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The Neighbourhood
The Neighbourhood
raish


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Challenge: HDR (Advanced Editing V*)
Camera: Nikon D100
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR II
Location: Oslo
Date: Nov 12, 2006
Aperture: f/22
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/5 - 1/30
Galleries: Cityscape, Snapshot
Date Uploaded: Nov 12, 2006

 24 hours is longer than 24 minutes, but even so...

What with it being cold out and me having some sort of cold/flu, here’s the modus operandi for the pic shown:

Look out of window
fetch camera and tripod
check out camera placement angle etc
make manual setting (f/22, 1/13sec)
open window and quickly (so as not to let in too much cold), fire off 5 exposures from 1/5 to 1/30 sec.
Close window.

Transfer pictures to PC
start up Photoshop 7.0
open the 5 pictures
select the darkest
convert to 8 bits
Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C
Open new file
Ctrl-V

I tried a few combinations of exposures 1, 3 and 5, with overlay and/or with one or other layer desaturated and inverted + blurred.

In the end I took the lightest and darkest exposure, cut and pasted into a new document/image/file, made a layer mask for the one on top and drew a line from top to bottom of the picture with gradient fill. This is only of any use when there is a more or less linear progression from dark to light, as was the case here.


Ctrl-Shift-E, then adjustment layers –
There was a wee bit of distortion from the 24mm focal length and the perspective, so I took the opportunity (afforded by working with pasted layers) of straightening that out.
levels (not much to do, just a snip at either end)
resized
hue/saturation (way over the top, as per dpc fashion:))
selected colour (reduced blacks)

USM, at figures of (about) 150, 0.8 and 0.4


Hardly worthy of the term hrd or hdr or whatever, but interesting enough to see how much that shows in the context of the mini-challenge.

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Apple iPhone 6s+
Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
 11/20/2006 04:18:23 PM
This helps me to understand HDR a little more. Nothing in the view is lost do to shadows and exposures. Good going for a speed challenge when you're feeling lousy!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
Canon EOS-20D
Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon
 11/15/2006 04:59:55 PM
I can tell it's HDR, but I don't know what the subject is. Technically good though.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Nikon Z8
Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S
 11/14/2006 09:11:04 PM
Use of Light:1
Focus:1
Composition:1
Creativity:1
Achieves Challenge:2

Nice use of HDR to bring out the moon in the sky and show the details of the shaded building
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Canon EOS-5D Mark III
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0 L USM
 11/14/2006 09:18:12 AM
I like this idea, maybe more of building would help since the reflections in windows are really good.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Panasonic DMC-FZ8
 11/14/2006 12:06:21 AM
Interesting commposition, and I really like the reflections in the windows.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-5D
Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
 11/13/2006 11:57:21 PM
Looks a bit washed out to me.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Canon EOS-40D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM
 11/13/2006 10:41:18 AM
Nice idea. However I think less sky and more building would improve it.
  Photographer found comment helpful.
Sony DSC-W5
 11/13/2006 12:35:38 AM
Liked it
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