HDR Photography

Greetings...

I have just began experimenting with HDR photography as of today actually, so I thought I'd take to my blog and talk a bit about it.

So HDR (high dynamic range) is basically taking the same photograph in 3 different exposures and then merging them together later in Photoshop. You have to use a tripod so as every scene is captured in exactly the same position.

Today was a great day so I headed off to Castlewellan to see what I could find (incidentally I did this after stopping off at tesco to take advantage of the great wine offer they have on at the moment) Anyway, yes so I arrived at Castlewellan, and obvious as it is I headed for the castle as I figured this was the best place to start. I had a magazine with an article about capturing the images with me, (you didn't think I could do it without some point of reference did you?)

I set up my gear and proceeded to take what I needed, it was lovely just getting away on my own, I even packed a lunch! I didn't feel particularly inspired to capture anything else so I headed home to get to work on some post production.

So below we have to of my best efforts, lots more to practice on in this area, got to try and think what else what be a great subject... Feel free to suggest something :)

It's a great new thing to try, and I believe it gives the pictures a great bit of punch. but got to be careful not to over do it.

K

The Final Piece

Here we have my final piece for the very last assignment for this year.

This is it all framed and ready to go to college tomorrow, complete with plastic still around the edges, oh and complete with a reflection of me, have to give the sense of glass ya know ;)

It turned out pretty decent, but sure true to form I've looked at it that much i'm not really a fan... The workbook is nearly complete, not the best work I've ever done, but it goes in to pretty decent detail about what I was trying to achieve here, maybe you'd like to put your own spin on that?

Hope you like..

Kaz x