Mound of Moss January 6, 2010 at 21:41
So, my wife has made it home, I have my camera and am free to putz with it as I wish but alas, it is not the weekend so picture-taking isn’t going to happen. I’m hoping to get out on Saturday and get some sunrise or sunset photos but we’ll see.
One thing I did manage to do was to finish going through the thousands of photos stored on my computer and tag the ones that needed tagging and fixing the dates in Windows Live Photo Gallery. While going through this process I managed to actually look at all the HDR photos that I had taken, even all of the ones that I did wrong, and the photos that I’ve taken at Quarry Park.
I must say, I really do like going there and it’s amazing that I’ve managed to live here this long before I got over there for the first time. It kind of makes me wonder what I’ve been doing all this time that I completely overlooked such a wonderful place. I especially cannot wait until my friend, Jacob, comes up here with his new Nikon D90 (of which I am extremely jealous, let me tell you) so that I can see the improved quality of his photos. He doesn’t handle the cold too well so I’ve only got about five months before we can start taking photos there together.
I found the photo below while going through my Quarry Park shots. The photo itself isn’t really all that spectacular, it’s just a mound of moss. I must say, I keep going back and forth on this whole HDR thing and I keep wondering just how far I want to take this format. I usually make it a point of shooting HDR photos whenever I’m shooting in general but I don’t always keep the shots. What amazes me about this technique is just how much detail it brings out. I’ve taken the normal shot below and I can’t get the detail to pop, such as the individual grass, as much as you see below, even in Photoshop. I think I’m amazed at just the amount of detail that a camera can capture and how robbed a lot of us are at the amount of detail that gets lost in normal photos.
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