Architectural HDR Downtown

Posted by Phillip on Feb 27th, 2009 | no comments

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Architectural HDR

Yesterday I went out and about downtown to play with High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography. I decided to capture some of the well-known historic houses. I’ve seen these houses many times driving to and from downtown, but never really had any real desire to shoot them. When I wanted to go do some HDR, I thought that these houses would be a good way to get these shots without replicating photos I had already seen from brochures at the Visitor Center.

I think they turned out well and I’d like to see what else makes for a good HDR subject. I’ve gathered that clouds (whether wipsy, puffy, or nearly overcast) really help, and photos that are composed with a lot of distance between the foreground and background subjects.

I used a tripod-mounted Nikon D200 with a Sigma 18-50mm 2.7d lens to shoot 5 bracketed exposures. My exposure settings were at around f8, ISO 100.

In all likelihood, I’ll be adding and contributing more to HDR, so keep your eyes peeled. In the meantime, the HDRs I took yesterday can be found at my gallery here and on my Flickr page.

About Me

I enjoy capturing the feeling and actuality of a scene through photography. The small things that may get overlooked by the casual passer-by, and will most definitely get passed up by the professional travel photographer. To me, it's these details that help me capture the true essence of a place. To help get a unique and accurate depiction of a scene, I'm also enthusiastic about trying new techniques in photography and combining the old with the new to create some thing interesting.