Hi Uwe,

Very nice article about the making of!
I think its a good idea to show so detaied how this workflow is done.
One question for now, why you desided to take 3 photo's and not more?
Was this because of the space you were working in, or do you think it makes no sense to shoot 7 or more exposures (like i did till now).

Raoul.

>One question for now, why you desided to take 3 photo's and not more?
Was this because of the space you were working in, or do you think it makes no sense to shoot 7 or more exposures (like i did till now).


Very good question. Actually you cannot enable shooting bracketed sets of 5 or more in the 1ds2 without a computer. Now it is enabled for thenext time. I would have likely opted for 5 shots.

Postede it also in the article.

Uwe

[Edited by ustein on 16-10-2006 at 12:49 PM PST GMT]
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Thanks Uwe.

This is an intresting discusion.
Its true the canon 1dsMKII can not make automatic more then 3 photos (stupid but they never listen to us photographers who would like to choose more exposures).

BUT do we NEED more then 3 exposures if we work with photomatix, youre photos proof that with youre workflow all the detail is there(highlights/shadows).

Or like i did till now bracket my self on the camera,with the risk of moving the camera BUT i made 5 or more exposures to capture the scene (mostly architecture).

If i tell you that in the film days i caried so much light with me to balance the daylight with the inside light, this HDR thing is a revolution for my workflow, but still to learn a lot.

Raoul.

>Its true the canon 1dsMKII can not make automatic more then 3 photos

It can but you have to enable a personal function (needs a PC). Now I have enabled 5 and can disable it in the field.

Uwe
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Thanks Uwe for pointing that out.....

geeez, that requires a bachelor in canon manual .. the translations are really strange

I got it somehow to work, but which PFn do you use, Uwe?

I can't get it to burst in a sequence, even the cam is set on multiple shots, and FCn-8 is enabled, with EVU.

I'd like to have 5 shots, with a bracket of 2 f-stops automated, as Photomatix manual indicates, that 2 f-stops are fine.

[Edited by montespluga on 17-10-2006 at 01:34 AM PST GMT]
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>I can't get it to burst in a sequence, even the cam is set on multiple shots,


You may not want that. The extra vibration would not be helpful.


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You made a good point, forgotten about that.

So which CFn's do you use?
Usually, I'm not a dummy, but here, in the localised version, it's a mess; if say to take 3 shots - in EVU, in the 3rd personal prefstab, - the cam only takes shows up two, and takes 2.
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Should be P.Fn 8

Uwe
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Thanks, Uwe

I'll give another try tomorrow, its to late for that clumsy stuff, right now.
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Hi Uwe,
newby question:
got a MarkIIN also hoping to be able to make HDR with a monopod, WITH ONLY TWO FRAMES. Because this cam is so fast one has the identical frame in both. So not more than three, but less since it reduces the risk of misalignment. I shot RAW in Av with 3 stops difference, overexposing by 1 stop and underexposing by 2 stops, giving 1/250 and 1/30 for example.
Could someone please tell me what to do with them, sice I'm pleased with the dark areas of the light ones and the light parts of the dark ones? That's how I did most of my holiday vistas and I'm stuck for the moment.
You can't explain it too plain, simple and step-by-step for me.
Thank you, people!

The bracket function is very helpfull, when shooting small interiors, the cam beeing in a corner, or when you don't have access to the buttons very easy.
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Sturdy tripod and head
Use mirror lockup in camera
We use exposures of -2EV, 0, +2EV (the Nikon D2x can only do a max of 1EV increments)
Release the mirror
Wait about 3 seconds
Take the shot
This of course 3 times (the bracketing is handled by the camera)

The description above is your HDR process. However, the mirror lock up step, releasing the mirror (which is taking a shot), waiting 3 seconds and taking the shot is confusing. I thought the mirror was in locked position for all shots in the sequence. Can you explain tis in more detail? Thanks.

>I thought the mirror was in locked position for all shots in the sequence.

As far as I know it is not!

Uwe
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So in other words one needs to lock the mirror up 3 times? What do you mean by "release the mirror"?

>So in other words one needs to lock the mirror up 3 times?

There is a menu setting to lock the mirror. If you hit the shutter release first time the mirror goes up. Then hit it again and the exposure is taken. This happens 3 times.


>What do you mean by "release the mirror"?

>Mirror goes down.

Uwe
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