Posts Tagged ‘hdr’

Okay so it wasn’t exactly much of a walk, from one end of the Town Quay to the other and back again, but I managed to sneak a few photos in, and even got some that I rather like.

I’ve played around with some HDR on some of them, and the lead photo with the Red Funnel ferry in is one I particularly like.

I’ve not been to Greenwich in years, until the other day that is.

I found a free parking spot at the top of the hill, waited for my friend Jorge to turn up and walked across the park and took a little look around The Greenwich Observatory which was also free.  Bonus!

I don’t really have much to say about the photos, other than the fact I’ve thrown a couple of HDR ones into the mix.

Enjoy.

I was at Rownhams House recently doing a little bit of video work for my friend, magician Paul Newton.

We were chatting over a cup of tea with the owner Roger, and he was telling us about a recent booking that he’d taken for a wedding later in the year.  The lady had come to visit in the evening and had been sold instantly by the look of the place at night.  Roger only had photos of the house during the day, so I offered to stay around half an hour later until it was dark enough to capture the house at night.

Rownhams House is hidden away just a couple of minutes from junction 3 of the M27.  The building in the photo has recently been beautifully refurbished for weddings.  If you’re looking for a venue for your wedding in the Southampton area I suggest you make your booking quickly, because once word gets out about this lovely venue it’s going to be booked solid!

It’s also ideally situated for me as its just a 2 minute drive from my house, so I really hope to be shooting weddings there very soon.

Update: I forgot to mention Rogers clock! If you pay him a visit, be sure to ask him to show you his clock as it really is quite impressive.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) images are cheating a little because they allow you to show a greater range of light and detail in the final image.  The above image was created from a single RAW file.  I extracted 3 versions (see below) of the image at -2, 0 and +2 stops and then set to work in Photomatrix which allowed me to combine the best bits from all three images.

My almost daily photo today was taken in the summer while I was in Montreal.

It was taken from Saint Helen’s Island (Île Sainte-Hélène) and the reason it looks a little unusual is because it is.

It’s an HDR (high dynamic range) image which in simple terms means I’ve taken the original image, saved it as three separate files (-2, 0 and +2 stops) and I have used Photomatrix to combine the highlights and lowlights to create the final image with a larger dynamic range than normal.  In a normal photograph you’d either be able to get the sky properly exposed, leaving the foreground in near darkness, or you’d be able to expose for the foreground leaving the sky devoid of detail.  With HDR you can get the best of both worlds.