Preserved in Amber HDR collage | Feb. 14, 2013 | 12:02pm | Bannack Ghost Town | f/5.6 | 1/3200, 1/800, 1/200 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
I shot this image using my camera’s bracketing settings, which captured the image at three different exposures. I used Photomatix to compress them all together. The result:
Preserved in Amber
I decided to go for a more realistic approach when choosing the settings for my HDR, rather than the surrealistic style that seems to be pretty popular. I just wish I’d thought to use a gold reflector to get just a little rim lighting on the right edge of the bottle.
Hotel | Feb. 14, 2013 | 11:38am | Bannack Ghost Town | f/5.6 | 1/400 | Canon EOS Rebel T3
I took this picture near the very beginning of the visit, when I was still trying to figure out which camera settings to use. I originally saw this as a throw-away image because it was so bright, but I thought I’d try to salvage it using a one-shot HDR process. I used Camera Raw to create two other versions of this image (one far too dark, and one evenly exposed but flat) and then put them all into Photomatix at let it work its magic:
Hotel Meade One-Shot HDR
The colors are much better! The image is still a little lifeless (get it? Because it’s a Ghost T…nevermind) but it’s a vast improvement over the original! I added a dark vignette to help frame the scene.