The Unframed World
Photography Tips, Travel Photos, Photo Critiques, Interviews
Oh, how the nanocycles seem to fly by. One minute you’re welcoming brand new RAW files onto your hard drive, and the next they’re finished with tone mapping, almost fully mature HDR photos. Isn’t it always the way? Nostalgic sighs become me… haaaaaahhhhhhh… (that’s how I sigh, leave me alone).
So this is it gang, the final piece in the HDR Lifecycle series. Before I dig in and put you to sleep with drivel about masking techniques or layer adjustments, I wanted to reinforce two points:
This article, Tone Mapping Puberty, reveals how tone mapping works and explains how to use Photomatix to produce a crucial image in the development of any HDR photo.
This HDR tutorial covers step-by-step how I edited this HDR panorama to it’s completed state from bracketed source DNGs to final Photoshop edit. This is certainly not the only way to accomplish similar results. HDR panoramas are fickle beasts, but my methods work for me.
Maine beaches, in Winter, are for the hardcore. Equipped with waxed boards, steely gazes, and dry suits winter surfers don’t mess around. Interestingly, I met someone I knew while shooting and was able to capture this stoic HDR photo of him.
Getting permission to photograph the Merrill Auditorium was less complicated than I originally thought. Recently, I’ve been getting into HDR photography. Like regular photographs, HDR photos need an excellent subject to look amazing. Unfortunately, unlike an abandoned building, you can’t just waltz into the Merrill Auditorium. However, I figured it couldn’t hurt to take the direct approach and it worked out perfectly.