Sahsima in Green
Today’s post is about another experiment in how to express moving water with HDR techniques. Like my last post on this topic, this one uses some jpegs from my archive, all shot within minutes of each other during a storm on 11/11/11. For my original post about photographing that storm, go to Sahsima Storm. At that time I took a lot of shots of Sahsima from the shelter of a large boulder, trying to anticipate and catch a good spray effect as wave after wave washed in. Since I was trying to figure out what shutter speed would work for different effects, I ended up taking a lot of photos at a variety of shutter speeds. For some reason I never culled out the ones that did not work – I had ideas I would process some more of them for posting, but never did.
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Rasta Curb
I don’t know about anyone else, but my nostrils twitch at the imagined smell of weed when I look at this bit of curb.
Sahsima in White
Taking what I learned about using HDR to get the creamy water effect I have applied the method to some old jpeg brackets from last year. These shots were taken on the last day of 2011, not long after dawn, of Sahsima the transformer stone on Harling Point. I took quite a few exposures, trying for nice water. And I did not do too badly but did not get the effect I was after. I only posted one image from many taken that morning, but none from these brackets, I don’t think.
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Drain in White II
This is the last of my HDR experiments at the Ross Bay storm drain that were taken last weekend. The main point of these experiments was my curiosity as to whether one could simulate the very long exposure effect with many shorter exposures blended together in HDR. The longest exposure that my camera will take with its own timer is 30 seconds and I have been thinking the creamy soft water that I would like to get in my photos requires even longer exposures, or maybe a HDR work-around.
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Drain in White
This is a variation on my HDR experiments at the Ross Bay storm drain – both of these pictures are tone-mapped from a single long exposure, not from multiple exposures like the others I have shown, and will also show tomorrow. Today’s pictures are both made from the same image.
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Drain Boys
I had my tripod set up and was taking pictures of the Ross Bay storm drain when these boys, oblivious of my activity, arrived and got out of their shoes and socks and ventured onto the drain. My feet hurt just looking at this as I know how cold that water is. I was watching and wondering, if they get caught by a bigger wave and pushed over the side into the deep water, do I have to go in after them. Thank goodness I did not have to follow that thought through to an answer. I hate cold water.
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Teazle Post
This teazle grows beside the arbor that holds a gate between our back yard, and the neighbours’. The other day it was casting a strong shadow onto the gate post.
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