I was looking through some photos online last night and saw some amazing effects that were like nothing I’d ever seen before. So I looked into it and it’s called HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography. This article explains it pretty well and it turns out there’s a massive Flickr pool devoted to it too. Obviously some are pretty ropey as it depends how well you use the software, but it gives a general idea of how incredible they can look. Apparently you should bracket exposures for proper HDR, then the software merges them together for some real magical-looking craziness, but I haven’t done that yet and you can get a good approximation anyway using tone-mapping, which approximates the process by squeezing more out of your usual 16-bit RAW image. I’ve had a go on some more photos from last weekend and here are the patchy results. First the RAWs, then the HDRed-up painting-looking ones.

April 21st, 2006 by Ad.
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Well, finally, spring has started to spring AT EASTER. So snapped some sheeps (probably too many sheeps), an abandoned house in a field, an abandoned caravan and a tree. Inspired. Well at least I found something to point my camera at for a change.

April 18th, 2006 by Ad.
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