Tag Archives: HDR

Shooting in the Dark – Chinese Lantern Festival

We have a vibrant asian culture in CHCH, which makes for a tasty range of ethnic places to eat and great places to buy produce and supplies. To celebrate Chinese New Year they have a Lantern Festival, have dancing and … Continue reading

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My first ever Sunrise Shoot at Moeraki Boulders

Queens Birthday is a 3 day weekend here in NZ, and its the first weekend in June. 3 days beforehand I crashed my car, but my BFF (DJ) managed to wangle permission to use her work car, and so our … Continue reading

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Totara Stump Graveyard Fieldtrip with NPS

Sunday was a Fieldtrip day with Nature Photographic Society of NZ (or NPS for short). My plan this year is to get out and do more fieldtrips and the local ones around Christchurch I really have no excuse not to … Continue reading

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Always know where your nearest toilet is!

I had my gall bladder out a few years ago, which was a great relief to all concerned. But one of the side effects it left me with was a need to always know where my nearest toilet was. Sometimes … Continue reading

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Night shooting

Yes I am still alive and apologise for my lack of posts. I am about to go on holiday for two weeks starting next week, and even better, during that time I am flitting over to Melbourne for Worldcon! – … Continue reading

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HDR Experiment #2 – Floral Art

A colleague at work knows one of the ladies who did this floral arrangement at Ellerslie Flower Show (on recently) and asked me to take a photo of it. For those who didn’t make it to the truly *huge* marquee … Continue reading

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HDR first experiment – Sunset

As previously posted, I enjoyed the Photowalk and subsequent talk by Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs fame, and it gave me a new appreciation of what HDR can do or could be used for. I enjoy taking photos of … Continue reading

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A new respect for HDR

I had heard of HDR, read about it in books, and eventually understood when some of the images I was looking at had been made via HDR technique. But I was really quite unaware of the details around how HDR … Continue reading

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