding glass makes for a cheap, dense, &#8216;big stopper&#8217; type filter. Unfortunately, it gives a deep green cast to the image: I have experimented with this and managed to remove a lot of the green cast by adjusting the raw image with the raw image converter and exporting the resultant image (in this version as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3673\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Increasing exposure times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3673"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3683,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3673\/revisions\/3683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}