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Hi All,
While editing a time-lapse, I'm having real problems with some frames inexplicably looking different from others frames located before and after the problem frames (note: this is definitely not flickering). I'm editing raws in Lightroom.
The scene of this time-lapse looks up a wide river towards an urban area, and it's a day-to-night holy grail sequence (and edited it in LRT accordingly). The river takes up the bottom half of the scene, and the problem only happens when a boat/ferry is prominent in the foreground.
Whenever a boat is in the foreground of a frame, the look of the photo is different (slightly, though obviously), from the frames before. The weird part is: the numbers are exactly the same in Lightroom's interface, no change of any editing parameter from shot to shot, even though the look of the photos is different. The sequence returns to the "normal" look after the boat is no longer prominent in the shot.
To be absolutely clear: this problem only happens when a boat is taking up a large area of the foreground. This is not flicker.
Of course, the camera was on fully manual when shooting, and the issue is not related to the ambient light (the sequence in question was during an overcast day, the light was constant). I know that the sequence should be seamless (no sudden jumps in editing values from frame to frame), because if I remove every Lightroom edit from all of the photos (with boat and without boat), the exposure values are the same, and the series looks seamless. It's only when the LRT edits are applied that I have this problem.
When I first noticed it, I figured there was a screw up somewhere, and so I sync'ed the edits of the "before-boat" shots to the "with-boat" shots, making sure that every possible value was being synchronised (yes, even exposure). This should have made them look the same, but the boat shots still looked different.
I'm very confused. It's almost like LR is applying editing values but not showing what they are in its interface.
I can't figure out what LRT has done, and I'm at a loss as to how to avoid these errors. I actually struggled to fix them manually in Lightroom, as the differences seem to be numerous, including what seems to be: darks, lights, shadows, highlights, clarity and temperature, if not circular and linear gradients, though it's very hard to tell (I've been a photo retoucher for over a decade, so I assure you it's not a lack of familiarity with Lightroom that is at issue :-)
I'm using Lightroom 5.3 on a Mac running OSX 10.9.4, and LRT is version 3.4. The frames were taken 20 seconds apart on an overcast day. Camera was a Nikon D3S with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens mounted (shots were taken at 82mm, and the camera was securely locked down).
Can anyone help?
Cheers!
Chas
While editing a time-lapse, I'm having real problems with some frames inexplicably looking different from others frames located before and after the problem frames (note: this is definitely not flickering). I'm editing raws in Lightroom.
The scene of this time-lapse looks up a wide river towards an urban area, and it's a day-to-night holy grail sequence (and edited it in LRT accordingly). The river takes up the bottom half of the scene, and the problem only happens when a boat/ferry is prominent in the foreground.
Whenever a boat is in the foreground of a frame, the look of the photo is different (slightly, though obviously), from the frames before. The weird part is: the numbers are exactly the same in Lightroom's interface, no change of any editing parameter from shot to shot, even though the look of the photos is different. The sequence returns to the "normal" look after the boat is no longer prominent in the shot.
To be absolutely clear: this problem only happens when a boat is taking up a large area of the foreground. This is not flicker.
Of course, the camera was on fully manual when shooting, and the issue is not related to the ambient light (the sequence in question was during an overcast day, the light was constant). I know that the sequence should be seamless (no sudden jumps in editing values from frame to frame), because if I remove every Lightroom edit from all of the photos (with boat and without boat), the exposure values are the same, and the series looks seamless. It's only when the LRT edits are applied that I have this problem.
When I first noticed it, I figured there was a screw up somewhere, and so I sync'ed the edits of the "before-boat" shots to the "with-boat" shots, making sure that every possible value was being synchronised (yes, even exposure). This should have made them look the same, but the boat shots still looked different.
I'm very confused. It's almost like LR is applying editing values but not showing what they are in its interface.
I can't figure out what LRT has done, and I'm at a loss as to how to avoid these errors. I actually struggled to fix them manually in Lightroom, as the differences seem to be numerous, including what seems to be: darks, lights, shadows, highlights, clarity and temperature, if not circular and linear gradients, though it's very hard to tell (I've been a photo retoucher for over a decade, so I assure you it's not a lack of familiarity with Lightroom that is at issue :-)
I'm using Lightroom 5.3 on a Mac running OSX 10.9.4, and LRT is version 3.4. The frames were taken 20 seconds apart on an overcast day. Camera was a Nikon D3S with a 70-200mm f/2.8 lens mounted (shots were taken at 82mm, and the camera was securely locked down).
Can anyone help?
Cheers!
Chas