3 Mav 3 Pro AEB technique

[akdrone]

Thought you might be interested in this bit of geek. Shooting yesterday over a burn area from one of many fires this summer, the sun was a bit above the horizon and I realized the dynamic range of the shot I wanted was probably more than even a 5 AEB shot would get so I shot a 5 Auto Exposure Bracketed images and then moved - probably the shutter speed … a stop and a third I guessed…and shot another 5 so I would get a broader dynamic range. The Aurora HDR plugin I use with Lightroom brought all of them together really well, ranging from -1.3 EV to + 1.7 in perfect .3 stop changes. I lucked out on the shutter speed change as I didn’t actually calculate it I just bumped it where I thought it would be about right. 55 years of photog helps . Here’s a screenshot of the Aurora HDR screen and the resulting image. I would add - Isn't fire fickle?

 

[Nanny Ogg]

Interesting technique, It worked pretty well..

 

[akdrone]

Interesting technique, It worked pretty well..

yeah...Had I not done that the sky would have been entirely blown out. I didn't put up another thing I did with a panorama. Panos are only shot jpg so the same issue can arise so I will shoot one pano exposed for the ground and a second exposed for the sky. Overlap them in Photoshop (occasionally I have to crop a tiny bit if they are not in perfect register) and mask out the bright sky from the one that is overly bright).

 

[Dale D]

Thought you might be interested in this bit of geek. Shooting yesterday over a burn area from one of many fires this summer, the sun was a bit above the horizon and I realized the dynamic range of the shot I wanted was probably more than even a 5 AEB shot would get so I shot a 5 Auto Exposure Bracketed images and then moved - probably the shutter speed … a stop and a third I guessed…and shot another 5 so I would get a broader dynamic range. The Aurora HDR plugin I use with Lightroom brought all of them together really well, ranging from -1.3 EV to + 1.7 in perfect .3 stop changes. I lucked out on the shutter speed change as I didn’t actually calculate it I just bumped it where I thought it would be about right. 55 years of photog helps . Here’s a screenshot of the Aurora HDR screen and the resulting image. I would add - Isn't fire fickle?
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Very nicely done! If the truth were known , almost all drone shots of landscape need HDR because the bright sk dominates the exposure and there is a high dynamic range. Rrgo, we should all bracket and do HDR processings.

Dale

 

[GFields]

Works great.

 

[akdrone]

Very nicely done! If the truth were known , almost all drone shots of landscape need HDR because the bright sk dominates the exposure and there is a high dynamic range. Rrgo, we should all bracket and do HDR processings.

Dale

Agreed. I shoot 5AEB virtually all the time. For whatever reason, LR does not like 3AEB - at least when I am doing HDR Panorama. It requires 5AEB exposures so that's pretty much all I shoot.