{"id":2604,"date":"2012-02-11T06:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p4td.lightshedder.com\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2012-02-11T06:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T11:57:32","slug":"2112012-the-pond-in-hdr-merritt-island-nwr-visitor-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"2\/11\/2012: The Pond in HDR, Merritt Island NWR Visitor Center"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taking a Saturday break from birds, birds, birds. This is the pond behind the Visitor Center at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge. In HDR. It is, maybe, a bit painterly. It is also a single jpeg tone-mapped in Dynamic Photo HDR for maximum drama\u2026well\u2026actually I took it into Lightroom after DPHDR and toned the drama down a bit. Still.<\/p>\n

The pure Lightroom version on the left looks a little flat by comparison\u2026but without the comparison it is still an interesting photo. <\/p>\n

I always have mixed feelings about HDR. I certainly has immediate impact, but, honestly, the world is just not like that\u2026or not often at least. I heard an interview with Trey Ratcliff, currently one of the super-star  proponents of HDR and high drama photography (over 1 million followers on Google+), in which he said, in effect: more and more this becomes<\/em> the world we see. Interesting. And, I suppose, true. I know that when I used to do a lot of HDR, I did consciously imagine every scene as it would look after treatment as an HDR. <\/p>\n

Canon SX40HS at 24mm equivalent field of view. f6.3 ! 1\/1250th @ ISO 200. Metered off the clouds. Program with iContrast and \u20131\/3EV exposure compensation.<\/p>\n

Processed as above in Dynamic Photo HDR and Lightroom. <\/p>\n

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