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Got back after night out in Doncaster and decided to take some pictures.

Lots of rubbish (possibly due to the amount of beer consumed while out) but this one appears to have come out alright.

Cats make great subjects

Erik Johansson produces some stunning work. Well worth a look.

After my last blog post I decided tonight to have a quick bash at creating a HDR photo of where we are currently moored (better 1/2 lives on a boat)

Didn’t finish work till 22:30 so got back to boaty and, after some food, went outside to take some photos.

As this was purely an experiment I didn’t spend too much time getting the composition ‘just right’ or playing around too much with the exposure. Just fired off 6 shots, increasing the shutter speed every time (I really should have been knocking down the f-stop but what they hell).

Anyhoo, back on boaty I fired up qtpfsgui and loaded the images in. Once done, accepting the defaults, I entered the tone map dialogue to create the LDR output. Now there are 6 or 7 different algorithms to choose from and I ended up picking the mantiuk one.

Here is the result:

Looks ok, although not amazing.

So off to google to find some tutorials. There are quite a few around but this one caught my eye: HDR tutorial: how to create HDR photos with free Qtpfsgui and GIMP

This tutorial recommends using 2 different algorithms and combining the output using

Colours are a bit more vivid in that shot. Still some experimentation to be done but qtpfsgui definitely shows some potential. I just wish the software had a better name

Some awesome HDR photography on Trey Ratcliff’s Blog Stuck In Customs

HDR is something I keep looking at trying but never quite get round to is (like many things).