Sand, Sea & Clouds

Hauer

Hi - recent scene at the Dutch coastal dune area of Mijendel / Wassenaar, situated close to The Hague. Plenty of bad weather on the way!

Lens: Nikkor 18-200VR @ focal length 18mm. Aperture f/9, shutterspeed 1/320 & ISO 200. Used WB bracketing feature with settings ranging +3 to -3 and blended them together (3 pictures, 1 shot).

Appreciate your comments.

Cheers - Herman

ericgtr

Great shot, you've managed to get all the tones in there nicely. This is the first I've heard of WB bracketing, interesting to know. So they were merged and not HDR'd huh?

Marc Muench

Herman Auer wrote:

Hi - recent scene at the Dutch coastal dune area of Mijendel / Wassenaar, situated close to The Hague. Plenty of bad weather on the way!

Lens: Nikkor 18-200VR @ focal length 18mm. Aperture f/9, shutterspeed 1/320 & ISO 200. Used WB bracketing feature with settings ranging +3 to -3 and blended them together (3 pictures, 1 shot).

Appreciate your comments.

Cheers - Herman

Nice soft feel to the image

Do you mean 1 picture and 3 exposures? or does the camera blend the one exposure with all the diff WB possibilities in its internal processor?

Sounds kind o cool, similar to what I have been after Canon to do with regards to blending one RAW capture multiple times in their new digic processors.

Hauer

Hi - thanks for commenting. When using the bracketing feature with the D50 it produces two extra pictures simultaneously. These extra two can be set at either WB step range +3 to -3. Obviously WB setting 3 either way provides the max dynamic range on this camera type. After the picture was taken, I used Photomatix merging the 3 jpeg images into a whopping 34mb TIF format photo. Using Nikon Capture, I then converted the singel TIF photo back to the original format being jpeg. Am still experimenting with this feature as it's all very new to me. I can imagine that using RAW could have excellent results too.

Hope this explanation offers some enlightenment.

Cheers - Herman