Day 142
In honor of the arrival of winter weather, I decided to reprocess this picture which I made last year. This time I redid it as a single shot HDR, and I think I like the results more than the original.
The photo was taken with a Nikon D700, with a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR lens. The camera was mounted on a tripod to allow me to use a fairly slow shutter speed, which gives the flowing water a smooth texture. The camera is positioned on a small ledge overlooking a 50 foot drop, but because of all the trees this was the only place to get the shot. The RAW file was processed in Adobe Lightroom and then Photomatix, which does the HDR conversion and tone mapping.
I realize that the photos that I am processing as single shot HDR’s are not true HDR images. Sometimes the single shot image is necessary, especially when the scene contains moving objects. I need to start shooting some new images withs bracketed series, which will allow me to create true HDR shots. I’ll be interested to see how much of a difference there will actually be between the two methods.
