25 June 2008

 

High-definition Fairview

Today I had a meeting with the trial nurse for my upcoming resumed chemo treatments next month, followed by a series of blood tests, an appointment with my oncologist and the nurse again, then a CT scan. In between, I had some time to kill, so I had lunch at White Spot, then took time to walk around the Fairview neighbourhood and experiment some more with high dynamic range (HDR) photography.

Here are the results:

Vancouver City Hall HDR Construction HDR Under the Foliage HDR
Purple Plant HDR Mountain Grate HDR 1 Hubcaps for Sale HDR

For each photo, I set my Nikon D50 camera to take three bracketed exposures: one at the default exposure the camera estimates, one two stops darker, and one two stops lighter. Then I used Photomatix Pro on my Mac to assemble them into HDR images, then tone-map them into the pictures you see. It's fun.

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Comments:

do you know of any non-mac tools that can do this? It does look cool, but my machine is limited to Vista or Linux.
# posted by Blogger iTripped : 26 June, 2008 07:09
 
Photomatix runs on Windows, and there's also a Photoshop plugin. I believe you can also do it manually in Photoshop (or presumably in the GIMP on Linux).

A Google search comes up with lots of tutorials on HDR for Linux too.
# posted by Blogger Derek : 26 June, 2008 08:07