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  • HDR Images

    Posted: June 8, 2008, 3:56 pm by egm
    High Dynamic Range (HDR) images is my latest thing. It enables me to come up with pictures I would otherwise have been unable to produce. I'd heard of it sometime back, but didn't seriously explore it. And then I was made aware of this person's photos. I loved how they looked so much that I decided to get into it with all the seriousness it deserves.

    While going through the photos in the above Flickr page, I got to learn of the Photomatix software. While you can manually manipulate images using Photoshop to generate the HDR images, I much prefer having Photomatix do it for me. That way, I can focus on doing the actual photography instead of spending all my time infront of a computer editing photos.

    The first few photos I worked on didn't look right. I realised that I needed to touch up the photos in Photoshop some after taking them through Photomatix. This is fine with me, since that is just minimal extra steps. And once I know what look I want for a particular set of pictures, I can automate things and batch process the whole set.

    So far I have taken pictures in Nakuru, Baringo, Naivasha and Isiolo that I have generated HDR images from. Here is a small sampling of these pictures. Enjoy!











































































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