So forgive me for posting on something that others have been doing for some time now but as I have told my students in the past, it doesn't matter if it has been done before, it's what you do with it that counts.
So here are a few forays into the world of HDR.
I feel a bit nostalgic about this picture as it was done during a sunny time in Vancouver. A time which seems sadly long gone and due to return not for many months.
If you don't know about HDR perhaps I can take a few minutes to give you the basics. HDR is an acronym which means "High Dynamic Range", it means that by stacking multiple pictures over top of each other, each taken at a different exposure, one can extend the range of the capture beyond what we normally see. This means that we can see color in the shadows even though they might normally be seen as black. So by doing say, 5 different exposures from two stops under exposed to 2 stops over exposed, stacking them together in Photoshop, and using a very sophisticated program like PHOTOMATIX by HDRSoft, we can create a picture that "sees" into the shadows while maintaining highlight quality.
The look is very illustrative but also photographic.
I got a chance to use this technique in September when we went north to visit our friends, Steve and Juliette in their wonderful hand-built home. Here's an interior looking into their living room from the staircase.
You can see the love that has been put into this house over the years. It has been built from trees that were growing on the property and recycled materials that they managed to scrounge. As you can see, these people have big hearts and great imaginations.
Here's the yard to the west with the greenhouse.
How could we not feel inspired by beauty such as this?
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