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....or High Dynamic Range in the Forest of Dean.
Puzzle Wood to be exact - an absolutely fabulous place that I didn't know about until Saturday. Shameful really as I used to work at 'Beechams' (developing new types of Lucozade and Ribena) which is just one field away from this place and I lived not even half a mile away.
More details here: Puzzle Wood - Forest of Dean website - E&A Details
Anyway, I spent a couple of hours here and I could have easily spent a lot more time there - there is so much potential here you could easily shoot the day away - yet I only brushed the surface of what is really possible.
Given the low light levels I had to use a tripod and decided I've have a play with HDR. Basically you take a series of bracketed shots and then use software to blend them all together so that you end up with a photo with detail in the highest of highlites and the lowest of lowlites given the image an almost hyper-real sense.
You can download a demo of Photomatix which makes the whole thing really really easy and much better than the script in CS3.
The software has a batch convert facility which made converting the photos really very simple and I then ran the finals through the batch in Irfanview to downsize them. You can see from the images that the demo version adds a watermark.
Anyway, photos are below. I'd love to return to see the effect of the different seasons on the light and flowers.
Let me know what you think.
My Equipment:
Nexus ND70 Housing, Nikon D70, Nikon 60, 105 and 200 mm Micro Lenses with Manual Focus Multiport System, Nikon 12-24mm, Nikon 10.5mm; with FP-170 Dome port; Dual Inon Strobes on ULCS arms. And one Concerned Bank Manager
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My Equipment:
Nexus ND70 Housing, Nikon D70, Nikon 60, 105 and 200 mm Micro Lenses with Manual Focus Multiport System, Nikon 12-24mm, Nikon 10.5mm; with FP-170 Dome port; Dual Inon Strobes on ULCS arms. And one Concerned Bank Manager
Skype username: timing2211
Tim,
Nice set of shots. I think forests are an ideal place for HDR. I like the fact there is no evidence of ghosting that you see so often when people do HDR with bright skies in. I also like the fact this would be ideal practice for UWP.
Not trying to steal your thread, but here's a HDR I did in Babbacombe in 2006. Didn't use a tripod, so this comes from a RAW images that was processed three different ways:
Original is here:
Rob
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My Kit: Nikon D80, Nikon 60mm macro, Sigma 105mm macro, Tokina 10-17mm. Ikelite housing with twin Inon z240 strobes.
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Some great pictures there Tim, you could imagine Anthony Worrall Thomson jumping out at any time shouting I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!!!!!
Rob, thanks for posting the comparison pictures!
Why can't I work Photoshop?
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