holidays coming to an end

Monday it is workworkwork again. the way of repeating the word three times to emphasize that there is a lot of something there or going on is a local habit. If multiplying verbs and nouns is not enough to cover all the threatening stretches of silence, you can say "bla-bla-bla et comme ça" and "le voilà". People hate silence. The seem to be stuck on oral phase: They have to talk, kiss, smoke, eat or drink incessantly. 

They drive me nuts.

As for my HDR experiment, I have now noticed that there are pictures that are correctly exposed and well within the contrast range and they number increases dramatically as one brackets the exposure with ±1.67 stops. Then there are some shots that "justify" the use of HDR but the end result is not necessarily better than the middle orginal.

And then there are shots that improve. 

I am not talking about making unnatural "creative" shots just for the heck of it. I am after a natural rendition, something that we subjectively experience with the help of our magnificent image processing grayware. We do color correction, 3-D rendition, histogram flattening etc. at a fraction of a second without even appreciating what is going on. Cameras are not like that at all. Yet.

So I took off after 6 to catch some morning light in the nearby marsh. I was not very impressed, it was quite dull with clear skies. But I shot 1GB CF-card full anyway. Bracketing!

Normally one walks 3 hours and takes (old habit) about 35 shots of which 4 turn out OK.

So I got home, uploaded my catch on my Mac and got three pictures that I liked.

I did HDR transformation on one of the shots but I am not going to tell which one.

All I can say that it took quite a while to mix the three shots together and even after all the effort I am pretty sure that no one could tell the manipulated shot apart from the others.

Not better, not worse, not more or less synthetic than the others.

Playplayplay.

GOOD!