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No-Inspector9085 t1_j3uscmp wrote

Reply to comment by tommydarko12 in Great Sand Dunes Sunset (Colorado, US) [OC] [5000 x 4000] by tommydarko12

I had a tour by a kid no older than 12. He wrestled some gators and was like “don’t tell nobody I’m doing this” he also gave us fish to feed the gators. We got in trouble because he took us in the back too lol. Then the wind blew a few roofs off and the kid panicked and ran into the flying sheet metal storm. We bought him a hat and a shirt at the gift shop and left it there for him. Great kid.

If you bring a fishing pole, you can fish the pond and feed the gators with the fish. 10/10.

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EvanDaniel t1_j3ucdlv wrote

Reply to comment by mcs1127 in Sunrise in a remote corner of Patagonia [OC] [1080x1350] by marcograssiphoto

A stop is a doubling (or halving) in light; used to refer to all three elements of the exposure triangle: aperture, film / sensor sensitivity, shutter speed. So a bracket of three images at 1 stop difference implies a base image, an image with twice the exposure, and one with half the exposure. Those three images can then be combined while editing; the images with lower exposure provide details in bright regions (the clouds and sky), those with more exposure are blow out in those regions, but provide better details in the shadows.

Focus stacking is how both the foreground and background are in focus. In an image with the plant in focus, the mountains in the back will be out of focus. So you combine different focal positions to get an image in focus everywhere. Sometimes you use more than two, but for landscapes often just two is enough. (Macro work, with very shallow depth of field, often uses lots of images stacked.)

This is all done with the camera on a tripod, taken in rapid succession, so the light and subject don't change.

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