Plan:
As my planned shoot for today can't go ahead, I am going to conduct some experiments on HDR photography using some photos of my dog I have shot over the last few months and some from when I first brought him home. I am going to use a tutorial I found online:
HDR Photography CS6 to give some of my images depth of contrast in terms of the colours, highlights and shadows, and then I am going to experiment with various multiple imagery techniques to show the contrast of when he was a young puppy, to how he looks now, to essentially show contrast in age.
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| Original copy |
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| HDR copy |
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| Normal Levels/Curves copy |
I think that the tutorial has worked well in the sense that it has definitely given the original image that HDR effect. I think it looks particulalry dramatic on his tummy fur and on the ears, but I think that because of the paleness of his fur, especially on the top of his head, it doesn't work as the colour just blends in with the cream background, so it would have perhaps worked better with a darker backdrop. The technique works by combining different copies of the same image with different exposure levels. I also edited the original copy of the photo with extreme levels and curves like normal and I think on this occasion, the effect looks just as good as the HDR trial, except that the colour looks to dark and overly-edited.
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