Last Tuesday I went to philly to photograph the Philadelphia Free library, this was particularly interesting to me because it was the first time I got to photograph an old building with a lot of details and got to put the 17mm tilt shift lens and the 5D to the test (really testing me as I have not used it a lot). Some of the larger photographs were taken with 3 different exposures then merged in to a high dynamic range image (HDRI) then photo merged to get super wide shot, so basically those photos are made of 6 different photos, did it work? I don’t know you be the judge. only the reading rooms and the grand stairs were done like that, the rest of the photos are a single exposure with a 24-105 zoom lens and my 7D. It was also a very interesting day as it was the day when I was boarding my flight back to Boston there was an 5.8 magnitude earthquake. Enjoy and Comment!!
Carlos Cristerna
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The BW treatment works wonderfully. The HDRI looks great, though the available resolution’s not so outstanding to see them in detail. However, there’s a big difference between the detail photos and the ones of the reading rooms – I though HDRI was mostly used for color photos…?
You have some great pictures here!
Best regards,
Joana
Thanks a lot for your comments, I would start uploading bigger images form now on ;). about the HDRI’s to be honest with you I only did it as an experiment shooting 3 different exposures and blending them in photoshop with the HDR application. Did I do it right? I dont know and it does not matter, I personally think what matters is if we like the result and the learning you get form it. Next time I will try shooting more exposures to see what difference it makes. lastly I just made them BW for fun I though the original colors of the place were not very nice so I just got rid of it :).
take a look at the other posts in there and comment
thanks, Carlos Cristerna
I’m afaid I’m not at all an expert to judge the method – just giving an unlearned opinion on the result…! I’ve seen HDRI pictures, but I’ve never tried to do it myself – thence the question. Your pictures do look very well balanced in terms of light; maybe the BW strategy really helps to their clean ‘look’ as well 🙂
Anyway, I do appreciate your posts and will definitely return to your blog and comment 🙂
Joana
Joana, I saw your Blog, it is awesome!. and your photos (I imagine the ones with your name are yours) are great!! I am happy that you think mine are good after seeing yours!! anyhow. it is bookmarked!!
thanks , Carlos Cristerna
Yes – the ones with my name on them are mine (actually, all the pictures without a reference /link in the post are). Thank you a lot – I admire the work done by Neoscape and I eventually arrived here via them; coming from you, it means a lot 🙂
Keep up your blog when you have the time, it looks really great!
Joana