Hi, James,
Interesting. Thanks.
From that piece:
The next time you’re out taking pictures of clouds, reduce your shutter speed by a few stops.
I guess that means, "reduce your exposure time by a few stops".
It's a tough language (photography).
Best regards,
Doug
No, Doug, not quite......., it's
does mean shutter speed! If one is shooting a model a car or landscape the camera is set to manual and the aperture must remain fixed so the focal plane is unchanged as one decrease the exposure by reducing the shutter speed.
One can so the same thing setting the exposure to bracketing, minus, normal and plus some Ev amount, but with the camera set to Av or aperture priority, the shutter speed alone will change. I do this, add the 3 pictures as layers in Photoshop with the normal exposure on top, and paint the clouds in a layer mask, so a darker cloud set from below replaces the lighter clouds.
In practice, I set the normal to -1EV and then the bracket enteral is +/- I.0 EV.
That gives me two sets of dark clouds to choose from.
With the Ricoh GR and GXR bodies, the three shots are obtained "instantly" in one press of the shutter and since there's no mirror from a shutter, the pictures are vibration free and line up very well!
I wonder whether or not Ricoh has added that to the K3 firmware?
Asher