{"id":22,"date":"2008-04-28T21:08:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-04-28T21:08:30","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T13:08:30","slug":"hdr-and-cpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2008\/04\/28\/hdr-and-cpl\/","title":{"rendered":"HDR and CPL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"blog-2008-Rivervale-DSC_0870-HDR.jpg\"One of those things I\u2019ve never really gotten around to doing is play around with Photo editing software. I\u2019ve had them for years – e.g. the very first digital camera I bought in 1999 (a Canon S10) – came with a very early edition of Adobe <\/a>Photoshop<\/a> Elements. All the digital photos I\u2019ve taken since that point I\u2019ve rarely put through software processing outside cropping, resizing and adding shadow drop borders.<\/p>\n

One of the most fun things about having picked up the D300<\/a> is that I\u2019m now relearning all the stuff I\u2019ve been missing out, and boy am I totally a noob in this sort of thing. I\u2019m right now still wrestling with understanding how Photoshop<\/a> curves work. Fortunately, there\u2019re a ton of online tutorials explaining how to achieve all sorts of effects in Photoshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One of the really nifty things I tried out over the weekend was creating HDR<\/a>, or high dynamic range, pictures. The picture here is a really early attempt using a hodge-podge of different software; one to convert RAW to JPG, another to properly align pictures, a third to create the HDR picture itself, and a fourth to do some more adjustments.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, the final product here looks awful when I compare it to those taken by pros and experienced enthusiasts. E.g. look at the upper right corner of the picture. Looks awful. But hey it\u2019s just an early attempt after 30 minutes of reading tutorials.<\/p>\n

Another effect I\u2019ve been trying out is creating polarizer effects in Photoshop<\/a>. It\u2019s pretty interesting stuff that range from simple use of gradient tools to darken the horizon, to inserting new layers with complex adjustments made to cyan colors.<\/p>\n

The results haven\u2019t been satisfactory though. It seems generally agreed that it\u2019s tough to replicate in software the polarizing effect you can get from a high quality filter. Fortunately, I\u2019ve just ordered one such filter that should be arriving by way of Matt – who when coming to visit us next month is going to be like a Santa Claus of sorts. If all goes well, he\u2019ll be bringing me a Nikon<\/a> SB-600 speedlight, this circular polarizer filter, a midrange 55-200mm zoom lens, and finally a 10-20mm wide-angle. The latter I\u2019m especially looking forward to as I\u2019ve not dabbled much in wide-angle photography, but with our upcoming trip to the Ayara Hilltop resorts in June it\u2019ll be an excellent opportunity to.:)<\/p>\n

Oh yeah; here\u2019re a few more<\/a> of my early attempts in HDR.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of those things I\u2019ve never really gotten around to doing is play around with Photo editing software. I\u2019ve had them for years – e.g. the very first digital camera I bought in 1999 (a Canon S10) – came with<\/p>\n

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