Review February's assignment "Frame"
HDR -Jim Cullum
In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than standard digital imaging techniques or photographic methods. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes, ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight
HDR (Software)
- Radiance - HDR rendering software (free)
- Hypershot - HDR rendering software
- CinePaint - open source HDR image editing software, forked from GIMP in 1998[22]
- Unified Color HDR PhotoStudio – an advanced HDR imaging software
- Highlight headroom
- Photomatix Pro (MacOSX, Win32; USD 99; free trial with watermark)
- SilverFast HDR / HDR Studio – 48 bit per pixel image processing software
- Hugin - open source HDR merging and panorama stitching software (Linux, MacOSX, Unix, Windows; GPL-2+ free of cost)
- Dynamic Photo HDR (MacOSX, Win32; USD 55; trial available)
Get out of your comfort zone and shoot something that you don't typically like to shoot or don't have experience or confidence in. An example "I'm not very good at taking landscape pictures so I tend to avoid those. I like landscapes, but I don't like taking picture of them." For others it might be portraits or fill flash or cityscapes or sports or macro, or... or... or...
April Program:
"Wildlife Photography"
Ernie Lombard will share tips and insight into capturing stunning wildlife photographs. He will present imagery from his most recent trip to Africa.
