How important is a tripod?

[vipgraphx]

Thanks, Actually in photomatix when you select ghosting you can select each person where there is ghosting happening. IF that does not fix it then the next step is to right click the selection and choose what exposure you want to use. Each selection can use a separate exposure in case that works better. Usually by this time your good to go if you are in the right lighting and once again a camera and lens combo that can shoot off the brackets fast. If there is to much delay in-between each frame this then becomes a problem. If you are close but still have issues then in photoshop you can mask in your correct exposures. Sometimes it means having to tonemapp the original exposure to get the similar hdr look or brighten it... Sometimes in photomatix you select the darkest exposure to use for ghosting and it looks ugly you get a ugly soft spot. So you have yo use photoshop to fix that.

Keep in mind though that you need to have at least one exposure that the people are still with no motion and you can do this..IF all of your exposures have motion blur then that case there is nothing you can do to fix that..you will have an image that has ghosting or motion blur regardless..... Hope that makes sense.

 

[peanut170]

yea i get ya, sounds like alot of extra work!

 

[vipgraphx]

It is a lot of extra work but, its worth it!

 

[Bynx]

That lots of extra work to deghost an image takes all of less than a minute. Its just one of the steps in making your image. Skip the step if there are no people, cars or other objects moving around....even trees, branches and water waves. Otherwise, just select the areas and the software does the rest. Im really impressed with it.