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Thanks for the tips! Actually, these were hand-held, it was rather breezy, and I was having fun with my new tubes. I do understand the DOF dealy, and have been shooting with various macro lenses for a few years. However, I'm a bokeh freak...
Ballistics- I've never tried focus stacking. It looks interesting- I may give it a shot! Thanks.
Ahh- I have a rail, but I sort of hate it.
Nobody mentioned it, but these are all a stop or two underexposed also. Since you have the non-electrical tubes, Exif doesn't show much... what aperture did you shoot these at?
Nobody mentioned it, but these are all a stop or two underexposed also. Since you have the non-electrical tubes, Exif doesn't show much... what aperture did you shoot these at?
I believe they ranged from f2 to f5.6 (#3)- again, hand-held, etc, plus I was wanting a narrow dof just to see if the lens retained it's great oof qualities with the tubes- didn't mean to cause a stir, lol. I've never used tubes before, except the ones for my lensbabies. Although the histogram is indeed bunched to the left, unless my monitor is way off (no doubt possible...) they can't be one or two stops under exposed. Adding even one stop to the RAWs in LR4 makes all three images pretty washed out to my eye.
Some aren't that underexposed, they just need to have the black & white points adjusted and a bit of S in the curve.
Nobody mentioned it, but these are all a stop or two underexposed also. Since you have the non-electrical tubes, Exif doesn't show much... what aperture did you shoot these at?
I believe they ranged from f2 to f5.6 (#3)- again, hand-held, etc, plus I was wanting a narrow dof just to see if the lens retained it's great oof qualities with the tubes- didn't mean to cause a stir, lol. I've never used tubes before, except the ones for my lensbabies. Although the histogram is indeed bunched to the left, unless my monitor is way off (no doubt possible...) they can't be one or two stops under exposed. Adding even one stop to the RAWs in LR4 makes all three images pretty washed out to my eye.
I would suggest you need to calibrate your monitor then.. sounds like you have the brightness turned way too high...
The bottom edit is what I see as an accurate exposure... (it looks blown due to being OOF, but is reasonably close to a correct exposure on a calibrated monitor)
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