I have experimented briefly with high dynamic range (HDR) photography.
This involves taking a number of photographs with slightly different exposure settings and then blending them. It is a technique used to overcome the limited contrast capture of digital cameras.
This photograph is of the Snow Mountain in near Lijiang.
This one is a composite of three photographs, below.
As you can see, none of these photographs captures the full range available to the eye. If the foreground is adequately exposed then detail is lost from the clouds. If the there is good definition in the clouds, the foreground is underexposed and detail lost.
I have not yet had time to tinker with the exposure and colour settings, these are constructed just using the defaults (in any case unless everyone has a colour corrected monitor, there is little point).
Hopefully, I’ll have time to examine this some more in the evenings and try printing one out at a photo lab.
Now, having got through my administration and had a short break, its time to start some research planning.
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People blithely say ‘the camera never lies’ whereas the reality is that it does lie because it can never capture what we see with our eyes and we retain in our imaginations (although that in itself could be a matter of debate). However, with your skills in photography (using different lenses and altering exposure and then blending) you are slowly but surely creating a ‘reality’ with photography. People will most likely sit an argue as to whether or not what you are showing in your images is real or constructed with digital technology. Whatever is the case, the images presented in your most recent blog entries (snow capped mountain and the stone forest) wonderfully show us what you had so eloquently described in your earlier blog entries. Thank you.