Last night's easy going on the blog works against me tonight. Since I spent so much time on other things, I thought I would skimp on the blog. It's always a dumb idea to wimp out on anything and it pretty much always comes back to bit us.
The shooting today took a lot longer on the picture side than I planned on. The video went really quickly and I thought for sure it would be the other way around - though I don't think the video came out well at all. There should be enough good stuff to put something together. Initially, I tried using autofocus but finally realized it was hunting too much and I just put in on manual to infinity.
Once I did that, the footage looked great, but my logistics in the house kind of lost all sense.
Kind of a bummer, because I had the house to myself. Even though it did have all the time I needed, I just felt like I should get out. Now, here I am just thinking how stupid things can go sometimes.
Starting out with DarkTable and RawTherapee was working fine, but I wanted to try Luminance HDR tonight. After quite a bit of fiddling, it seems to be working out really well now. I am using jpgs instead of RAW, and it seems to come out better.
Luminance HDR has so many options that I just don't know what I'm missing. The results are looking pretty good with the seven bracketed shots per HDR I'm using, but I imagine if I painstakingly learned each setting that I would figure out how to control it really well. As always, there seems to be a lack of content out there on this technical software that doesn't seem to have tons of users.
Someone might see an opportunity there...
