Jared B Anderson

Air Balloon Before/After

Jared — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:23:11 +0000

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.

Mount Timpanogos Temple with a little HDR Secret Sauce

Jared — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:57:21 +0000

Here we go again with the HDR’s… which means that I have viewing the world in HDR for the length of time that I have images on my hard drive. I do like to take other imagery… but it’s on my other computer. I’ll get to that sometime but for now, enjoy.

Quick notes on this image. I was on my home from work commiserating to my wife about the lack of personal, do what I want photo opportunities when I stepped out of the car at home seeing this sunset with photo fever in my blood. I told my wife I was leaving… I knew I had minimal time to get to somewhere where there was scenery that would be complimented by the vibrant colors of the sky. After I got to the parking lot of a private school across from the LDS Mount Timpanogos Temple, my only danger was the ice that nearly landed me on my… well that’s about it…

AF Canyon HDR

Jared — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:45:48 +0000

Well I think that I finally got it to work the way that I wanted it to. After my first post about being full of hot air… well lets just say that since I couldn’t get images to display correctly, so I temporarily stopped until I figured that out. And it works now!

Anyways, I’ve got another HDR image for today. it was rather a bland morning up American Fork Canyon when I took this picture, and it’s yet another example of how HDR can take a blah image and make it… well, alright.

Full of hot air… or not?

Jared — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:32:34 +0000

So this is the 7th time(I think) that I have started a blog due to various reasons that I ought not bore you with. I really love photography and I love to share/ partake of photography by the means that has been dubbed ‘blogging’ and that is why I’m here. Well that and I think that this HDR image is really awesome… and I hope that I’m not full of hot air like this balloon and can continue to blog.