Jared B Anderson

Yes I know this is a re-posting of the first blog post, but I wanted to show the before with it.  Also is a reminder to not discard images when the dynamics of the image aren’t that special.  When I took pictures of this balloon, I was on the way back from a photo-walk that was not very fruitful.  I saw the balloon and rushed to get to a place where the composition of the photo would be good.  The place I found was looking right into the morning sun.  I knew the sky was going to be blown out and knew I didn’t have much chance to get the good exposure bracket for an HDR with how fast the balloon was moving.  So I set my exposure the best I could and shot fast and furious.  This frame was the best out of the couple dozen that I took.  When I got to post-processing time I was disappointed with the results, I couldn’t see any mountains in the background and the contrast was blah.  I had been experimenting with single image HDR’s that the original looked better than this, but I thought I’d give it a try to see if it worked.  Turns out after fidgeting with the photomatix sliders enough, I found the misty mountains in the background, and rather th0ught that the flare of the sun added a certain mystique to the images.  Turns out that I still got the image that I saw with my eyes using single image HDR processing on a blah image.