On a completely unrelated note, today I stayed home sick from school and watched Mary Poppins. Although I should have been writing a paper for psychology class, Julie Andrews portraying a magical nanny is a lot more important in my books. And yeah, I could totally be writing that psych paper right now, but it's just not as fun as this!
If you don't know what HDR (High Dynamic Range) is, I'll tell you, and even if you do know, I'll tell you anyway. What it is is taking three (or more) photographs of the same subject, at different levels of exposure. The first being underexposed, the second being perfectly exposed, and the last being over exposed. When merged in Photoshop, the one photo takes on all the elements of the three differently exposed ones, making for a very dramatic picture (with editing included of course)! Overall, this was a very interesting, fun, and relatively simple method of photography to learn, that yielded what I think are pretty decent results. I wish however, that I went out on more cloudy days, as thats when the most dramatic HDR photos are taken (ex. old UBC building with blue sky above VS. church with rippled clouds).
If you don't know what HDR (High Dynamic Range) is, I'll tell you, and even if you do know, I'll tell you anyway. What it is is taking three (or more) photographs of the same subject, at different levels of exposure. The first being underexposed, the second being perfectly exposed, and the last being over exposed. When merged in Photoshop, the one photo takes on all the elements of the three differently exposed ones, making for a very dramatic picture (with editing included of course)! Overall, this was a very interesting, fun, and relatively simple method of photography to learn, that yielded what I think are pretty decent results. I wish however, that I went out on more cloudy days, as thats when the most dramatic HDR photos are taken (ex. old UBC building with blue sky above VS. church with rippled clouds).