Black Card Technique

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Anyone ever tried this before? Very interesting.

Basically this guy uses black card to get two different exposures, like landscapes and skies etc.

EDIT: the real link!

http://hanjies.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-card-photography-part-i.html

For you who don't want to read it all here are the main pointers.

He will manual focus on the scene.
Get foreground shutter time and sky shutter time.
Say the longest shutter is 10sec for ground and 5 for sky, he will then use the card to cover the sky, set the shutter off, after 5 seconds remove the card and let it get the correct exposure on the sky.

Looks interesting.
 
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Robbo said:
Anyone ever tried this before? Very interesting.

Basically this guy uses black card to get two different exposures, like landscapes and skies etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

For you who don't want to read it all here are the main pointers.

He will manual focus on the scene.
Get foreground shutter time and sky shutter time.
Say the longest shutter is 10sec for ground and 5 for sky, he will then use the card to cover the sky, set the shutter off, after 5 seconds remove the card and let it get the correct exposure on the sky.

Looks interesting.
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so where was the black card bit then ?
 
Robbo said:
he will then use the card to cover the sky, set the shutter off, after 5 seconds remove the card and let it get the correct exposure on the sky.
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donutagain said:
so where was the black card bit then ?
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:thinking:

Held over the sky area for the first 5 secs, then removed completely for the last 5secs.

Forgot to say in my example, I wiggled the card so not to get a line
 
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Robbo said:
Anyone ever tried this before? Very interesting.

Basically this guy uses black card to get two different exposures, like landscapes and skies etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

For you who don't want to read it all here are the main pointers.

He will manual focus on the scene.
Get foreground shutter time and sky shutter time.
Say the longest shutter is 10sec for ground and 5 for sky, he will then use the card to cover the sky, set the shutter off, after 5 seconds remove the card and let it get the correct exposure on the sky.

Looks interesting.
Click to expand...

Eh?
What guy?
There doesn't seem to be much mention of black card on the wiki page.
 
Hey guys

Yes it's the wrong link lol don't know how as I just copied and pasted it.

Will try find it and replace! There are some good examples and a nice talk through for it..
 
Could you not just do this in PP?
 
Really interesting way of exposure compensation, it's just like dodging/burning but in-camera rather than onto a print/in Photoshop!
 
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