I think I may have answered my own question this morning, it was the first thought that suddenly popped into my head, after jeez why did I drink all that wine .... but would like some confirmation from you guys.
Took some pictures yesterday evening as the sun was setting over Chesil beach, big range of contrasts between sky/pebbles/water so used exposure bracketing and a ND grad.
Camera on tripod, remote shutter, ISO 100 etc. but when I combine them in Elements 11 the water goes a bit weird (to be expected) but some static posts for example take on a slight ghosting.
I think I may have left the lens OS on, would this cause that?
Appreciate the feedback, and got to say, finding this project has proven invaluable to a newbie like me.
Wind? Not from the wine, but as I was shooting the same sunset, on the same stretch of coast there were certainly some very strong gusts, well down this end anyway, the slightest movement is gonna cause the ghosting. Nice wasn't it, and HDR, just say no. this was my effort
If you left IS/OS/VR on and had exposures over about 1/4 of a second, then those exposures will be blurred and will cause ghosting -- optical image stabilisation will introduce movement errors over about that length of shutter speed.
Some expensive lenses will automatically disable IS on a tripod (tripod-sensing IS), but unless you are absolutely sure your lens has that function (most don't) you should always disable IS on a tripod.
Even with shorter exposures, IS will cause 'drift', so sequential images will not quite line up (especially if the gap between exposures was enough for the IS to shut down between shots). This could cause ghosting if Elements doesn't have the ability to align images -- I've not tried the HDR function in Elements.
@jase_h what a great sunset wasn't it Jase. have a bunch of images to process yet (not HDR) but fancied trying it as a novelty. Colour of sky in your shot is amazing - SOOC?
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Some expensive lenses will automatically disable IS on a tripod (tripod-sensing IS), but unless you are absolutely sure your lens has that function (most don't) you should always disable IS on a tripod.
Even with shorter exposures, IS will cause 'drift', so sequential images will not quite line up (especially if the gap between exposures was enough for the IS to shut down between shots). This could cause ghosting if Elements doesn't have the ability to align images -- I've not tried the HDR function in Elements.
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