Every Spring, there is a place on Highway 6 in Grimes Co. where there are always lots of cars parked because there are fields full of blue bonnets. This year,on the way home from Galveston, we pulled off the side of the road and got some good pictures.
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The TMCA Spring Workshop was in Abilene. So, we took Hwy 36 up through Hamilton. Along the way, we stopped a couple places and got some nice images.
I am getting a little more comfortable with doing these HDR images, but I would really like a better understanding of the various adjustments in Photomatix. These had very mild HDR effects applied to them.
High Dynamic Range photography is a process that combines elements from several images and produces a single picture that has increased detail in both the shadows and highlights. I was impressed by a picture that someone else took, and asked him about it. He told me how he did it, and I have been investigating the process.
In some cases, the resulting picture is not too different from a regular one, it just has more detail. The picture above was generated from a picture I took of Galveston Bay a couple weeks ago. It looks pretty much like a normal picture, only a little more detail and more vibrant.
By modifying some of the parameters of the photograph, the resulting image has a somewhat more abstract or artistic characteristic. This picture has some characteristics that make it look more like a painting.