Digital BW, The Print

John,
Could you elaborate on your technique for "droping" your bracketed 
exposures in to PS-CS2 with instant registration and combine them 
into one image. Is that done before or after the raw conversion?
Thanks
kevin monroe

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "john dean" 
<deanwork2003@...> wrote:
>
> One of the very interesting developments in digital raw workflow
> centers around the ability to shoot 3 bracketed frames - over, 
under,
> and in the middle, drop them into PS CS2 with instant registration 
and
> combine them instantly as one very smooth entity. It's a  major
> improvement in dynamic range over the one frame 35mm camera or any 
ccd
> scanner, certainly including Imacon. That three frame registration 
can
> happen in about the time it would take to power up your scanner much
> less have your film processed. However we aren't talking people 
photo
> though, its got to be static right now.
> 
> john
> 
> 
> 
> > smaller pictures and stitch them together. That way, you retain 
the
> > advantages of the quick turnaround, yet can still get gargantuan
> images with
> > loads of detail. Modern stitching software, like PTGui, has gotten
> really
> > good, and with some practice you can get really quick at it.
> Shooting a 4x4
> > array can realistically give you at least the equivalent of a 2x2 
sized
> > sensor, maybe even 3x3, after you factor out the overlap, and the
> > interpolation filtering. So even a cheap eight megapixel camera 
like
> a Rebel
> > XT should give you more than enough resolution.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> > Paul                mailto:pderocco@
> >
>