Well it seems that the terrible terror of aperture flickering has been solved with a small sliver of plastic shoved into my lens! I’ll save that for another post! But this now enables me to shoot day time and day length time-lapses! So last weekend I spent a bit of …
Read More »1, 2, 3 and 4 EV Step Bracketing for HDRI in Image Based Lighting
So far I’ve been shooting 2EV gaps with the Promote Control for my HDRI brackets, and as the default recommended setting, this has worked fine. However a few things have made me want to test 3EV steps: Mostly unsure what the difference is between 2 and 3EV steps. I’ve heard …
Read More »Banding, broken suns, and back to 48 hours per time-lapse!
If you’re catching up, the synopsis so far for this project is: I’m creating time-lapse HDR sky domes First series of test shots have been taken Initial test animations and renders look good (one sky, where the sun was behind some cloud, didn’t suffer from clipping in dynamic range. The …
Read More »New HDR time-lapse challenges at f11
So with the first few HDR skies shot, merged and test rendered into animations, I was quietly confident that this might not be quite as hard as I thought. Not Quite! My assumption that people would prefer slightly reduced dynamic range (shooting at f3.5 iso 100) vs the full dynamic …
Read More »Camera Setup for HDR Time-Lapse Sky Capture
Camera Setup for HDR Time-Lapse Skies and Image Based Lighting Recorded this quite a few days ago and just uploaded the video now. It covers everything from the camera body to the lens, ND filters, the Promote-Control, camera settings (which may be about to change slightly) and more. Have a …
Read More »Workflow and data management for HDRI time lapses
I’m sure this would be a non-issue if I was taking a normal number of photos. Taking a few rolls here and there would be pretty easy. Shooting both timelapse and HDRI with this 14bit RAW, 36 megapixel D800 is tough on the old hard drive, and its causing some …
Read More »Recreating “Direct HDR Capture of the Sun and Sky”
As I alluded to in my previous post, I have a HDR sky project I’m really excited about, but also a little scared! Namely… Timelapse, Hemispherical, HDRI Skies. A CG project I always admired was Paul Debevec’s and the USC/ICT Graphic Lab’s “Direct HDR Capture of the Sun and Sky”. …
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