HDR

  • Dispatch From Sierra Leone: Sunset

    Awful news from next door in Liberia in articles like this and this. Here in Freetown, we’ve gotten some relief from the rain, and (knocks on wood) the number of new ebola cases per day has slowed considerably.  Let’s hope the break in bad weather continues. Yes, this last one is an HDR trick.  More…

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  • Photography Tips: Kanchipuram, India – the “City of One Thousand Temples”

    We recently had the opportunity to visit Kanchipuram, a city about 70 km from Chennai.  Nicknamed “The City of Thousand Temples”, the city may well have temples approaching that number – we didn’t count.  Many of them are historically and architecturally significant, and the temples have made the city a major pilgrim destination, as it…

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  • Sunsets: Tonemapping vs Importing from RAW

    I’ve been playing around with tonemapping software – Photomatix – which can both be used to create HDR photos from bracketed JPEGs, and an HDR photo from a single RAW file. These are some photos I took of the same sunset (varying zoom levels), and I tonemapped some and just did a regular RAW-to-PNG conversion…

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  • Make an HDR Photo from a Single Exposure

    Yesterday I talked about HDR photography, and how you can combine multiple exposure photos of the same scene with software to ensure all the different parts of the scene are exposed the right amount.  What I didn’t mention is that you can also use the Photomatix software to create an HDR photo using “tonemapping” from…

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  • HDR Photography: First Attempts

    I’m sure everyone else has heard of “high dynamic range” or HDR photography, but for me, it’s “The Latest Thing” I’ve discovered. You know how you sometimes come across this amazing scene with lights and darks and bright colors, and you snap a photo to preserve it exactly as you saw it, and then you…

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