Yes I know this is a re-posting of the first blog post, but I wanted to show the before with it.  Also is a reminder to not discard images when the dynamics of the image aren’t that special.  When I took pictures of this balloon, I was on the way back from a photo-walk that was not very fruitful.  I saw the balloon and rushed to get to a place where the composition of the photo would be good.  The place I found was looking right into the morning sun.  I knew the sky was going to be blown out and knew I didn’t have much chance to get the good exposure bracket for an HDR with how fast the balloon was moving.  So I set my exposure the best I could and shot fast and furious.  This frame was the best out of the couple dozen that I took.  When I got to post-processing time I was disappointed with the results, I couldn’t see any mountains in the background and the contrast was blah.  I had been experimenting with single image HDR’s that the original looked better than this, but I thought I’d give it a try to see if it worked.  Turns out after fidgeting with the photomatix sliders enough, I found the misty mountains in the background, and rather th0ught that the flare of the sun added a certain mystique to the images.  Turns out that I still got the image that I saw with my eyes using single image HDR processing on a blah image.

Here we go again with the HDR’s… which means that I have viewing the world in HDR for the length of time that I have images on my hard drive.  I do like to take other imagery… but it’s on my other computer.  I’ll get to that sometime but for now, enjoy.

Quick notes on this image.  I was on my home from work commiserating to my wife about the lack of personal, do what I want photo opportunities when I stepped out of the car at home seeing this sunset with photo fever in my blood.  I told my wife I was leaving… I knew I had minimal time to get to somewhere where there was scenery that would be complimented by the vibrant colors of the sky.  After I got to the parking lot of a private school across from the LDS Mount Timpanogos Temple, my only danger was the ice that nearly landed me on my… well that’s about it…

Well I think that I finally got it to work the way that I wanted it to.  After my first post about being full of hot air… well lets just say that since I couldn’t get images to display correctly, so I temporarily stopped until I figured that out.  And it works now!

Anyways, I’ve got another HDR image for today.  it was rather a bland morning up American Fork Canyon when I took this picture, and it’s yet another example of how HDR can take a blah image and make it… well, alright.

So this is the 7th time(I think) that I have started a blog due to various reasons that I ought not bore you with.  I really love photography and I love to share/ partake of photography by the means that has been dubbed ‘blogging’ and that is why I’m here.  Well that and I think that this HDR image is really awesome… and I hope that I’m not full of hot air like this balloon and can continue to blog.