Camera’s View

Came across this vehicle during a foliage trip over the weekend.
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Post processing was accomplished utilizing Photomatix Pro 3.0, Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Lightroom.
Capture -

Three exposures 0, -2ev and +2ev were made using AEB and multiple sequence capture.
Exact alignment is critical to successful HDR processing. However since I was standing on the [...]

I was just curious to see what would happen if I took a single image that was processed as a jpeg right out of my camera, as shown here (untouched by Photoshop or Lightroom )
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and I then processed with Photomatix using tone mapping - results shown here -

and then to [...]

Original Exposures -

I have spent the last several months investigating techniques for creating High Dynamic Range Images. Based on my experience thus far I have some recommendations for getting started.
Online Resources -

First a video by Matt Kloskowski -Video - HDR and Lightroom, where Matt explores how to use Lightroom in a HDR workflow.
In [...]

Monday was a beautiful day on the North Shore of Massachusetts. My wife and I decided to see if we could make our way through the “Private” roads of Annisquam and make it out to the Annisquam Light.
I had been there years before and knew that parking was available for visitors.
I can understand why the [...]

Based on a suggestion of a friend, I decided to take another look at the illusion I was trying to create in the previous post. What I was trying to imply within the second image ( see previous post), was an illusion of a pending storm or a storm that had just left the area.
The [...]