Taking a picture at high noon can create harsh shadows and blown out highlights in your photos. This picture was taken at 12:30 pm in the afternoon shooting into harsh sunlight. If your subject is close you can balance the light with fill flash, but when your subject is large like Niagara Falls that is impossible to do. So I used a technique called HDR ( high dynamic range ) in CS3 where I merged 5 images of various exposures of the same subject. By taking only the best part of each picture and loading that data into one photograph I can maintain shadow and highlight detail. This image was shot with a Nikon D3 at ISO 200, 1/500 sec @ f 11. Nine bracketed exposures were taken in burst made. Four under exposed and four over exposed and one normal exposure. I only needed 5 of the nine to bring out the details I wanted. I think this technique has merit and can be used in high contrast situations.
1 comment:
That is absolutely beautiful!
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