Happy New Year all!
OK. Im back on this blogging thing with a vengence. Hopefully with some consistency in the coming months. I wanted to share some HDR (High Dymnamic Range) photo experince I have picked up on, in the last month. Took a great course at Vancouver Photo Workshops which featured instruction from a pioneer in HDR imagary named Dan Durkholder. http://www.danburkholder.com/
I learned so much, and would highly recomend taking this course should he pass through your neck of the woods. I was impressed with his knowledge of HDR but was enthralled with his post processing Photoshop Prowess. There was no way to take it all in in the three day course. Luckily he provided us with some workbooks to take home and practice up. For those that dont know what HDR is check ou tthis great link that does a great job of explaining all. http://www.cybergrain.com/tech/hdr/. Basically speaking it is a process whereby you take multiple bracketed images of the same scene. Then you merge these images in photoshop into one 32 bit image. To complete the process you make the image inot a 16 bit image and tone map the image using a fantastic plug-in produced by a company called HDR Soft. They do an great job of explaining the process...much better then I. check it out.http://www.hdrsoft.com/.
I have been using this process trying to get the hang of it this past month...and here are some of the results.
Vancouver Sunrise from Cypress Mountain
Glimmering Trees
Stawamus Creek
