These images are my first shot at High Dynamic Range photography. This requires multiple shots of the same scene and usually requires a tripod. The scene needs to be exactly the same but with each image having a different exposure. Having said that I did not use a tripod for these. The Photo Matrix software will align the images but these are still differences between each image like the leaves of a tree moving. All you can do is try to avoid that. These are usually created from three images but a few use five. Guess what, it is hard to hold a camera stable for five consecutive shots. I didn’t kill myself trying to perfect image and usually took something like the default from Photo Matrix (the HDR generating software) and then processed the generated image again in Photoshop. Do not try this at home! Needless to say there is a decent amount of work per image and well, you had better love this kind of thing. It ain’t snapshots. Eventually cameras may take these kinds of photos (or the simple HDR images) and some of this processing will be unnecessary.

        The images are a who cares set from Franklin Tennessee, Lake Martin Alabama, Atlanta … not much for content but trial images for learning. If you do a Google image search for HDR you will see some truly stunning images. I will try to emulate some of those I the future

        Oh yeah, the images are large. I tried to keep them at a reasonable size so as to demonstrate the image quality. Translating the files to a JPEG file from the Photoshop’s TIFF file immediately reduced the quality and it was further degraded when I reduced the image resolution. Can’t win here. Most of the images are three or four meg so you’ve been warned.

NOTE: In Internet Explorer the image may be fitted to the screen by holding down the control key (ctrl) and pressing the "0" (number zero) key.

 Tom June 2011