Hello everyone,
I’ve been experimenting with HDR photos this year and have taken quite a few misc shots here and there, principally at Rougham, Duxford, Goodwood Revival and Newark Air Museum.
I know that this technique isn’t to everybody’s taste but it’s really grown on me, especially for aircraft, because it shows detail that would otherwise be lost in a single exposure.
Anyway, here’s a selection – I might have posted a couple of these up before (apologies if so) but most if not all are new:
By: TwinOtter23 - 20th October 2011 at 09:29
Re the Vulcan parts i.e. “….small, long triangular indentations that you can see in the rear section og the fuselage, under and aft of the rudder.” – I will ask our Vulcan ‘presenter’ the next time I see him! 🙂
By: tornado64 - 20th October 2011 at 09:18
there are some superb shots there with only a couple that look ropey a thing to remember is some subjects conditions just don’t suit hdr ( pretty much all the vulcan shots fall into that cattegory ) i think for my prefrences a normal shot would have worked better
as previously mentioned ..watch those horizons… i have a tripod with a spirit level but carefull observation works as well
the chipmonk is my favourite closely followed by the mono spitfire , the chipmonk would benefit from being a little darker and a little more saturation as it looks a little washed out
hdr can be awkward to get right and also judging when to use it but when used right it can be superb
By: nuuumannn - 19th October 2011 at 13:22
The only bits that someone asked me about and I didn’t know the answer were the small, long triangular indentations that you can see in the rear section og the fuselage, under and aft of the rudder. You can see them in this picture
They look like air intakes to me. I don’t know the Vulcan all that well, (although I’ve spent time, much time crawling round inside XM597 in Scotland) they could be an aid to cooling the ECM equipment with ram air? I could be wrong.
The effect you are producing is quite effective, the first image is rather beautiful.
By: SimonR - 18th October 2011 at 13:08
Cheers for the constructive criticism and comments folks.
Johnr – point taken about the skies / horizon. You’re right, I haven’t bothered to keep horizons level, it’s not something that overly bothers me in most cases but I can see that it might improve the images for others… The conical area in the sky in one of the Vulcan images is a perculiar one – it’s completely invisible on my laptop screen and is, I think, a compression artifact. Weird.
Howard – Good to meet you too, yes I’m much more conversant with the various parts of the Vulcan, even the radar in the nose, where I climbed to try and help identify a radar transmitter/receiver that was found in the Hastings. The only bits that someone asked me about and I didn’t know the answer were the small, long triangular indentations that you can see in the rear section og the fuselage, under and aft of the rudder. You can see them in this picture:
I was wondering if they’re part of the countermeasure systems.
David – It’s pretty straightforward, you need a digital camera that’s able to do auto-bracketing and some software to compile the image. I use a Canon EOS 600D Digital SLR and Photomatix Pro software. There’s a lot more info about HDR here.
Cheers all!
By: David Harvey - 18th October 2011 at 09:34
Hello Simon,
I really like the HDR effect and it is something I fancy trying. What camera equipment did you use?
By: TwinOtter23 - 18th October 2011 at 08:22
It was good to meet you on Saturday Simon and you’ve posted a nice selection of images from Newark – I hope you can identify all of the different external features on the Vulcan that were mentioned during the talk!! 😉
By: johnr - 17th October 2011 at 17:32
Very dramatic pictures Simon but there are a couple of things I don’t like.
I think that you ought to get your horizons level and I think that you have overdone the sky in the Vulcan pictures – it goes from deep blue (nice) to turquoise (not nice). Also in the view of the Vulcan fin there is a strange conical shape in the sky on the right.
Keep persevering
John
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