[Leica] FF Combine Flowers

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Nice work, Mark.  That is being very creative.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Rabiner" <mark at rabinergroup.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 12:15 AM
Subject: [Leica] FF Combine Flowers


>I was walking along the sidewalk minding my own business when I came upon
> this sidewalk flower box I'd not seen and looking pretty good. It was in 
> the
> dead of night as usual. 11:59 PM! I could not make a thing like that up!
> I was travelling light with my 18.0-55.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 Nikkor on my D40x.
> I snapped the shutter and on the back of the camera in the little window
> thing where you look at the pictures I saw orange mush. Mush I tell you!
> It was orange and blurry. And I'm often ok with orange blurry pix but this
> one wall chock filled with detail that were were obviously not seeing.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235940.jpg.h
> tml
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/3uf8995
> Click on it you'll see. All that little detail? Its NOT THERE!
> So I popped up my Twinkie light and snapped another one on the theory that
> all the detail it would record I could sneak into the other picture making
> it just sharp enough. Wow was the flash shot boring and flat and tunnel
> effect ( which I balanced out) and blue.
> As you can see here  though I balanced out a few things.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235945f.jpg.
> html
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/6ctrwgl
>
> So I selected those two shots and went into the Bridge  Tools/ load files
> into photoshops layers -   Photoshop menu. And it did that. Into a new 
> file.
> Then I selected both layers  of the new file it just made and hit the 
> "align
> layers" thing and it did that I think perfectly.
> Then I faded the flash picture layer so I did what I wanted it to do when 
> I
> took the picture in the first place. Just supply some needed detail to the
> non flash shot.
> In this case it was around 33 percent of the flash shot flash.
> Then I saved it as a jpeg and you're looking at it now.
> Perhaps the best of both worlds. With funny edges.
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/lugalrabs/fridayflowers/111011_235945.jpg.h
> tml
> Or
> http://tinyurl.com/3mddmfn
>
> I'm going to call this a Rabstergram and its ok if you do it yourself but
> I'd just like a phone call or a nice note in the mail. Written with a
> fountain pen.
>
> -- 
> Mark R.
>
>
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