{"id":579,"date":"2009-03-30T23:20:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-03-30T23:35:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T03:35:38","slug":"minimalist-hdr-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2009\/minimalist-hdr-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Minimalist HDR Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking across campus today and looked up to see these &#8220;furry&#8221; branches. All I had was my snapshot camera (Canon SD800), so I tried the &#8220;minimalist&#8221; technique from\u00a0McCollough\u2019s\u00a0book, two exposures at +1.33 and -1.33, handheld, no aperture priority. I took several pairs, many did not work, but this one did!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-de.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-580\" title=\"campus-oak-tree-de\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-de-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-de-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-de.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0For comparison, here is the straight up 0EV image.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-ps.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-581\" title=\"campus-oak-tree-ps\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-ps-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-ps-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/campus-oak-tree-ps.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The HDR version definitely preserves the sky and opens up the shadows. By the way, the &#8220;fur&#8221; is the\u00a0ubiquitous\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfrc.ufl.edu\/4h\/Resurrection_fern\/resufern.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Resurrection Fern<\/a> found on most old growth oaks in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking across campus today and looked up to see these &#8220;furry&#8221; branches. All I had was my snapshot camera (Canon SD800), so I tried the &#8220;minimalist&#8221; technique from\u00a0McCollough\u2019s\u00a0book, two exposures at +1.33 and -1.33, handheld, no aperture priority. I took several pairs, many did not work, but this one did! \u00a0For comparison, here &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2009\/minimalist-hdr-experiment\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Minimalist HDR Experiment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}