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Psst, orionid:

The “I am become Death” quote comes from Vishnu in the Hindu Bhagavad-Gita. Oppenheimer was quoting it.

The Alan Shepard quote in your sig is from the Mercury program. Shepard didn’t fly in Gemini.

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I’ve opened up a thread in the Pub and Grill for HDR/Double exposure rules discussion.

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I was a little late to the party, and only had one shot this week. I have 22,000 RAW files, and exactly ONE photograph of a tiger……

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There are some Nikon DSLR’s that can do double exposures in-camera, but combining them after the fact is generally not allowed. The kicker here is that combining the exposures isn’t all that different from what you’d do with HDR anyway, but overall I’m not sure that gets at the theme’s intentions. Perhaps SilverStag can weigh in on this one as the theme suggester.

Double exposures are a gray area that we probably didn’t give enough attention to during the recent revisitation of the rules. My gut feeling on this is that they fall into the class of “prohibited unless expressly allowed”.

My reasoning is thus:

In-camera double exposures are limited to film cameras and a very small subset of digital cameras, leaving most people out of the loop if double exposures are called for- hence they are exclusionary, to an extent. I know Elsinore is not in favor of things that artificially limit participation, and with good reason. I agree with her.

Now, if we want to revisit the question of Double exposures and using image-editing to produce them, I submit that’s a question for a different forum.

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Using the built in flash (with a color temperature of perhaps 6000? K) and the halogen at maybe 3400? K is the classic mixed-lighting scenario. The easiest solution if you feel you MUST use flash is to filter the flash with an warming filter to bring it closer to the halogen. Ideally you would get an ambient WB using something like an ExpoDisk and shoot without flash. I would also second getting a neutral background prop.

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And I’m a sucker for early Ford V8s, though I’d wager that one doesn’t still have a flathead in it.

Actually, I think it did. I’ll have to look for a different angle.

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I sometimes wonder about what percentage of ‘orange’ in the shot will make it qualify:

I think there’s enough here, even though there’s more blue:

This is sort of “variations on orange”:

And I’m waffling on whether there is enough orange here:

Your calls?

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Sleeping at the shutter. Tsk Tsk.

Beautiful job, man.

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I didn’t know you were in Peoria- I go thru there now and again. We’ll have to catch up and have coffee sometime.

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Very nice shot. U-man… Is your camera possibly set on auto WB rather than manual?

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It means that you will get one stop less actual light than your lens aperture indicates. i.e. your lens set at f/4 will actually pass the equivalent light as if it were set at f/5.6.

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Which one was staplermofos? 👿

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I’m not a professional, but I will offer my best wishes and encouragement. Follow your dream, and don’t listen to us old pricks who didn’t follow theirs and are jealous. Do us proud.

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I’m gonna design and build a focus puller for the kit lens.

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How about this?

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