Sunday afternoon, 30 December. Hot as a bastard, and windy.
I have been wanting to try out some HDR action, so out to the backyard,
choose a scene which offered real extremes of exposure, very bright
sunlight, deep dark shadows under the tree.
Took quite a few groups of shots, the best (for the exercise) being seven
shots bracketed at ev 0.7, therefore ranging from +2 to -2 stops from the
metered exposure. Aperture priority (to avoid dof differences), ISO 100
and shutter speeds ranging from 1/250 to 1/10 at f8
I shot Raw on the D200, converted them to 16 bit tiffs and let Photomatix
do the processing.
The result is impressive, everything is nicely exposed. The blurry leaves
are due to the aforementioned wind. I am looking forward to doing some
HDR work.