Comments on: Combining Different Exposures in Photoshop

By: Friend of Mike

Friend of Mike — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:07:36 +0000

I think mike was just trying to look for something in the photo to be critical about. Its one thing to offer supportive criticism about an image but its something entirely different to call someone’s photo contrived.

Mike was simply looking for a reaction, which he received. But he also made himself look like a immature, sad, little school boy in the process.

I like the technique, thanks for sharing.

By: Felipe L.B.

Felipe L.B. — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:06:15 +0000

I wonder how you have done the final step – when you equalizes the colors in the photo. Can you explain this?

By: Christopher O'Donnell

Christopher O'Donnell — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:05:43 +0000

Hi Mike,

I see your point, but if you look at the two original, straight-from-the-camera images at the beginning of this tutorial, you can see that the clouds really aren’t reflected in either images. This is due to two things:

1. the ripples in the water break up the reflection.

2. if you see in the water where the sun is reflected (where the flowers meet the water), most of the dramatic cloud formations are located above that point, which is part of the water not seen since the plants block it. Still, I can see some clouds reflected in the water around where the sun is, but not much since it is still broken up by the ripples.

I do see your point, but not every body of water is like glass; when you get ripples, the reflection is heavily distorted or even non-existent.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:24:46 +0000

I like the technique of blending images of different exposures to obtain the final image. The problem I have is that in the example above the water is NOT reflecting the dramatic clouds.

In that respect the image looks contrived.