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HDR Photography-St.Catherine and Stanley

So today’s HDR Photography is an image of St.Catherine and Stanley st. I shot on a rainy summer morning in 2009.

I really like shooting downtown on rainy days the store lights are reflected in the sidewalks and street.
You get that extra pop of color and as an added bonus there was some fog hanging around the top of the taller buildings.
The post production will vary from one photographer to another as will opinions on HDR photography. Some think it gimmicky
and not serious photography while others seem to make a very good living off of it.

Luminous Landscape is another website with a vast amount of information on a wide range of photography topics including HDR photography.
This link will take you directly to the HDR photography tutorial.

HDR Photography-St.Catherine and Stanley st.

HDR Photography-Montreal

My latest submission in the Montreal HDR photography category is this shot from way back in 2008.

This shot is looking up University st. at the St. Jacques intersection.

I’m sure you have noticed that my version of HDR photography is not processed to the extremes of HDR
with the exception of a few images.

High Dynamic Range Photography using multiple images to try and recreate the dynamic range of the human eye
and perhaps a little more is what interests me. If you would like more information on HDR there is a very good
tutorial on cambridge in colour.

While I’m on the subject of tutorials, cambridge in colour has a large library of tutorials on a wide range of photographic
topics. They also have a free forum community with some 16,000 members a very good resource for a person new to photography in general.

HDR photography University st. and St.Jacques Montreal Canada

HDR photography-Concordia University

I was going through some images I shot last summer and came across this one of Concordia University.
In keeping with my latest theme HDR photography. I processed nine exposures of this image, each one
one stop more than the last starting at 4 stops under exposed to 4 stops over exposed.

I do plan on going out and shooting some new images for this HDR project, but at the present time
I have a cold and don’t feel much like going out.

Now on to the image, I used camera raw 6.6 to produce the exposures and then combined them with photomatix.
(By the way there were updates today for camera raw 6.6 and Lightroom 3.6 which can be found here)
In photomatix using the tone mapping I adjusted the image until it looked good to me and exported it
as a sixteen bit tiff.

Then brought it into photoshop for further processing, I won’t go into detail but there was many layers and ended up being a six hundred mb file.

Anyhow, hope you like it here you go……………HDR Photography Concordia University 2
HDR photography-Concordia University

HDR Photography-St.Anges of Lachine

HDR Photography-St.Anges of Lachine
I have done HDR photography before but haven’t really thought much about that style of photography for quite some time.
While out for a morning walk, I grabbed this quick shot of St.Anges’s and continued on my way.

Anyhow, after watching Justin Seeley on creativeLIVE last week he was doing a couple of workshops a three day course WordPress for Photographers and a one day course Designing for the Social Web. Of which I watched all four days and highly recommend, anyhow so your asking yourself what heck does any of that have to do with HDR photography.

In the WordPress for Photographers course Justin uses some of his own HDR images in different examples of wordpress image manipulation. Which gave me the idea to make the St.Angess image into a HDR image.

This majestic catholic church looked really good in the rain with it’s oxidized copper steeples and richly textured stone facade.
It seemed like a very good candidate indeed, so I decided to see what I could create with a simple unplanned shot.

Now this image was not shot with the intention of producing a HDR image. But I always shoot in RAW so it was possible by processing three different
exposures, I was able to get this result.

I have to thank Justin for renewing my interest in HDR photography and for making me aware of a truly amazing HDR artist Tray Radcliff.

Here is the results of my efforts………….
HDR Photography-St.Anges of Lachine

Updated image of St.Anges of Lachine
I decided to process another image of St.Anges of Lachine from my archives.
St.Anges of Lachine

glenn mcilwaine - Nice picture,

How is everything going?,hope your doing well.

Tell Rosemary i said hi.

Peaches Pears and Apples

Well, I just had to shoot something this morning.

So, first I went to my favorite fruit and veggie store fruiterie dollard and bought peaches,pears,apples and some strawberries.

Then a quick visit to the dollar store for some placemats,plates,bowls.
Put it all together and we have a plate of peaches,pears and apples.

The strawberries are scheduled for the next photo shoot.

Peaches-Pears-and-Apples

Kelly - I really like this one! I would hang that up in my kitchen. Very pretty.

kev - Thanks Kelly, that’s the look I was going for.

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