The ‘New’ Sunday Driver Rock
Someone messaged me on Flickr to tell me that Sunday Driver Rock had returned. I drove out to the rock, and initially thought that it had never been painted over. Still, I took a picture of it, and upon comparison with the picture from 2003, it is definitely slightly different. Also, if you look on the bottom edge of the paint in the new picture, you can see that there must have been brown paint below it. Much like “Chicken Farmer” rock, it seems that ‘Sunday Driver’ isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, regardless of what vandals do to it.
Another try at HDR
I was walking out of the library a few days ago, and saw that the sun was just about to go down, and that it might be a good oppurtunity to try my hand at HDR again. Not the most exciting composition, but I think I managed to capture a wider range of values.
High Dynamic Range
I had a few free minutes the other night, so I decided to try my hand at making a ‘high dynamic range’ or HDR image. Basically, an HDR image is a photo that is composed of multiple shots take from the exact same perspective, but at varying exposure levels. Digital cameras usually exhibit relatively low dynamic range (especially when compared to film) by combining these bracketed exposures, you have access to a greater range of tones and detail, especially in the shadows and highlights. Here is a link to the tutorial I used. Here is the picture I took, which didn’t come out particularly well. I still don’t really have the hang of HDR, especially the post processing aspect of it, but that will (hopefully) be remedied over time.
I also took a few other pictures while in Manchester that night.
“Post From My Phone”
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