Reconfigure

HDR pictures

Thought it might be better to try and photograph something like lot of my kind do these days - outdoor. Wake up and try hit a lake nearby to find lotza plastic bottles in it. No useful pictures.

What was really useful was QtPFSgui and PFS library. It can operate on a few HDR image formats. Checkout my first HDR picture (cliques the pique). Actually a tonemapped form of the picture (well, almost everybody calls it HDR). To be entirely true its the second attempt at multiple exposure, and second time I ran it through the software.

The first one had 3 pictures (just like this one) used continuous mode to take it (in my mind trying to wish away any shake blur) but just like most wishes it did not function well and the 3rd frame was way too off the first and second to avoid ghosts (as they call it). The second time (a.k.a the one which worked) it might look more like weapons training.. Attach a table top tripod, plant it on the wall (essentially leaning on it), aim, press and hold shutter release till you hear 3 pics taken.

Once you have 3 pics its simple, load them in the tool (QtPFSqui), align frames if needed, check the exposure levels indicated (if needed, normally exif tag does it for you), make the hdr image, apply tonemapping to make ldr image. The tonemapping function (or operator) in the picture shown is called Fattal operator.

Learning: Should buy tripod and remote control thingy.