Saturday 21 May 2016

HDR done properly

Usually your eye can see the water under the trees and move seamlessly to the blue of the sky but a camera cannot. Now Nikon can get closer than any other system but the details would simply not come out.
In the past this technique was used too in very high end photo images. High end, because it would take the better part of a day to merge three five or even seven different exposures. And while it's not a cincture, it sure doesn't take a day.

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  1. It's a beautiful photo, so clear and crisp. What is the building that sits along the water?
    Is that a cafe or some kind o patio next door? Those little flower pots along the edge are so cute. Adds some nice pops of color.

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    1. It's a bit washed out. But that was the day. And if I pushed the yellows the blues would've made it wintery.
      And I'd not seen the flowerpots, and they are cute.
      It was a corn/wheat drying mill that's they the number of floors. And I'd say it had a capacity to mill too. Nowadays it a shop of some sort. It had dresses hanging on a hook outside last day I was there. I've never gone in so I don't know for certain.

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    2. I agree with Kelly. I don't find it washed out either. It looks like a bright day.
      But I do know what you are talking about. The white sky is my biggest frustration when photographing outdoors. It does wash out. I don't see it in your photo, but I think when you take it you know what it did look like. When that's not what the photograph shows, it doesn't look as good as expected. To the unseen eye, it looks great.

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  2. Sitting along the water like that, I would have guessed a mill or such originally.

    Perhaps my eye is not so discriminating as yours, but I find it to be a beautiful photo without any faults. Funny... my phone camera will often snap a pic twice, the second shown as HDR. I normally prefer the first.

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    1. The second is added to the first one probably to get the sky in. It's like you focus on someone in front of a window. The first shot is of the person and the room, the second will only get eh light outside that in the first one would've been pure white. In a way it no longer matters since photos are so rarely printed these days. But if you do print, anything blown to white on a photo will not lay down ink on the photo paper.

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