Indy Telecom & Industrial Media

No, I am not talking about Skyline Chili, although I do love their food. Here is a picture of Cincinnati taken from Newport on the Levee, right across the Ohio River.

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.

Here is a stop motion video of a church right outside my apartment in downtown Cincinnati: