{"id":5589,"date":"2011-09-19T09:35:45","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/?p=5589"},"modified":"2011-09-19T09:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T18:56:40","slug":"welcome-to-hdr-sunset-seldovia-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/welcome-to-hdr-sunset-seldovia-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to HDR: Sunset, Seldovia, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HDR is good. HDR is bad. Think what you want, HDR is here to stay, just like full body scans at the airport.<\/p>\n

While I’ve certainly seen my share of HDR imagery, some of which I really like, (Ken Kaminesky<\/a>, Scott Frederick<\/a>)\u00a0I haven’t really had a chance to experiment in the HDR realm with my own imagery.<\/p>\n

Part of this is because I’m such a purist. Ok, not really, but I like to pretend that I am sometimes. Really, it’s because I just haven’t devoted any time to it yet. Like anything else, becoming proficient with HDR takes time, and between photographing, writing, playing outside and flying the little yellow Cessna, I find myself a little short on that stuff.<\/p>\n

Anyway, while in Seldovia this weekend, I came across what seemed to be a perfect scene for HDR experimentation. Resting my Nikon D700<\/a> w\/ 24mm f\/2.8 lens<\/a> on the bridge railing, I shot a series of images at different exposures down the slough and merged them together using the Adobe Photoshop CS5 “Merge to HDR Pro” command. After a few quick slider tweaks, I ended up with this shot above. (The lightest and darkest of the 5-image series are below.)<\/p>\n

I like it, but I’m new at this. You can tell because it’s still pretty subtle. My purist side is keeping the reins tight, at least for now. I suppose I could have lightened the houses a little more. Let me know what you think. Should I go more drastic or does this work?<\/p>\n

In the end, HDR is just a tool that offers increased creativity and I’m excited to keep experimenting with it and looking for possibilities where it might apply in my own photography.<\/p>\n

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HDR is good. HDR is bad. Think what you want, HDR is here to stay, just like full body scans at the airport. While I’ve certainly seen my share of HDR imagery, some of which I really like, (Ken Kaminesky, Scott Frederick)\u00a0I haven’t really had a chance to experiment in the HDR realm with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[70,14,72,272,98,20,89],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danbaileyphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}