Uninhabited Images
Available Light
Posted by Eric Fry (Houston, TX, United States) on 25 August 2008 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.
"All Four Winds together can't bring the world to me;
Shadows hide the play of light, so much I want to see.
Chase the light around the world,
I want to look at life in the Available Light"
"Available Light" - Rush
This one is from three exposures 1 EV apart. Photomatix recommends using a spacing of 2 EV, but my camera seem to overcompensate at those spacings, giving one good exposure, one completely blown out, and one almost entirely black. This is a fun program to play with, but I don't think I'll be doing a great deal of HDR work, as I can get pretty close in Lightroom for a lot of shots. I do like the details in the clouds shadows and the light rays, though. It will make a lot of extra work, as the photos need to go through Lightroom twice just for the noise reduction. It's a bit over-saturated, but I liked the enhancement it brought to the light rays.
There are a couple of blotches near the top that I tried to clone out, but I'm not too good at that yet. I didn't realize that the sea spray had gotten on my lens...
Thanks for visiting, and I hope you all have a great day,
Eric
Check out the photography of a friend of mine outside of Aminus3:
Brian Dykes' Blue Echoes Photography - Beautiful nature and city images from the guy that turned me on to Adobe Lightroom
COOLPIX P5100
1/1000 second
F/7.7
ISO 64
13 mm