Flickr Fun

Obviously, this "thing" was a nice task to complete since I have a passion for photography and enjoy looking at most pictures. I am not a fan of Flickr, however, as I feel like there are many superior sites out there for what I need. Flickr is a great amateur, friends & family photo sharing venue but lacks a true "art" quality. pBase, on the other hand, is a great online photography gallery that is exclusively used by at minimum serious amateur photographers to display their work. At pBase, you don't have to wade through endless pictures of last weekend's frat party or Aunt Rhonda's trip to the mountains to find quality art. This, of course, is just a personal opinion of mine based on what I am looking for. Flickr is free, and it does serve its purpose.

The photo I chose to blog about is a photo tagged with "HDR." If you know anything about photography, specifically exposure, you know that it is very easy to have a bad exposure when taking a picture in either bright light or low light. The shadows will either be black, or the bright areas will end up white. This is an undesirable effect. A photo should represent a more true appearance. A new photo editing program allows the user to take up to 7 (or some a few more!) photos of the same scene, at the same time, exposing each photo to pick up all the detail from the highlights to the shadow areas, and then stitch all 7 photos together into one perfect picture that holds the true detail, texture, and color from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights - something impossible with "traditional" photography. The result is an amazing picture that while life-like, looks a bit unnatural because it is capturing something our eye is not use to seeing. Totally confused? Don't worry about it. You don't need to understand what's happening to enjoy the outcome. My quick tour of Flickr turned up this great HDR image. This photo was taken and post processed by D e e v a.