It's been pretty sucky weather wise for the past several days much of our short summer. But it makes it easier to take delight in a shaft of light illuminating a mountain through the dark sky.
Bright shining moments
It's been pretty sucky weather wise for the past several days much of our short summer. But it makes it easier to take delight in a shaft of light illuminating…
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Wonderful lighting! Are you using that special technique that the Pang blogger uses (I forget his name), or is it just a great camera? (plus great technique of course, and the perfection of subject matter that is Arctic Bay!) It almost justifies the sucky weather.
I’ve started using HDR (High Dynamic Range) a little bit Nancy, but this is just a regular photo. I tweaked the contrast a little, but just a little.
Strangely I haven’t warmed to HDR as much as I thought I would. The photo in “Placemarker” post is HDR, but I think I like the regular one better. I’ll eventually post that in my camping post.
I love the HDR photos on the Pang blog, but I find them to be surreal. Evocative, and in an emotionally accurate way, yet not physically accurate, so I have mixed feelings about them too. They’re breathtaking, yet also kind of vaguely disturbing in their subtle inaccuracy, for want of another word. But I guess that feeling of being “put on edge” is part of what the technique achieves, and I like that too.
That’s probably the best description of my thoughts. I’ve enjoyed them, not so much in my own photos. I note that in the couple of months or so since I started using it I only have fifteen images. The image of the iceberg through the great room window would have been almost impossible without resorting to it, because of the different values inside and out. Well, not without a lot of lighting equipment and more technical knowhow than I possess. But it does have a certain “cartoony” feel to it, none the less. It is probably the most satisfying HDR image of the fifteen for me.