{"id":4988,"date":"2016-08-20T06:51:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4988"},"modified":"2016-08-20T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T06:51:18","slug":"inverted-little-planet-4-different-processing-methods-on-the-same-base-set-of-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4988","title":{"rendered":"Inverted Little Planet: 4 different processing methods on the same base set of images"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post may be a little technical but if you are not interested, just look at the photos!<\/p>\n

This is an inverted Little Planet of a poplar tree in the garden:<\/p>\n

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This is from the direction that shows the harebells flowers at the base of the tree (compare to my previous post). Technically, this is from a 5 exposure at 2 stop HDR set. Most of the shadows are illuminated sufficiently with no noticeable noise. The highlights are fine except some of the clouds in the direction of the sun. I managed to get these images fairly early in the morning while it was relatively still so there is minimal ghosting. The main downside is a lack of sharpness compared to the single-exposure versions – this is not noticeable with these web resolution sized images.<\/p>\n

This second image is from the -2 stop part of the HDR set. At this resolution it looks OK but there is a lot of noise in the shadow areas as I had to compensate for the -2 stop under exposure as well as lightening the shadows. However the highlights are reasonably well controlled:\"single<\/p>\n

This next image is from the ‘normal’ exposure of the HDR set. In this image the noise in the shadow areas is better controlled but a lot of the cloud detail is burnt out which spoils the image:<\/p>\n

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So, what I did for this final version is patch some of the cloud and sky detail from the underexposed version into the above image giving this final result:<\/p>\n

\"patch<\/p>\n

That looks a bit better…<\/p>\n

A lot of work though and with am old, slow computer, it takes a lot of processing time. Still, I have learnt a lot from this exercise.\u00a0 Which is the best though? I keep going between the first (HDR) image and the last (sky patched in) – I can’t make up my mind…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post may be a little technical but if you are not interested, just look at the photos! This is an inverted Little Planet of a poplar tree in the garden: This is from the direction that shows the harebells flowers at the base of the tree (compare to my previous post). Technically, this is … Continue reading “Inverted Little Planet: 4 different processing methods on the same base set of images”<\/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":[88,71,3,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-little-planet","category-panoramas","category-photography","category-trees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988","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=4988"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5013,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4988\/revisions\/5013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}