HDR Experiment: Number of Frames

During the HDR tutorial, I set the bracketing at 3 frames by 2-stops.  I personally use this setting because my camera will do this automatically.  Other cameras (D300s specifically) will allow 7 frames by 1-stop, and others up to 9 frames by 1-stop.  


There are two different aspects to be tested here.

• What range (+-EV) is necessary to capture?
• Is a range of 1-stop better than a range of 2-stops?

This post will focus on the first aspect, what range is necessary to capture.  Throughout this experiment, the frames will be all 2-stops apart.

HDR Tutorial: Shooting

24mm | 1/250s | f/5.6 | ISO100 | 3-image HDR

High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography has become very popular over the past few years.  I am fortunate to have started learning about it from near the beginning, and have become proficient in shooting and processing HDR images.  I am very overdue for writing this tutorial.  This first part will focus on shooting the bracketed images.  The next post will focus on post-processing.

How to Shoot Panos

38mm | 2.5s | f/8 | ISO400 | 4-image Pano

I've been dying to do a tutorial on Panos for a while.  I had the opportunity to take some in Tampa a few weeks ago and I thought this would be a good reason to write up a tutorial.  I originally got most of this information from a forum post by Leung on dpreview (I can't find the post, but I saved the info to a PDF).  It helped me a lot when I was just starting out, and I'll be adding some lesson's I've learned along the way.

How to Shoot Lightning

50mm | 8s | f/9 | ISO 400

The inclement weather today got me thinking yet again about shooting lightning.  Alas, I didn't get a chance, but I was reminded of my desire to put together a tutorial on how to shoot lightning.  I figured while its fresh in my mind from thinking about it all day I would start writing it down.

Shooting into the Sun

82mm | 1/160s | f/25 | ISO 200

According to Miguel, this is one of my "go-to" kind of shots, shooting into the sun.  Well he may be right, because my walk this evening with the intention of shooting macro quickly turned into Sunbursts.

Awards 2010

This will hopefully become a yearly post, where I summarize my photos which have either won contests or been published/recognized somewhere.

Arts in April

This is a yearly art show that takes place at the site I work at.  It is only open to entries from employees or relatives of employees, and is judged by the employees during the day of the show.  This is my third year entering, and my most rewarding one so far.

2011 Photography Resolutions

Earlier this week Miguel sent out a link by photographer Lisa Bettany of a list of Photography Resolutions.  Although I didn't really like many of her resolutions, I liked the idea.  Here is my list of photography resolutions for 2011: