Tag Archives: HDR

Road Through the Vineyard

1 Reply

I’ve commented on it a few times. We had a magical long weekend in Yakima Valley. It was a few years back.  We were in the middle of a photog class and the missus’ project was HDR photos.  I’m not sure how we managed it, but we discovered a relatively remote set of vineyards. It was just about an hour before sunset.   She took some really incredible shots, these have to be the best memories of that weekend.

We also went to ~6 wineries, which always makes me happy.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 17mm | f/4.0 | 1/3200th | ISO100

WA State Vineyards

Leave a reply

I didn’t think I would say this. I’m having some very fond memories of our trip to the Yakima Valley last year.  We went for a photo project, but we also tasted some great WA State wines.  Highlight of the trip for me was Hedges Winery, they have some absolutely great wines for really good value.  My favorite is the Hedges Family Estate – a wonderful wine for a mere $25/bottle.

Nice wines.  I’ll have some next time I get back to WA State.  This wasn’t taken at Hedges, but at a vineyard just down the road.

Canon EOS 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 55mm | 1/160th | ISO100

Sunset and vineyards and mountains

Leave a reply

Hi all – I’m sending this from our new digs (temporary housing) from our new country (way down under).  Couldn’t be more excited to be down here and having new opportunities to travel and take photos.  We (the other half of Paul Rin) have been plotting and scheming on new places to travel.  We are proposing a new project – Beaches of the South Pacific – and yes, that’s just a great reason to get me to more beaches…

Today’s photo goes back to last spring and to Yakima.  We are still unclear on what mountain that is in the distance, but pretty sure it’s Mount Rainier. This photo was taken at about 8:30 PM, as the spring day was winding down.  Looking forward to more very different vineyard lands in the near future.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 55mm | f/4.0 | 1/160th | ISO100

Over the Grounds at the Winery

Leave a reply

During out stay in Australia over the holidays, we went wine tasting in the Yarra Valley outside of Melbourne.  We visitied Sticks Winery, which was good, relatively easy drinking, fruit focused wines.  We visited Domaine Portet Winery, which was much more refined and classy.  Finally, we visited Tarrawarra winery, which was generally good wine, but had a feel of mass-production behind it.  We also had lunch at Tarrawarra, which was really good food, but the service was a little pretentious.  The photo below was looking out from the tasting room and over the grounds, which were beautiful.  Again, used HDR technique to give slightly more depth.

Canon 7D | Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 | 31mm | f/18 | 1/250th | ISO400

Apocolypse over Air New Zealand

Leave a reply

Hi all – apologies for the disappearance, but we’re back with some very special photos.  Here is my very first HDR shot.  For those of you that are not familiar, HDR stands for High Dynamic Range photography. It is a process where you combine a handful of photos. These photos have different exposure levels. They are combined to create a single image.  Opinion is pretty much split on this style of photography.  Many people say that the images are too color-contrasted. They argue that it makes images look flat.  Others say the images are closer to what the human eye sees. This is true if you don’t make the HDR look like a cartoon effect.

I personally like them, and here’s my first one.  We flew overnight between San Francisco and Auckland, New Zealand.  The sun was rising in the distance. I was trying out a new 14mm Canon lens that I bought. I was also adding in the HDR automatic exposure bracketing.  The result is sort of an ‘apocolypse over Air New Zealand’.  Hope you enjoy!!

Canon 7D | Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L | 14mm | f/5.0 | 1/100th | ISO100