Week Four


(incorrectly exposed) Bird Feeder

Millie (w/ motion blur)

    I chose to post two outtakes from this week's HDR exercise that I found myself particularly frustrated with. Neither of these shots turned out like I wanted them to - even after a long time in post trying to save what was almost certainly user error during the shoot. The first image is of a bird feeder in my backyard. I was unable to save the crushing highlights that completely blew out the sky. This threw the whole image out of whack. I realize that sometimes it's okay to let the brightest points of the image stay blown out, but because of the way this shot was composted I simply couldn't leave it that way. The result is an oddly surrealist image that doesn't look anything like what I intended when I was framing up the shot. 

    The second picture is a bracketed exposure shot of my dog, Millie. She was laying in the yard watching me snap pictures, so I decided to snap one of her. However, the bracketing exposure caught her panting and resulted in motion blur that I was unable to fix in post. Even though I took several shots in an attempt to get her as still as possible, it was still too much to result in a usable image. 

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