okay thanks John

This was my first attempt at anywhere quite so huge underground and is part of the stoped out vein at a Derbyshire Calcite Mine.

It was quite a problematic shot, in that I did not want to leave the shutter open whilst the flash holders moved as they would leave a light trail.
My first attempt was using the K20d's Multi exposure mode which I thought would be an ideal solution, I set it on 9 exposures but I dont think it did more than about 3 ??
So I then tried making several exposures and have merged them in PS using layer masks.
I think I have lots of work to do to get it right and so will be going back to take more photographs.


[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/Stopesmerge.jpg[/IMG]

I have had a bit of a play in PS and here are two crops with slightl differences, both have been adjusted in curves and a little shadow/highlights and finally a bit of unsharp mask. I think I may have oversharpened the second

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/squarecrop.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f396/Hannabella/squarecrop2.jpg[/IMG]

RR
I have many exposures of this and the original idea was to be a lot darker with the effect to be lit by the fire glow. I will take another look at that and maybe re-post
Thanks
Steve

Thank you all

A square crop it is then

Thanks for your thoughts hefty, I will try and post a couple more here tomorrow.

LOL ahh yes the Fire exit sign I was meaning to clone that out but forgot.
I took lots of variations on this shot so will mess about some more and I take your point about right of the flames, will try a crop.

What you think about the soft focus on the face? Does it ruin it?

Was wondering what you think of my latest from a series of Blacksmithing shots.
The face is a bit soft on the focus and I have bodged a clone-out of a distracting window to the right of the shot in a hurry, but in general do you reckon the shotis acceptable or do I eed to sharpen up the features?
The problem was the light levels of course but I was using 2 studio lights and a few smaller lights and ISO 800

Well if you think a Nikon would be netter in low light you should check out this comparison of the D700 and the K20d link

Here is a low light shot 800ISO and no real noise issue I think, as Matt says, check out your technique.

Are you sure thats not a Coot?

Thanks bb2, will work on that