A bouquet of roses - HDR Photography
Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 2:26PM Yesterday, our friends got us a bouquet of roses for the pooja. They are really beautiful roses and have a rich variety of colors.
The photo crazy idiot that I am, started taking pictures of the flowers. The colds were captured but somehow the depth of the roses were not coming out on the JPG's.
Then thought of using the HDR software and shot a series of pictures with the tripod and set it to a 2.4 second exposure with a range of aperture settings from
4.0,4.5, 6.0, 6.3, 7.1, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0, 13.0, 18.0, 20.0
and then using the software superimposed select pictures to get a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image from this subset.
Sure enough, the image takes on more depth and gets the bright and dark ares of the roses to have the same amount of detail..
Here are two such composites.
One with almost all of the aligned images..
and one with a smaller subset..
Two realizations at the end of the photo editing process.
1. HDR is the closest I have seen a photograph capture what we see with our eyes.
2. Our eyes are way ahead! Way way way way ahead than any camera or software. God is the most brilliant camera maker! He provides us fantastic subjects like roses and fantastic images to our brain, courtesy of some amazing cameras, our eyes.
The fun continues tonight. Planning to go to my all time favorite, most photographed architectural subject in the bay area tonight..
No marks for guessing what that is!
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HDR, flowers, god, high dynamic range, photoblog, photography
Reader Comments (2)
Sundar.. those roses caught my eye at first sight.. btw have you gone to the San jose Heritage Rose garden.. its beautiful now in full bloom
How right you are about our eyes !! And blessed be those eyes with 'an eye for detail' too !
For its not only in the camera, but also in the seeing.
Be it the HDR or God's camera !
:)