BajaNomad

Experiment Photo with a Setting Sun

DianaT - 11-11-2010 at 10:25 PM

Pix was taken from our front porch in Baja----an experiment

Barry A. - 11-11-2010 at 10:55 PM

Nice, Diana. I can NEVER take those kind of back-lighted shots, and yours came out super-------well done.

(now, how do you do that?)

Barry

by the way---nice view!!!

DianaT - 11-11-2010 at 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by Barry A.
Nice, Diana. I can NEVER take those kind of back-lighted shots, and yours came out super-------well done.

(now, how do you do that?)

Barry

by the way---nice view!!!


Ah shucks--guess I need to tell. :biggrin: This experiment is thanks to Ken Bondy! A while back he suggested to Russ with his wonderful sunrise photos, that he might try using HDR.

I mentioned that I had downloaded program that I have not paid for yet---notice the mark in the picture.

It is a program where one can use 3 or more photos with different exposures and merge them together and play with the result. I had only done this before with a single photo with changing the exposure. Ken not only stated that the result was much better with three separate photos of the same shot with three different exposures, he suggested a specific technique.

Before I had read that one needed to use a tripod, but Ken said try it with a bracketed exposure and use a fast speed and rapid fire.

So this was an experiment with using Ken's suggestions and I look forward to trying it again!

These are the three original photos used to create one photo







These were shot with only +1 and -1 on the exposure---working on another one with a +2 and -2 exposure bracket.

Now, the view---well that cannot be made better than it is---it is wonderful and we love it.

Diana






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danaeb - 11-11-2010 at 11:18 PM

Remember when you were a kid, laying in the grass looking up at the clouds?

Great photo Diane, once again.

DianaT - 11-11-2010 at 11:21 PM

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Originally posted by danaeb
Remember when you were a kid, laying in the grass looking up at the clouds?

Great photo Diane, once again.


Thanks---never too old to kick back and watch the clouds drift by, change and create new images---it is still one of my favorite things. :yes:

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Natalie Ann - 11-12-2010 at 08:28 AM

Nice work, Diane.
The triple-exposure merge has always been a favorite of mine.

nena

DENNIS - 11-12-2010 at 08:35 AM

Yeah....An HDR effort such as yours has to be shot fast. Those clouds look like they're really moving along.
Good shot, Diane.

DianaT - 11-12-2010 at 10:29 AM

Thanks Nena and Dennis.

Another thing to play with. :-) Some really interesting things can be done with the HDR, and I think I will end up paying for the program.

Those clouds were moving right along---and I really do love just watching them.

wessongroup - 11-12-2010 at 11:08 AM

Thanks as always... really enjoy the work...

Bob H - 11-12-2010 at 11:18 AM

Very nice work indeed!
Thank you.

mcfez - 11-12-2010 at 01:13 PM

I think you swiped this photo from a National geographic magazine ;)

Frank - 11-12-2010 at 04:00 PM

Looks really great Diana. The clouds draw your eye through the whole shot.

willyAirstream - 11-12-2010 at 06:26 PM

Nice!! The clouds appear to be moving. cool

Here is a free, open source image program, as good as photoshop!
http://www.gimp.org/

DianaT - 11-13-2010 at 08:28 AM

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Originally posted by mcfez
I think you swiped this photo from a National geographic magazine ;)


:lol::lol:Good think I got a corner of Laurieboats house in the pix :lol::lol:


Thanks for the nice comments---those clouds were really beautiful that day.

I looked at the gimp program just for a minute, and it does look like it does much of photoshop does. I do not have the professional photoshop, just the Elements7 which does so much more than I have figured out.

But this HDR program is a separate program. This one is from http://www.hdrsoft.com/free HDR dowload

The free version, however, will put the water mark on the photo until one decides to purchase it. This I will keep playing with it for a while and then will probably purchase it unless someone can recommend a better HDR program. ????

TRY THIS

mcfez - 11-13-2010 at 03:52 PM

www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/index.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmtkXJQRZ0

Water mark? Where?



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