HDR Experiment Revisted - 8/30/09

I went to a Photographer's talk given by George Lepp at UH thanks to CD who signed us up. In his talk, he mentioned that you shouldn't think that "I'll fix it in photoshop" but rather to pre-visualize your image and use tools to enhance them. He showed some of his HDR work using Photomatix and it inspired me to work on mine that I've neglected because I've been too lazy. His suggestion is to use a good tripod...which is what i really need to get (he uses a Gitzo..$$$). Well, I wasn't able to bring mine to take these and luckily, the shifts in the pics are too small to notice. In this shot, I used HDR to bring out the red tiles under this bridge.
This was a really dark shot because the sculpture was under the tree and I was able to bring out the details.
Using HDR helped to blend in the dark foreground with the bright background.
There were lots of people passing which caused a lot of blurry figures in this shot. After looking at this for a while, a weird thing about this shot is the woman seated on the ground who seem to be practicing some new age religion. Somehow, it looks like she's staring at this green glow on the ceiling above. Hmmm...
Yep.. people in HDR is bad.. but the sky color and the statue came out great. George lepp also mentioned that we can change the shutter speed to get the water more blurred in HDR water shots. I think I'll try that the next chance I get.
Clouds came out really pronounced in this shot taken in the afternoon around 4pm.
The outside of the Lincoln Memorial looks like the Parthenon in Greece.
HDR helped bring out the interior of the Air and Space Museum and kept the sunroof from being blown out.
Those circular windows in the Library of Congress got really blown out in my first view shots.. so I decided to try doing HDR for this shot.