Wild Iris HDR

**molucca** · 30 April 2009, 01:15 AM

I was shooting for HDR, but they were all too saturated.

Rich

**raynerj1** · 30 April 2009, 06:35 AM

Nice shots Rich!

To throw another varible in the mix, if you use a flash you can really confuse matters also. For instance, I took a shot the other day in bulb mode with close to a 2 second exposure and was still able to catch an object in motion without any blur.

My camera can do 3, 5 or 7 exposures in a bracket. My strobes will work fine at 3, but won't recharge fast enough for 5 or 7 exposures.

**molucca** · 01 May 2009, 05:13 PM

My neighbours that never do anything to their yard happen to have Iris in front of their difficult to describe disaster. Nice Iris, though.

Rich

**raynerj1** · 01 May 2009, 07:42 PM

Nice Iris's... Very nice shot Rich!

**molucca** · 01 May 2009, 10:17 PM

John,

It has been overcast all day. I shot the purple Iris when it was starting to rain.

A couple HDR done in the shed.

Rich

**molucca** · 02 May 2009, 08:09 PM

HDR in the shed.

Rich

**wizard509** · 03 May 2009, 12:44 AM

Beautiful Rich, I love Iris's.

**molucca** · 03 May 2009, 04:37 PM

Still raining. I have been making an illuminator for the shed. Well, a couple of one gallon cans with a light bulb. I made a background form a piece of plywood from an old palette. I had the palette to keep thing off the floor, but it was a better place for rats to hide. There was a rat crawling about and I took a shot. Must have scared it and haven't seen it since. I'll see how the lighting works. I wanted to light to just show down and not on the background.

I was doing some SM separation. Think I was working too hard. Took an easy approach and it worked much better. Not too many tracing fragments.

Rich

**raynerj1** · 04 May 2009, 03:46 AM

Hi Rich,

If you have an external flash/strobe. See if you can set it so it fires as a slave, or if you can remotely trigger it. then you can set it up on a cheap lightstand and use that in your shed. For what you are shooting, it should work just great! here is a link to much more information about what you can really do with a flash Lighting 101

The expense is not much really. You can probably get a very nice setup for under $300 and that is including the price for a second flash (always nice to have a fill flash)

Any questions just hollar.

BTW: wonmderful images... They are great!

**molucca** · 04 May 2009, 07:30 PM

John,

I have an off camera fixture for the flash unit. I have an old flash, but it doesn't have much capability. I am trying not to illuminate the background for separation of the image later.

Rich