{"id":7300,"date":"2009-12-18T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/kumamoto-in-hdr-part-1\/"},"modified":"2010-03-12T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:24:07","slug":"kumamoto-in-hdr-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/kumamoto-in-hdr-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumamoto in HDR &ndash; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Wrote this post last Sunday, but posting it now.:)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One thing I haven\u2019t 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\u2019t turned out well given the cloudy and overcast Sunday morning I was there, so the HDR pictures themselves also look a little, well, dull.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, here\u2019s a selection from the 24 HDR pictures I took, each constructed from between 5 to 7 pictures each, separated by +\/- 1 EV.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4835-kumamoto-castle-hdr18\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4835kumamotocastlehdr181.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4835-kumamoto-castle-hdr18\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4692-kumamoto-castle-hdr-08\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4692kumamotocastlehdr08.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4692-kumamoto-castle-hdr-08\" width=\"600\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4736-kumamoto-castle-hdr-13-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4736kumamotocastlehdr13flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4736-kumamoto-castle-hdr-13-flickr\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4682-kumamoto-castle-hdr-07-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4682kumamotocastlehdr07flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4682-kumamoto-castle-hdr-07-flickr\" width=\"299\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4844-kumamoto-castle-hdr19\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4844kumamotocastlehdr19.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4844-kumamoto-castle-hdr19\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4774-kumamoto-castle-hdr15\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4774kumamotocastlehdr15.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4774-kumamoto-castle-hdr15\" width=\"600\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4880-kumamoto-castle-hdr23\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4880kumamotocastlehdr23.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4880-kumamoto-castle-hdr23\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4849-kumamoto-castle-hdr20-flickr\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/blog2009kumamotoDSC_4849kumamotocastlehdr20flickr.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-2009-kumamoto-DSC_4849-kumamoto-castle-hdr20-flickr\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Each of the 5 \u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>The other spot I was planning to visit \u2013 time permitting and if I can find free time outside my teaching hours \u2013 is Suizenji Gardens, regarded as one of Japan\u2019s top four gardens. Hopefully the sky would be clearer the day I can go by. Either way, there\u2019ll be more HDR compositions to come.:)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrote this post last Sunday, but posting it now.:) One thing I haven\u2019t 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<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/12\/18\/kumamoto-in-hdr-part-1\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Kumamoto in HDR &ndash; Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[207,237,137],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-cameras","category-traveling","tag-hdr","tag-kumamoto-2009","tag-d300","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}