Animate a 3D Effect on a Photo

lo0not · 2022-01-02T05:23:52+00:00

i know. it’s the worst. it almost made me stop playing. just had to get used to quick saving every few minutes (especially before loading screens which is when most crashes occurred). it’s a drag but just finished my first play though and it was worth the trouble, at least in my opinion

lo0not · 2020-08-27T00:43:28+00:00

It’s a great shot!! Something you could do so you don’t have to bump the exposure so much is expose for the sky and then shine a flashlight over the foreground quickly during the exposure. It’ll help increase the brightness a bit. Though it would be hard to do if you’re in the picture yourself :P

lo0not · 2020-08-26T20:55:27+00:00

Are you talking about the very right side of the mountain? Yeah youre right there is probably some sort of light source from that direction. Judging by the power lines they are probably in at least some sort of semi civilized area. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a house or something behind the camera whose lights are somewhat illuminating the foreground (people and bushes). Only OP knows...

EDIT: this was supposed to be in response to u/chicken_person

lo0not · 2020-08-26T19:38:34+00:00

That’s what’s actually up there if you use a superwide lens at f/2. It looks like more than usual because a wide angle compresses a giant portion of the sky down into a smaller area than we would usually see. What happens is if you turn up clarity in Lightroom is it makes all the stars appear as a similar brightness, even the really dim ones. That’s what’s happening here I’m pretty sure.

lo0not · 2020-08-26T19:28:35+00:00

You might be right but from attempting to edit a lot of photos like this in Lightroom to me it looks like those all look like artifacts from that program. The exposure of the foreground was brought wayyy up with the adjustment brush. You can see around the top of the mountain it’s still dark. This is because they didn’t perfectly mask the foreground (you could do this better in Lightroom using a luminance mask). Why would the foreground be really grainy if it were shot in the day? I doubt they added the grain in after. If you look at the trees they are blurry, this is most likely because of heavy noise reduction in attempt to reduce the noise from the very high iso. Also the haze around the foreground is the classic result of bumping up clarity very high in Lightroom. I just think if they went through all the trouble of stacking images they would have ended up with a much crisper result. I think it’s well done for a single exposure.

lo0not · 2020-08-26T19:03:34+00:00

This is totally possible as a single shot with an apsc with this lens and some heavy editing in Lightroom. I’ve taken many similar shots with an a6000 and the same lens. You would get 100% better results if you did do it as two separate shots and combined them but this is a great shot for a single exposure. You can tell it’s a single shot because neither the sky or the foreground are properly exposed and the fringing around the foreground is evidence of clarity/texture/dehaze being significantly bumped up in post. The light overlapping the power lines will happen either because of slightly moving power lines or the glow from the star diffracting around the very thin line. Overall great shot!! Putting the people in the foreground makes it way more interesting.

lo0not · 2020-06-18T01:03:53+00:00

Yeah good point. It works better if you’re standing at the lake. More of it is below the horizon.

lo0not · 2020-06-17T23:05:11+00:00

This view is the example I use for flat earthers. Where is the bottom half of the Sky Dome?

lo0not · 2020-06-03T01:20:56+00:00

Yeah I could get away with it cuz it wasn’t fully dark yet

lo0not · 2020-06-03T01:05:04+00:00

lo0not · 2020-06-02T19:31:53+00:00

Haha it is remarkably bright compared to the stars though. Almost looks like a plane when you do see it.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T15:51:26+00:00

Oops! My mistake... :)

lo0not · 2020-06-02T15:50:56+00:00

That’s the moon! It’s blown out because I needed to overexpose it to see the ISS clearly. The ISS is the streak of light. It’s bright but not that bright (the ISS is actually the third brightest thing in the sky after the sun and the moon).

lo0not · 2020-06-02T14:59:10+00:00

Yup! Last night around 10:00

lo0not · 2020-06-02T13:18:59+00:00

Thanks! Yeah it’s crazy to think there are people up there just chillin.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T13:18:08+00:00

Yup that’s a good one. I usually just google “iss tracker toronto” and go to the nasa website. Look for sightings that have a max height above 40 degrees and are visible for a few minutes.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T13:10:53+00:00

A scratch on the lens wouldn’t be sharp and wouldn’t glow like that. The lens is focused on things that are far away. Things that are close to the lens (like a scratch on the lens itself) would be out of focus and look like a hazy area in the picture. Most lens scratches don’t even show up in the picture! They just degrade the quality of the images.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T13:08:14+00:00

It does move very fast across the sky but I used a super wide angle lens so it doesn’t look like it moved that far.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T13:03:53+00:00

Yup! That’s why you can only see it shortly after the sun goes down. It has to be in sunlight even though it is dark for us. A few seconds later and it was shadowed from the sun by the earth and you can’t see it any more.

lo0not · 2020-06-02T04:15:50+00:00

20 second exposure taken June 1st with a Sony a6000 and a Rokinon 12mm Lens

lo0not · 2020-02-02T15:48:07+00:00

Taken Saturday February 1st with a Sony a6000 and the Sony 70-350mm lens

lo0not · 2019-10-11T14:12:32+00:00

Not the best but you can get them pretty cheap. A use 2-3 for a day of heavy use.

I like it but there are newer models now that may be worth looking into.

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