I took this multi-exposure pic of the Sydney Opera House on a very windy grey day. I am very surprised at how much richness in the colours I gained by creating a HDR.
Hi all,
I have finally decided on a photo for this blog. This is a photo of me taken by one of the guys at work. He was playing around with some lights trying to do something interesting. I ended up being his model. What do you think?
Last week I received a new Manfrotto monopod (with legs) which I won a few weeks ago on ebay. I shot the below photo using it for the first time. I think it will take a little time for me to get used to using the monopod.
I also used 5 exposures to create the original HDR which I processed using Photomatix and Photoshop. As the shot turned out a little soft i decided to try and give it a little of the "Lord of the Rings" fantasy look to it. You be the judge of how well the shot turned out.
Below is a test shot I took last weekend. This shot is made up of 35 images with a exposure range of 1/4000 to 1/1.6 seconds.
You can see that the full dynamic range of the shot is very clear, ie full shadow and highlight detail
Below are some stairs which are directly behind where the last shot was taken. You can not see them as they are on the other side of the railway. This is my second attempt at trying to capture these stairs. The first time I was very disappointed with the colours I was getting so I went back and took triple exposures of the whole shot (102 images in total) to create a HDR of the shot. For some strange reason the HDR did not turn out the way I had envisaged a number of the highlights blew out and created some very low contrast areas. I have cropped these annoying bits out of the shot which I think has improved it. I think my exposure and colour problems with the shoot may be due to being an overcast day.
There is another flight of similar stairs that go up past these ones. I plan to capture the entire flight of stairs at some stage, but I will have to stand close to the railway line to do that and I am not sure how legal or safe that will be.
Below is Tunks Park. The park backs onto one of the many inlets that Sydney Harbour offers.
It was a great sunny day here in Sydney so I decided to go out for a bit of a photo trip. Below is a shot of Lavendar Bay. I am still trying to work out the best way to make the most artistic point out of the distortion that I am getting with my panoramic photos.
Please leave a comment and let me know what you think
Recently I got myself a Panormaic Tripod Head. What is that you may ask? It is a device that allows you to move a camera around a central point in order to take wide or spherical panormaic photos.
I suppose when one starts one of these things they must give a bit of introduction and explanation of what one wants to achieve with this. I would like to make this a place for me to post a number of photos that I am proud of. I may not just restrict this to photography.
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Hieraco said:
I love these HDR images, would it be possible to post some technical info with them such as the number... read more
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aries67 said:
[this is good]Fisheye and hdr combined? Love the lines you've created on the steps, especially the bottom steps and the water grill/drain.... read more
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aries67 said:
OMG! 35 exposures???!!! I think my interest in hdr might have just instantly waned! read more
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Interesting. This was not shot with a fisheye lens but rather multiple 20mm overlapped stitched shots on top of panoramic... read more
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