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Times are Changing

It's amazing how fast photography is changing. I never gave HDR a thought until just under a year ago when I used my own car for my first HDR experiment on Jan.1st of this year. This photo now just happens to be my #1 most viewed photo at about 50,000 views (mostly because of you do a search for HDR it's usually the #1 or #2 most relevant photo).

And this photo is another in the series I did with my work buddy Jeff. The original Viper photo I posted is now my #1 most interesting photo of all time.

And according to my most interesting photos, the top 14 shots are all HDR shots, all taken this year. My previous #1 shot held that position since I initially posted it over 2 years ago. This was when I was at my peak of doing night-time long exposure shots. At that point, my photography was all about going out somewhere random late at night and taking long exposures at night. I also had my times doing tilt shift miniture fakes and using toy cameras for another way of looking at things as well as using textures to help enhance a photo.

What I'm getting at is that these fads come and go. Who knows what will be next? Years and years ago, improvements in photography came at the advances in use of film, and better lenses, and artificial lighting, but these came at a rate of every few years.

My next goal is to obtain and use slip-in filters to create more natural, even exposures.

I know a lot of people going back to film and understanding the original principles of what makes an out-of-the-camera photo more interesting. I think if we all strive to start there, we'll need to do a lot less enhancing to obtain Explore greatness.. or even the accolades from our peers.

Happy rainy Monday. I hope most of you have all your shopping done.

Taken in: United States / California / Hidden Valley (show map)

Taken on: November 13, 2008

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Groups appears in: • Ventura County • Supercars more » • Quality HDR Automobiles & Trucks • NO WORLD FOR TOMORROW « less

Camera: NIKON D200, f/5.0, 0.7 sec, 15mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	NIKON D200
Aperture:	f/5.0
Exposure Time:	0.7
Focal Length:	15mm
ISO:	100
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Windows
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