Here is a recap of my latest HDR experiments. It is by no means perfect and remains a work in progress.
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VanDusen Botanical Garden in the fall
Fall colors
No, this is not a painting...
A fog bank rolls over Canada Place
Long exposure of the moonlit Seawall - Bracketing turned out to be impracticle because of the extremelly long exposures needed for the highlights without much results. So I ended up using only the correctly exposed shot to get my brackets in the RAW converter.
Stormy sky to the south
Siwash Rock
Dr Sun Yat Tsen Chinese Gardens
The old and the new - To the left, One Wall Center, tallest building in Vancouver at 150 m. It's a very slick looking glass tower, very narrow in one direction, that features roof-mounted water ballasts to damper the effect of wind gusts.
Lynn Creek
The lighthouse at Atkinson Point - Shot during a late afternoon cruise with Prince of Whales. The boat speed prevented me from bracketing and I used 3 exposures from a single RAW to strech the tonal range a little.
VanDusen Botanical Gardens
Balanced stones on the Seawall - Probably arranged there by local artist Kent Avery, the stones are not glued to each other and the sculptures are sometimes short-lived.
Exaggerated HDR on Bowen Island - This was done with a trial version of Photomatix. I made a much more conservative version of the image, but also played with extreme settings and somehow, this one became my favourite. It sits half way between a painting and a photograph and makes up for the lack of depth of field of the scene...
Street chess, Robson Street - I once again enjoy the slightly surreal effect of Photomatix that enhances textures and micro-contrast. The slow shutter speed blurred the moving objects and background, focusing the shot on the perfectly still and thoughtful players.
Coal Harbour towers
Sunset on the Fraser River
Trees Organic Coffee Shop
Chess players
The Steam Clock in a London-like fog - Gastown
Lynn Creek
Lenticular clouds
Vancouver International Airport
Buddhist Temple in Richmond - I was kindly invited to join the monks for for a frugal lunch but had to decline, on a hunt for cranberry fields.
Sun Yat Tsen Gardens
The arch - VanDusen gardens
Going for a swim - Canadian Geese in White Rock
Windy night - White Rock
Gastown
Vancouver skies
Lynn Creek
Lynn Creek in winter
Relections
Vancouver Art Gallery and in the background, the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 30's.
Mad sky
Vancouver Lookout in the fog
Lakeside
Fraser River
Rowing in Coal Harbour
Burrard Inlet and Port of Vancouver - In the foreground, the Centerm and Vanterm terminals and their Post and Super-Post-Panamax gantry cranes, and the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge in a distance.
The 116,000 tones, 2600 pax Sapphire Princess docked at Canada Place.
English Bay
Bowen Island
The North Shore ablaze
The North Shore
Grouse Mountain
Grouse Mountain and the Vancouver Harbour Airport ATC tower - 5th busiest airport in BC with 60,000 movements a year (float-planes and helicopters only).
Dusk on Grouse Mountain
Dusk on Grouse Mountain 2
Night skiing
Eerie
The shelter
Pause
English Bay
Tidal pools - White Rock
Friends
Tidal pools
Friends 2
