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I recently upgraded from a Canon Rebel XT to a Nikon D7000. That increased my megapixels to 16.2 and added tons of functionality including a built-in intervalometer. Unfortunately, the automatic exposure bracketing is limited to 2EV stops and three exposures. Of course, until I started researching this week I knew nothing of AEB other than it would take multiple pictures and I could select the best one and delete the other two. But then I learned of HDR photography which uses all of these exposure levels to improve coloring, depth and even out shadows.
Without getting all technical, it might be better to show you. Here are the three pictures that were taken within one second and loaded into Aperture. They are rather large for a web page, so I will provide links.
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
So I played around with a new Aperture plugin I found named Hydra HDR. I have not licensed it yet thus the watermark, but here is the result of merging the three photos into one to get the best exposure levels in all areas of the photo.
Final HDR image
I will try to modify this article later to use smaller versions of the images. |
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Here is an interesting one for you - one that shows "media" outlets tend to invent their own news stories. In my email at 11:19am I received an email from ZDNet Tech Update Today that had an interesting link - "NASA launches space shuttle endeavor's final flight (photos)" Interested to see if Gabriel Giffords was able to attend the launch, I googled news articles for Endeavor and found this little blurb from the Associated Press - "NASA abruptly called off space shuttle Endeavour's final launch Friday, April 29, 2011 because of a puzzling heater failure in a critical power unit, disappointing huge crowds converging on the area for the afternoon liftoff."
I tend to think that the Associated Press is more reliable than ZDNet. What makes the AP more believable is that has the shuttle indeed launched, the statement above would be easily proven fictitious and completely discredit them. But assuming AP accurate means that ZDNet is making up stories. So which is it? |
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For those who know me, this has long been a complaint of mine - The failure to proofread or have a vocabulary containing words of more than three syllables. I once thought this was a localized issue due to the rural area of Minnesota in which I lived. But even after moving to a large metropolitan area, I see the same thing. Everywhere you turn, there are signs misspelled on gas stations, in front of stores, on television commercials and even during the news. I know we intentionally dumb down our newspapers to a fourth grade reading level, but do we really need to do it everywhere else?
Then you see things like this on television.
Really? The Jew York Jets? You know someone is losing their job over this little failure to proofread. Or did the copyist intend it as a joke?
I used to find humor in things like this. But I could spend my entire day writing companies offering "spinal assements" or weathermen reporting 301 degrees in Willmar, MN on an apparently balmy November day. Let's not even get into our politicians creating such stupidity as "refudiate" and then claiming "Shakespeare made words up too." Lady, Shakespeare you are not!
If we want others to see us as intelligent, we must first have intelligence. And if that is beyond our capabilities, perhaps we should try to fake it better.
We look like idiots to the rest of the world. Watch any British television show and its American equivalent and the differences become glaringly obvious. Americans are becoming complacent in their stupidity and have no energy to put forth the effort to correct it. |
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