Photography and HDR (page 2)

mynameislame

I stole the last one for my desktop background, hope you don't mind

ILoveTTATT

Hi ABibleStudent,

It is Lake Louise, in Alberta, Canada. Just 1 hour and 45 mins from Calgary, a major city in Alberta.

My pictures? I usually post them on Facebook (which kind of kills the picture), I tried being a photographer in Mexico but I wasn't too entrepenurial, I want to keep this as a hobby.

Seems like you like portrait photography. I have the "nifty fifty" lens which is f1.8, 55mm and you can get it for $100...

ILoveTTATT

Prologos: Yes, it is!! Simon, Jgnat and I live in this beautiful province!!

At first, I thought HDR was just about exposure (from the lightest white to the darkest black), but it also about a range of colors and "white balances"... The camera takes the entire picture in a single "white balance" but there is much variation in a single scene of white balances and exposure and other things. Our eyes, in combination with our brain, combine images to give a look that is much different than what the camera "sees".

ILoveTTATT

Mynameislame, no problem. Delighted that you like the picture that much.

I have other pictures that have ended up "natural"... Want to post them soon.

Found Sheep

nice job

LisaRose

That is really beautiful, I love landscape photography. I do a little, nothing of that caliber. I have an OK camera, a step up from the cheaper digitals, but I want to get a digital SLR. My favorite thing is extreme close ups of flowers, or other plants, I have two macro settings, so that helps. I like the process of getting really close and getting every thing to focus correctly. I also have a photo editing program, but it is very hard to learn and I can't do much with it. It's frustrating, as I wanted to more with it, it's just not intuitive. I usually can bumble around and figure things out (I taught myself to program), but not with this. I guess I need to take a class or at least a tutorial.

NVR2L8

I took the exact same photo a few years ago during a conference I attended at the Fairmount...and it was for the introduction of a new type of mirrorless camera with interchangeable lenses also known as compact system camera that uses a full size APS-C sensor. HDR is now available on smartphones like the new Galaxy S5...I know the 16 megapixel phone camera doesn't perform like a real camera...but most users will sacrifice some picture quality for convenience.

Nathan Natas

You might want to take a look at Picture Window Pro by Digital Light & Color.

http://dl-c.com/

Digital Light & Color was founded in 1993 by Jonathan Sachs -- the programmer who created the first version of Lotus 1-2-3 back in 1982. The company has been distributing its electronic darkroom software, Picture Window, since 1994. Picture Window has been favorably reviewed in such publications as Petersen's Photographic, PC Magazine, Shutterbug, and Outdoor Photographer. Digital Light & Color is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The full program is $89.95.

Good work!

ablebodiedman

Any thoughts?

That is a nice photo!

I like photography too.

It is a relaxing way to remove stress when I can get my thoughts thinking only about how I want the outcome of a photograph.

A way I suggest to improve on the photograph above would be to try and get something in the foreground.

A rock, tree stump, vegetation on the near shoreline or in the water close to the shore...............

Also I think the white line on the far shore that divides the lake from the trees makes the photo more interesting.

Is there a way to emphasize that line and or extend it across the entire far shore?

I do like the sky better in the underexposed frame than the final HDR.

Can you use a brush to turn down the exposure and increase some contrast in the two spots in the sky which have a lot of highlights, bring the clouds back? Use the "burn" part of the "dodge and burn" technique?

abe

ablebodiedman

Another thing you could try is to use a ND filter and/or smaller aperture so that you could have a much longer exposure.

An exposure long enough to smooth out the ripples in the lake and make the reflections more mirror like.

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