I've purchased a Lensbabie 3G along with the Wide Angle / Macro kit recently and have taken on a project for myself to develop my own Signature Style of HDR (high dynamic range imaging) Photography. I figured with the wild results you can create with this lens along with using HDR Techniques I can format a pretty cool style of photography for myself to set me apart from everyone else out there. This will come in handy while doing Weddings & Portraits along with Landscape shots to create some pretty cool captures.
I have an idea in my head of what I want to accomplish now it's just implementing my plan and figuring out HOW to do what I have in my head. I have no doubt I'll be able to do it, it's just a matter of finding the TIME in between so many bookings this summer since business has been very brisk with Weddings, In Home Portrait Sessions and Parties lately. But hopefully when I complete this project I'll have a very unique HDR style that when it's seen folks will know who it was created by and automatically say "Oh that's a Bill Pador creation" just by looking at it! That's my goal and I want stop trying until I accomplish it.
I've gone ahead and gathered some of the finest software programs & plug in filters for CS3 to help in my venture. So far for the HDR flight, PhotoMatix & a new one called DYNAMIC PHOTO HDR found at http://www.mediachance.com/ have been a pleasure to use and I'm getting fantastic results from them. Especially DYNAMIC PHOTO HDR which has a really fantastic TONE MAPPING element that is exactly what I was looking for n terms of results. The photo at the top of this article was taken with my D300 using my Nikkor 18-200 VR lens and 5 bracketed frames with a -1 to +1 exposure step on a tripod in front of my house just to see what kind of results I could get with the Tone Mapper and as you can see the results can get pretty radical when used even on a simple photo. So hopefully once I get the Lensbabie 3G down I'll be able to utilize my skills and the new software to create works of art that set me apart from the rest of the photography world.
Well that's about it for today's entry, it's back to work and then some sleep. Have a great day all and I'll see you again soon. Remember, every photo is someones work of art, look at it and try to see what story the photographer is trying to tell because there is a story behind every photo and a memory to be shared with the world !
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