Planning Shots for Wind Pump Photographs

 The main object of yesterday's landscape day was to use a wide -angle set up with filters to achieve some 'classic' Norfolk views. I used my compact (X100V) as a planning tool to see what compositions might work and what colour and 'information' might be achievable. The X100V has a built-in neutral density filter and also a HDR mode producing a raw file both very useful for this task. I find I can handhold to 1/8th sec. These are raws from the camera at ISO160 with no noise reduction or sharpening.

Bradgate Park RPS Nature Trip

 Yesterday and today were challenging days weatherwise for our visit to Bradgate Park in Leicestershire. Torrential rain in the morning on Sunday gave way to sunny intervals. Unfortunately the wet conditions were too much for my weather-resistant telephoto lens and by afternoon was fogged up inside due to internal condensation. This is a set of images taken with my X100V in the afternoon - a mixture of slow shutterspeed, multiple exposure and HDR.

Dorset 7 Kimmeridge Bay

 A few images from an afternoon visit to Kimmeridge Bay where the tide was coming in fast covering the rock pavement. Taken with ultra HDR mode on the Fuji which allows the full tonal range to be captured accentuating the colours. Last two image, Barry, Debs and Jim in action - some of our party of 12 from Cambridge CC enjoying a week of sunshine in Dorset.

St Tuguals Chapel on Herm Island

HDR of Five Shots 2 stops apart                            Middle Exposure

     

 While on Herm we set 6 tasks to keep us and the other photographers occupied. One of the categories was an interior shot. The first image is taken with the Sony RX100 in-camera HDR mode with 6 stops difference.  The others are 5 bracketed images (2 stops apart) taken on the EOS 5D processed with HDR Effex Pro2. The fourth image is a single exposure shot just to compare with the previous HDR.

St Apolline's Chapel Guernsey

 During our time in Guernsey we visited St Apolline's Chapel, a very small chapel with limited natural lighting and some veyr old wall paintings. This was a chance to shoot bracketed exposures for HDR. I now have HdrEffex Pro2, which has done an excellent job on the five-exposure sets (2 and 4 stops over and under exposed).

Further HDR Trials

 These are further experimets with HDR Darkroom as I still have a trial version. It is very easy to use and produces a realistic to a more surreal effect depending on the settings.

Cambridge HDR with FX100

 I am still trying to decide if the in-camera HDR on the sony FX100 is worth using - it certainly does a good job on high contrast scenes but I am not convinced it is better than doing HDR from a single RAW file. Three separate exposure images recombined with HDR Pro would probably give better result but this is not an option when a tripod cannot be used as in Cambridge Colleges. The left-hand images are the best adjustments from a single image (jpeg), righthand are the HDR output from the camera. I need to do a raw image as well as the in-camera HDR.