HDR Zimmer tower

Somehow, yesterday, someone build a jetty around the corner. I wonder what it will be for.

There were 2 little doggies on the ferry.

The swan family is still together. They're all doing very well.

Marjolein went to Belgium this weekend and made a very nice picture of the Zimmer tower in the town of Lier. (More info on the tower here)

The picture she took is on the left. The picture on the right was enhanced using an HDR tool.

Here as well, original picture on the left, this time the right was enhanced with HDR a bit stronger.

The results are fantastic I think.

My first HDR picture

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I made this picture using my iPhone this morning on my way to work. Due to the light situation you can hardly see the sub. Nice skies though.

Now keep reading! ;-)

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I recently found out about the HDR technique of combining multiple images of the same object but with different exposures. You usually do this with RAW files or TIFF's because those files maintain their quality better when used for this, but I only had a crappy JPG... Anyway, I made 2 copies of my image using an image editor, both with increased exposure. This was the image with most exposure. Now you can see the sub but the sky is gone.

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But combining all 3 images using a tool called HDRtist (free for OS X) I created this image in which the sub AND the sky looks good!

Nice!

There were also a few geese.

My office. of course it says "007". What else?!

And it rained.