Downtown HDR Experiment #2 - 6/20/2009

We were planning to take HDR photos of cars at Aloha Tower but ended up taking a wide range of places in downtown. I didn't bring the right tripod so it was a lot of balancing my camera against poles and trees, on railings and on the camera bag in order to take the three bracketed exposure shots. It was a great day for an HDR shoot and the color came out really well as I now have gotten a better handle on the software. For the majority of the shots I was able to stick w/ ISO 200 using aperture priority at F8.
As I boosted some levels in the software, the red rust on the gate really showed up.
The three exposures worked well to bring out the really dark balcony on the second floor.
I took this w/ the camera on my camera bag and I was lucky to pick up the blue sky. Except, I didn't realize it was really crooked and as I straightened it out in PSE, I lost part of the street. 8-D
The boats didn't rock too much so that the three shots could be blended together w/o blurring.
I found out I could boost the yellow and red in this shot in PSE using Adjust Hue/Saturation.
We were experimenting what would happen w/ an HDR image when there are moving subjects like cars...which actually turned out looking like a slow shutter speed shot.
I balanced the camera against a tree to stabilize this shot. I actually became a "tree hugger" for a moment.
After much walking, we ended up at the Hawaii Theater.
A great end to a great shooting day. We decided to check out the Soul de Cuba Cafe across the Hawaii Theater to try some cuban food where I had the strongest espresso I've ever had called cafe cubano that came in a tiny coffee cup. I really liked the colors of the art work against this red wall so I boosted the Yellow, Red and Magenta on this shot to bring out the truer color of the wall.