Slowly starting the day
Posted by: Rich in Digital Photography, Notes from Gadget, Photo of the Day, PhotoshopAh, time off. No racing around this morning. No radio on to find out the news of the day. Just a slow and steady start to the day.
Oh yeah….I slept in until 8 a.m.! I did wakeup around 5, some light coming through the vent cover, but I strategically placed a pillow and went back to sleep. Sometimes light can be overcome by the common pillow!
After getting up I made a few calls back to New England. Mostly I reached nobody! They’re all out doing stuff, after all they’re 3 hours ahead of me and I woke up late.
While I made my phone calls I did a little organizing in the trailer, and charged up all my camera batteries. Re-stuffed the new Crumpler bag, got the 30 & 40D cameras ready, and charged my flash batteries as well. The rodeo is tonight you know.
I also messed around with a series of photos I shot weeks ago. Remember my mentioning HDR images? Yeah, they’ve still been on my mind, but I’d been doing the 7 Point System. One major project at a time. The next major project is coming up. I now want to really learn about HDR. I’ve got a few ideas you see……
So, this morning I gave Photomatix Pro a whirl. I also tried the HDR setup in Photoshop once more. The image you see here today was done with Photomatix. I’ve only started experimenting, so cut me a little slack on this first true venture into HDR. I used their default settings, and didn’t get far into tone mapping.
Why?
Time for breakfast & a shower. Then to start the day. Plus I had to pop a post up you know.
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I’ve had decent results by using photoshop to merge the HDR, then saving it as a radiance file type. Then open the radiance file with photomatix and tone map it there.
Worth a try right?
Mostly nobody here… I enjoyed our chat on Saturday, Rich. I was glad to speak with you after reading your blog and I hope you will let me know when you are coming to NE so we can get together.