Kumamoto in HDR – Part 1

Wrote this post last Sunday, but posting it now.:)

One thing I haven’t done much of when traveling is to take high dynamic range photographs. So, I was determined this time to take as much as I could. The Kumamoto Castle pictures haven’t turned out well given the cloudy and overcast Sunday morning I was there, so the HDR pictures themselves also look a little, well, dull.

Either way, here’s a selection from the 24 HDR pictures I took, each constructed from between 5 to 7 pictures each, separated by +/- 1 EV.

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Each of the 5 – 7 frames to construct a HDR composition were taken hand-held, and a number of the HDR pictures had ghosting effects from people movement, and hand-held induced vibrations too.

The other spot I was planning to visit – time permitting and if I can find free time outside my teaching hours – is Suizenji Gardens, regarded as one of Japan’s top four gardens. Hopefully the sky would be clearer the day I can go by. Either way, there’ll be more HDR compositions to come.:)