Indy Telecom & Industrial Media

Here are a couple of HDRs from my the living room of my new apartment (the surrounding structure is the rest of the complex; the tree is on my floor along with the pool and some fountains).

The latest version of Paint.NET has been released — it’s not quite Photoshop, but it’s free and it’s got a better UI (and is more usable) than GIMP. It’s got a tonne of features, and has a wide variety of plugins to support it.

So, I decided to give it a go and tried making a few changes to my existing HDR images, mostly by equalizing the tones and saturation.

Here are the results - click to view the larger images.

Personally, I think these have come out much better than the originals!

Here is another attempt at HDR — this is a statue of President James Garfield, the first president from Ohio.

So, I finally got a new tripod, from Amvona, one of their ultralight models. My first order of business, of course, was to try out some candidates for HDR photography.

I present to you a couple of the results - click to view the larger images:

I’m still new at this stuff, so please forgive me if these don’t really look like the HDR images that you may see on some professional photographer’s website.

Happy 2007, all. Hope the year is rocking for all of you folks out there.

And for those of you from the south of India, hope you are either eating pongal or flying kites, or both.

High Dynamic Range (or HDR) photography. The basic idea behind HDR is to take a series of exposures of a particular target, and combine them using various techniques to render a final piece that showcases the differences between the light and dark areas to a much greater extent.