Monday, January 25, 2010

Rainy Days & Mondays

Project 365 - Day 6


I was tempted to start constructing an Ark today because I was sure a flood was a-comin' lol.  We had downpours all day and 50-60 mph winds and there several flood warnings in our area.  I took the photo above through our sliding glass door this afternoon.  Even though it looks like the color was changed to black and white, that is the actual color photo I took.  That is how gray it was today.  On to something brighter...

A few months ago I came across the photography website Stuck In Customs which features primarily HDR photos.  The webmaster, Trey Ratcliff, is a fantastic photographer and focuses on the HDR (High Dynamic Range) technique with most of his photos.  HDR is a post-processing technique that adds alot of contrast, depth, and dimension to a photo and makes the colors much more vibrant.  The colors in the finished product are still natural, but just more enhanced.  When I saw Trey's work I knew I had to learn more about this type of process and try it myself.

Below is a photo taken in September that I have posted here before.  It is straight out of the camera and has not been edited at all (other than resizing it).  I thought this would be a good photo to test this technique out on.  This is the before:



And this is after applying the HDR processing:



You can click on the photo above to enlarge it which will show a lot more detail.  This is my first attempt at this and I am pretty happy with the result.  I cannot wait to get out and take some more photos so I can try this again!

3 comments:

  1. you definitely can see a difference in the two pictures from the you "tweaked" and the original one you took, very interesting technique!

    stay safe! I think we sent you all our rain; that was our weather pattern for most of last eek

    betty

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  2. LOL; not last "eek" but last wee

    betty

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  3. oops, keyboard keeps sticking "week" :)

    betty

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