Look what I did! These two photos, taken on the advice of some photography experts, have been stacked and enhanced to produce one final photo that is better than either original.
I can't see the difference/improvement between the photo on the left and the other two on the right. Tell the reader what we should look for to convince us that the "stacked" photo is better than the other two
And it's very well done. The tough part about doing this, I think, is that it begins to look fake if the manipulation goes too far. But this final product achieves the ideal of representing the scene as a human would perceive it, since our photo-editing happens much like this in close to real-time.
When Lief looked at this yesterday, I watched over his shoulder. He clicked on each of the two smaller photos, loading them up in two different FireFox tabs. Then, with clever use of the keyboard, was able to toggle quickly between the two photographs and immediately see the differences. Then he compared them with the final image in the same way, exposing the borders of my editing.
Okay. You guys have "enlightened" me. Thanks. I hadn't noticed the subtleties that you pointed out, James. And I doubt that I could replicate the "clever use of the keyboard" exemplified by the Philosopher. I'll take your word for the rest of it.
Look what I did! These two photos, taken on the advice of some photography experts, have been stacked and enhanced to produce one final photo that is better than either original.
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I can't see the difference/improvement between the photo on the left and the other two on the right. Tell the reader what we should look for to convince us that the "stacked" photo is better than the other two
In simple terms: the trees are as light as the rightmost picture and the sky is as dark as the leftmost picture, giving you more detail all-around.
And it's very well done. The tough part about doing this, I think, is that it begins to look fake if the manipulation goes too far.
But this final product achieves the ideal of representing the scene as a human would perceive it, since our photo-editing happens much like this in close to real-time.
When Lief looked at this yesterday, I watched over his shoulder. He clicked on each of the two smaller photos, loading them up in two different FireFox tabs. Then, with clever use of the keyboard, was able to toggle quickly between the two photographs and immediately see the differences. Then he compared them with the final image in the same way, exposing the borders of my editing.
Okay. You guys have "enlightened" me. Thanks. I hadn't noticed the subtleties that you pointed out, James.
And I doubt that I could replicate the "clever use of the keyboard" exemplified by the Philosopher. I'll take your word for the rest of it.
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