DianaT
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Experiment Photo with a Setting Sun
Pix was taken from our front porch in Baja----an experiment
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Barry A.
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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!!!
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DianaT
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| Quote: | 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.  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
[Edited on 11-12-2010 by DianaT]
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Remember when you were a kid, laying in the grass looking up at the clouds?
Great photo Diane, once again.
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake every time you repeat it.
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DianaT
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| Quote: | 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. 
[Edited on 11-12-2010 by DianaT]
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Natalie Ann
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Nice work, Diane.
The triple-exposure merge has always been a favorite of mine.
nena
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Yeah....An HDR effort such as yours has to be shot fast. Those clouds look like they're really moving along.
Good shot, Diane.
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DianaT
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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.
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Thanks as always... really enjoy the work...
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Bob H
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Very nice work indeed!
Thank you.
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I think you swiped this photo from a National geographic magazine 
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Frank
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Looks really great Diana. The clouds draw your eye through the whole shot.
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Nice!! The clouds appear to be moving. cool
Here is a free, open source image program, as good as photoshop!
http://www.gimp.org/
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DianaT
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mcfez
I think you swiped this photo from a National geographic magazine
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 Good think
I got a corner of Laurieboats house in the pix
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. ????
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mcfez
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TRY THIS
www.hdrlabs.com/picturenaut/index.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTmtkXJQRZ0
Water mark? Where?
[Edited on 11-13-2010 by mcfez]
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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