My parents live in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, just South of a small hamlet called Bragg Creek. And, yes, they live in a log home, what else? Some people rent cabins in the mountains, so they can sit around a crackling fire to open presents on Christmas day; but that's just another day in our home (minus the presents, unless it's actually Christmas). So what I'm getting at, is it's a pretty beautiful place to come home to.
I went outside hoping to get a photo that would capture the warmth of this place, but when I got back to Victoria, I just wasn't feeling it. So that's when I turned to my HDR software.
High Dynamic Range (or HDR) imaging is a process used when a scene has a large range of light intensity. My favorite example is as follows:
Say you have a scene in which there is a building with a lot of windows and the lights on, but in the background there is a beautiful sun set, but in the foreground there is a darkened lawn. If you were to set your shutter speed to expose the interior of the building, you would loose the sunset, and the lawn. If you were to expose for the lawn, the sunset, and especially the windows would be blown out (so bright you loose any detail). I think you get where this is going...
So HDR software allows you to take three separate photos of the scene, each one exposed for a different aspect (windows, sky, foreground), and then combine them to get a single image that includes all of the features you wanted.
In the case of the above photo, I actually used a single exposure. Some HDR software will allow you to fake it, as I have.
And on that note, here are some Chickadees. I put some seeds in my hand, and stood really still and got one to land on my hand.
And here's a... one of these.
I included these because they were taken at my parents house... nothing to do with HDR though.
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