In this post I show some more Inverted Little Planet images under a tree but this time a poplar tree:
This first one (v1) shows one side of the poplar tree with some harebell flowers growing at the base. Therefore this image I am showing more of the base. As you can see, it is a sunny day with bright blue sky which causes deep shadow areas.
The next image (v2a) is the other side of the tree taken a day later:
This is the same image but processed differently (v2b):
The next day gave me this (v3):
And the following day I got this (V5a):
This is the same image processed differently (V5b):
All very similar but all with a different look to them. Now for a technical discussion:
V1 is processed from single raw images as discussed in the previous post. It was a fine sunny day albeit a bit blustery.
V2a is a 5-exposure HDR set. It was taken on a windy day which gave a lot of ghosting effects as shown below:
so V2b is from single exposure raw files.
V3 was taken earlier in the morning to try and get images before the wind got up. But I just used raw single exposures as the contrast was more controlled as the sun was mostly behind the clouds. However, in the direction of the sun some of the clouds have burnt out in places.
V4 I will discuss in another post.
V5a is from a 5 exposure HDR set proceessed from the raw images via 16bit tiff files. Even though this was taken quite early in the morning and it was quite still there is still some ghosting caused by leaves moving in the wind. There was no point in being much earlier as the sun would be too low. Some of the highlights in the clouds are blown out despite the 5 step at 2-stop intervals hdr set.
V5B is the middle exposure from single raw files. Shadow noise is quite well controlled although the highlights are quite blown…