11-20-13 – High Dynamic Range Photography 4

Elsinore, DrPainMD’s first entry seems to be selective color.

*sigh* — We’ve had nothing but rain since this one was announced. I have one in-camera HDR I took just to test it on the new camera. I’ll post to it to up the numbers 🙂

Same with the 2-wheelers last week (Grats Pope, loved the shot) — About the only two-wheelers I saw in all the rain was trash bins, and I didn’t think that would add much.

One thing you can do is look at the Hoppered Themes (look in the Themes forum) so you can be shooting for any of those when you are out and about. If I see something that relates to a hoppered contest, I’ll shoot it, even if it hasn’t been scheduled yet. That way I’m not in the position you’re in.

Ah! That’s helpful (I saw the topic area, but figured I’d let people who’ve done this longer than I have figure that kind of thing out…). I see how that works, now.

It’s especially helpful since the Tools theme isn’t really dependent on weather conditions, and our forecast actually has the rain ending for the next week…. And I have my first non-cheap-disposable lens arriving in a couple of days.

Thanks orionid, also have a non-HDR version here: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-zOQZQJO3TTQ/Uei0uHa4NOI/AAAAAAAATcQ/Gq6aB4w6Xis/s800/IMG_0582-Edit-Edit.jpg that I did before. Not sure which version I prefer, they’re both cool in their own way.

For some reason, I never think about shooting multiple exposures for HDR until I’m looking through the results later so (combined with time constraints) I didn’t have much to work with this week. I did manage to scrape up some entries from back when I got my first DSLR and was still playing with the features. I don’t think they’re top ten entries, but they’re entries at least.

CISS, same here. I very seldom bracket exposure unless I’m really afraid of screwing things up so I didn’t have many to choose from. Plus the whole HDR experience made me feel kind of dirty.