This is the food court in the Canal Walk mall at Century City in Cape Town.
This photo was taken several years ago, at the same time as this one. They were both shot in JPEG on a 3 megapixel point and shoot. There is a lot of dynamic range in that scene so having made quite a few HDR images from a single RAW, I decided to see what was possible from a single JPEG. I am quite happy with the result.
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Photographed at the 2005 TFDC air show and processed using an HDR technique to bring out the detail in both dark and light areas.
I’ve been going through my older photos looking for ones that make good candidates for enhancing using HDR techniques. This is one of the ones that gave a particularly good result.
Inspired by a tutorial from a magazine, I made this image using only my computer. I took the photograph of the screwdriver with my scanner and did everything else in Photoshop.
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A different view of Table Mountain.
This is not a black and white world
To be alive
I say that the colours must swirl
And I believe
That maybe today
We will all get to appreciate
The Beauty of Grey
(Ed Kowalczyk, Live)
This image started off with me going out of my mind because I hadn’t taken a photo for nearly two weeks. On Tuesday afternoon, a public holiday, I grabbed my Fuji S7000, stuck on my ringflash, selected super macro and went in search of macro candidates. One of these was an energy saving light bulb hanging in a wall-mounted light fitting with no shade. Because there is a dresser beneath it I couldn’t frame the photo in the viewfinder or LCD so I just stuck the lens up to the bulb, with the ring flash literally around it, hoped the auto focus would work and fired off a few frames. One of these was useable but pretty boring on its own so I started playing around with giving the tubes colour and make them appear to glow. This worked pretty well so I went on and made this grid of differently coloured lights.
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