3:00PM came, and I’m a little antsy from staying inside and cleaning. I decide that I should go out while the sun is up and test the new fisheye lens again. I brought a few of my other lenses as well, but didn’t end up using them.
I get out of my apartment and have no clue where to go. The cemetery was interesting with my old camera near sun-down, and I head there.
An HDR is always a requirement.
Ooh where does that road lead to that goes down the hill? Over the bridge and to Concord street. I took a few pictures, but subject wise aren’t all that interesting. I’m a far ways away now, since I’ve been going down hill all this time. Time to make my way back.
I follow Concord back to a State street and take a few more pictures.
There is this big mural on State and Cesar that I haven’t taken a picture of yet, so I snap a few.
And the brick house on the corner, all stately and strong watching over me progress up the hill.
I hope you found my walk today most interesting and from a new perspective. A lot more long excursions are in my future as I train for some planned hiking and biking trips occurring this summer.
We really liked the photos from your walk today. It is a really interesting perspective. Sounds like you like the fish eye lens. Enjoy your future walks. Have you tried processing any through photo shop?
For the HDR, I converted 9 bracket raw images to 16bit TIF file, and used them as input into Photomatix. Apart from using Adobe RGB instead of SRGB that will give Photomatix the most information to work with.
All the others were processed in Capture NX 2 to correct for exposure, white balance, noise reduction, and sharpening. To post to the web, I resized the image in Gimp, then applied an unsharp mask filter (Contrary to the name it is actually a sharpening filter). The sharpening is needed because the resize will make it softer looking.
I’m open to suggestions on improving any of the above. I’m always unsure if the images are properly exposed when viewed on other monitors.
Adam,
I really like the mural on State and Cedar. Your photo is exceptional. I like how the telephone wires frame it and the lack of symetry makes the mural even more of a focal point.
Peace,
Maria