Re: What has gone wrong with the focus?
Looks like you got it right sharp and more like what it looked like. I haven't CS4 so can't do that well and I can't tell from the camera histogram where it looks blown on the right if it is actually blown until I get home. Sometimes you can just reduce ev and get definition back and it wasn't blown at all. That is why you got the wrong one because I took a lot just in case of camera shake so that I could choose the best trio, and I was looking at a different middle image where reducing ev by one stop brought back definition.
You got the best one in the end and I used GG2 filter on it. cheers :)
Re: What has gone wrong with the focus?
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arith
Looks like you got it right sharp and more like what it looked like. I haven't CS4 so can't do that well and I can't tell from the camera histogram where it looks blown on the right if it is actually blown until I get home. Sometimes you can just reduce ev and get definition back and it wasn't blown at all. That is why you got the wrong one because I took a lot just in case of camera shake so that I could choose the best trio, and I was looking at a different middle image where reducing ev by one stop brought back definition.
You got the best one in the end and I used GG2 filter on it. cheers :)
Hi Arith,
What software are you using?
Does the 10D have highlight alert (flashes blown areas with white pixels so you can see how much and what is blown).
Re: What has gone wrong with the focus?
I use cheap Helicon Filter which cost only £20 as a plug in for CS2 but they accidently gave me the full version.
http://www.heliconsoft.com/heliconfilter.html
The 10D does have the handy flashing highlights but I always shoot RAW and since the histogram (which is only luminosity) is a graph of an image as if processed to standard settings with a strong S curve I expose to the right trying to actually get a very small area blown, unless I'm doing HDR when I just bang the needle in the middle.
If I seriously want the image I bracket anyway and don't know why I sometimes don't. Normally using partial exposure helps to blow highlights because I am getting a bit lazy and should choose something more appropriate or do it properly. :)