Rick Cloran, HonPSA, MPSA
About the Image(s)
Made during the recent Rapid City Photo Festival at an old abandoned town called Owanka. I was using my Canon R5 and tried the HDR bracket feature which provided some interesting results. This shot is based on a three shot bracket controlled by the camera. The “metered” exposure was 1/250 at F 11 iso 800. The dark exposure was 1/250 F 11 at iso 200. The light exposure was 1/60 F 11 iso 800. I’m assuming that the internal program changing the iso rather than the shutter speed for the dark exposure is because a lower iso would result in less noise in theory. The lens was a Canon 24-105 at 32mm. The blend is actually based on the jpegs it made of the bracket sequence rather than the raw files. It was done in Aurora as I didn’t feel there was any ghosting or chromatic aberration to speak of. All in all I thought it came out fairly good for something where I let the camera run the bracket computation. A little cloning to remove a few odd items in the field behind and a HSL to pull back on the cyan color that showed up in the roof, but little else other than sharpening beyond that.