HDR (High dynamic range) pictures are not only one picture but three or more pictures combined into one. Each of them has different lighting. Usually it is one picture in normal lighting, one under, and one over exposed. All these together give the picture a greater scale of colors to look at that comes closer to the color capacity of our human eyes. The over exposed image brings out details in the dark areas and the under exposed picture brings out the highlights better. So together we have a very detailed picture with more colors. This week I also tried taking some HDR pictures. Turned out that I didn't really know my camera well enough to find the EV bracket. After a while of research and trying, I found the right settings. Once you figured it out it was pretty easy to take and put together. I learned that our normal cameras don't capture many colors. It normally only captures the highlights, shadows, and midtones. HDR gives a better opportunity to have more pictures and details. I also learned that using a tripot is really important, especially while taking pictures like that.
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This weekend I went to Indiana and Indianapolis. The weather wasn't very good but I still took pictures. I really liked the way buildings or the clouds were mirrored on the glass facade of the buildings. It was a really nice weekend and I am glad I took some pictures. I learned that even if the weather is not very good, good pictures can be taken. Edits, more contrast, black and white and cropping can still make them interesting to look at.
Panoramics are very interesting but also challenging pictures. Our assignment was to take panoramic pictures of our surroundings. I had some problems with these pictures. Compared to my first panoramic assignment the pictures didn't turn out like I wanted them to turn out. All the pictures are made of at least 5 individual pictures with the same exposure and same focus. Putting them together is luckily not our job, but Photoshop can put them automatically together. The very last panoramic picture for example is made of 15 pictures.
As my second assignment I chose to take pictures of the nature. Since spring is coming it was the perfect assignment to do. All the sudden so many trees and flowers started blooming. You could even smell them everywhere. I had a lot of fun walking around in the sun and taking pictures of all the flowers. The moon was also very pretty one day so I decided to put this in my assignment. f/3.5 shutter speed:1/400 ISO: 80 I learned that looking closer at the things sometimes is better than taking a picture of everything at one. For example the flowers look much better close up than just the whole tree. Also is the perspective really important so that I don't place all of the flowers in the center of the picture.
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