Here is an example of image stacking. The first image is the finished product. It has two images that were taking 6 minutes apart stacked on top of one another. This was done because the one image was flooded with too much sunlight. It allows us to still see The Parthenon while still getting the full effect of the Sun. You will also notice that some of the reconstruction tools have been Photoshopped out of the finished image. All of those notes are in the Camera Info area below the image. In the second image you can see how The Parthenon just fades away in the extreme light, and see the scaffolding and cranes.
As I said yesterday, it is another picture of The Parthenon, yet entirely different and just as amazing.
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Sunrise at Athens. At the foreground you see the Parthenon, a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC. The final image is the result from two stacked images taken from exactly the same spot with a six minute time gap. The first photo provides some structural detail of the temple which is eventually lost to the second photo due to the extreme illumination from the sun. Also some processing is done to remove unwanted elements (scaffolds, cranes etc).
Camera Info: Photo1: Camera Canon EOS XTi, 23/07/2008 06:28 UT+3, Shutter Speed 1/50, Aperture Value 10.0 (Bresser scope), ISO Speed 100, Bresser Skylux 70mm prime focus, Photo2: Camera Canon EOS XTi, 23/07/2008 06:34, Shutter Speed 1/320, Aperture Value 10.0 (Bresser scope), ISO Speed 100, Bresser Skylux 70mm prime focus, Stacked in PhotoImpact 6.0 – Processed in Photoshop CS2
Sunrise at Athens. At the foreground you see the Parthenon, a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC.
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