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Kongsten Fort.



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BRYCE

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Originally posted by Lontano:

Nice. A single image or composite? If it is single exposure it was incredible to get the sky, opera house and water all well exposed. I'd be tempted to photoshop some full-moon detail onto the white disc - but that would be cheating .

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:

Nice. A single image or composite? If it is single exposure it was incredible to get the sky, opera house and water all well exposed. I'd be tempted to photoshop some full-moon detail onto the white disc - but that would be cheating .

The photo is exactly as taken - no trickery. I was sitting having dinner at Doyles fish restaurant and looked out and saw this wonderful view that I had to take a picture of. This was at 6.30pm in the evening.

I had to handhold this picture as I did not have a tripod with me, so I put the camera on ISO 3200 and took this shot. Even with the high ISO I was able to blow this picture up to a 36 * 24 inch print and the quality was awesome - no noise whatsoever.

This is a "correct" exposure of the scene. A combination of blown highlights and no shadow detail.




This is a 3-shot HDR combo (The image above is the middle exposure). Sure, this one's a bit "fake" and cartoony/videogame, but it more closely resembles the detail I could see with naked eye as I took the shots. I'm convinced. It is my very first HDR effort (with Photomatix plug-in).

This also from my apartment this evening. No HDR - just underexposed a stop-or-two...

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:


This also from my apartment this evening. No HDR - just underexposed a stop-or-two...

Winky,

That is a striking shot. I love those deep tones and the depth that the low building with hardly any lights in the foreground gives. You make me feel guilty since I hardly touched my D200 in the last six weeks.

You might be interested in the work of Michael Wolf who just came out with a photography book of buildings in Chicago, a lot of them taken at night.



By the way, what is HDR?

Regards,
Haim

HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is a digital processing technique that is currently very trendy. Basically, you take a few bracketed shots of the same scene then combine them with software. Put simply, the highlights are mostly taken from the underexposed shot and the shadow details come from the overexposed shot. It's sort of like reducing the contrast of your image, but it picks up a lot more detail. I works best if the shots are exactly aligned, but the software tries to correct what it can.

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is a digital processing technique that is currently very trendy.

Thanks.

I was afraid that it was going to be something hydrolic. I am way too slow to catch up with all those trends so I am just happy to be out of touch.

Another question: was your original image a vertical or an horizontal one?

Haim

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Originally posted by Haim Ronen:

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:
HDR stands for High Dynamic Range and is a digital processing technique that is currently very trendy.

Thanks.

I was afraid that it was going to be something hydrolic. I am way too slow to catch up with all those trends so I am just happy to be out of touch.

Another question: was your original image a vertical or an horizontal one?

Haim

Horizontal

This is different idea. Same scene, different exposure.

Link below to the MW site. Thanks for the tip, Haim.

Michael Wolf - Transparent City

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Originally posted by winkyincanada:
This is different idea. Same scene, different exposure.

Link below to the MW site. Thanks for the tip, Haim.

Michael Wolf - Transparent City

Michael Wolf's book is very large and its images are very impressive.
I am definitely going to drag my tripod to the city and do some night shooting before it gets to be too cold.

Haim

I took a trip to the Mosquito Museum near London Colney for the first time today. Here's a couple of photos of the prototype Mosquito a few yards from where she was built in secrecy:





Difficult light, and no space!

Tony

Turimetta Beach Sydney

Sydney Skyline

Haim,
That shot you mailed me a few weeks ago of that thing with 8 legs, you should post it.
Munch

Here's one for you Munch - a Sydney Funnel Web, the world's most poisonous and dangerous supposedly. I fished this out of the pool in our garden. Used to get one or two a year.


By the way, the spider in the bottom picture is very much alive and dangerous.

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Originally posted by Lontano:
Turimetta Beach Sydney

Hang on - isnt that the inside cover of Yes "fragile" by Roger Dean....

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Originally posted by John M:
Hang on - isnt that the inside cover of Yes "fragile" by Roger Dean....

Do you mean this one? It's the Close to the Edge album. Had never thought of that!

Jonn knows his album covers.

the first time I wrote close to the edge then edited it to fragile. i was going on memory, and i second guessed meself. But it is eerily close , no?

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Originally posted by John M:
the first time I wrote close to the edge then edited it to fragile. i was going on memory, and i second guessed meself. But it is eerily close , no?

John you have mail
Munch

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Originally posted by John M:
But it is eerily close , no?

It certainly is. Roger must have been to Sydney! That beach is a very lovely place and very popular with photographers. I got there one morning at 5am and there were about 10 other people as mad as me.