Last week I organised a photographic evening at Lowestoft for the camera club:
This trip, part of the workshops that I run for the club, was very much a learning exercise of all of us – trying out different techniques and compositions and seeing what works. The image above of the marina was a 3-exposure HDR image taken with the camera leaning on the bars of the fence around the marina. (HDR is a technique of taking a set of photographs from too dark to too light then processing them on the computer using specialist software to merge the tones to show more detail in darker and lighter areas.) The sky was actually very dark – the brightness towards the horizon has been emphasised by the HDR processing.
The next view shows an accommodation platform for the North Sea rigs being built:
Although I was pleased with the outcome of this ( a previous set had the top of the crane missing) I am puzzled by the 3 halos around the lights. These show in the ‘overexposed’ image of the HDR set and have been emphasised by the processing. Strangely, I have not seen these before or since.
This next image shows the coloured lighting of the ‘Iconic’ restaurant:
The lighting of this building continuously changes so, during the long exposures of the 3 images for the HDR processing it did change colours. I think the final result does look quite pleasing.
Finally, I show a montage of 24 images of the Iconic restaurant that I created to show the range of colours that illuminate the building:
The full set of images taken during this evening can be seen in my personal gallery.