© Billy Wilson 2010
A waterfall in the forest. Last week an young man died at this waterfall. Downstream from here a powerhouse feeds into the stream from the dam upstream. When I visited it today a big beaver popped out from inside of it.
About the Photo
*Camera: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XS *Lens: EF-S 18-55mm ƒ/3.5-5.6 IS *Shutter Speed: N/A *Aperture Value: ƒ/11 *ISO: 100 *Focal Length: 18mm (28.8mm Equivalent in 35mm film)
I shot this on a tripod using mirror lockup, a polarizing filter, and a 2Sec. selftimer. This image is composed of 8 different exposures, one average exposure, three 1 stop overexposures, and four 1 stop underexposures. I first opened the RAW files in ACR and removed the chromatic aberrations and did slight sharpening. Then I opened the RAW files in Photomatix Pro and tone mapped them to my liking, but I couldn't get an HDR with all of the highlight and shadow detail I wanted so I make one HDR that was underexposed and showed highlight detail and I made one HDR that was overexposed and showed shadow detail. I then opened the HDRs in CS4 and double processed them together by mixing each one's highlight and shadow detail. Then I removed some distracting branches with the clone tool and burned the tree trunks darker in the background to give the image more order. I slightly saturated and darkened the pine needles on the ground to make a better contrast with the green pine needles. I finally converted the 16 bit TIFF into a Jpeg and converted to sRGB colourspace to upload to the internet. Since I double processed two HDR images I'm calling this technique HHDR.
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