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		<title>My Very First Harley Davidson</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/04/harley-davison-d300-photograph-hdr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While most of my time in Barcelona was surrounded by miserable weather and rain, I did quickly snap this fine piece of machinery parked along a narrow street. I&#8217;ve walked by quite a few motorcycles in my time (eh big deal?) but this is actually the first time I&#8217;ve had my camera handy when doing [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While most of my time in Barcelona was surrounded by miserable weather and rain, I did quickly snap this fine piece of machinery parked along a narrow street. I&#8217;ve walked by quite a few motorcycles in my time (<em>eh big deal?</em>) but this is actually the first time I&#8217;ve had my camera handy when doing so. It&#8217;s a real shame that the weather was so shitty while I was there, oh well, maybe I&#8217;ll go back later on in the year&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.smugmug.com/gallery/7739552_3He4s#505028588_zfpyU"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/april09/06-barcelona-bike.jpg" alt="06 barcelona bike My Very First Harley Davidson"  title="My Very First Harley Davidson" /></a></p>
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		<title>Checking Out The Mediterranean</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/03/checking-out-the-mediterranean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Velatta Bay is a fortified peninsula on the east coast of Malta &#8211; from it&#8217;s walls you can see out into the Mediterranean Sea at all angles (eh except when looking at Malta). It was from these docks below that getting from Sliema to Valetta was just a quick skip across the bay. Camera Settings [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Velatta Bay is a fortified peninsula on the east coast of Malta &#8211; from it&#8217;s walls you can see out into the Mediterranean Sea at all angles (eh except when looking at Malta). It was from these docks below that getting from Sliema to Valetta was just a quick skip across the bay.</p>
<p>Camera Settings (5 NEF files &#8211; Nikon D300 Body, Nikkor 18-200mm VR Lens, Camera was propped on the wall.)</p>
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<li>Aperture: f/7.1</li>
<li>ISO: 200</li>
<li>Lens: 18-200@18mm</li>
<li>Shutter Speed: 1/1600s, 1/800s, 1/400s, 1/200s, 1/100s</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/march09/19-overlooking-valetta-bay.jpg" alt="19 overlooking valetta bay Checking Out The Mediterranean"  title="Checking Out The Mediterranean" /></p>
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		<title>At The Museum Of Natural History</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/02/at-the-museum-of-natural-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All my Paris photos have conveniently disappeared from where they are supposed to be on my computer, so here is an old shot taken in London over a year ago. I didn&#8217;t have my D300 at that time, instead I used a Finepix S9600. It&#8217;s taken outside the Natural History Museum in London. Camera Settings [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>All my Paris photos have conveniently disappeared from where they are supposed to be on my computer, so here is an old shot taken in London over a year ago. I didn&#8217;t have my D300 at that time, instead I used a Finepix S9600. It&#8217;s taken outside the Natural History Museum in London.</p>
<p>Camera Settings (1 RAF file)</p>
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<li>Aperture: f/4</li>
<li>ISO: 80</li>
<li>Lens: 8.1mm</li>
<li>Shutter Speed: 1/220s</li>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/london/february09/22-queue-london-natural-history-museum-d300.jpg" alt="22 queue london natural history museum d300 At The Museum Of Natural History"  title="At The Museum Of Natural History" /></p>
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		<title>Sacre Coeur In The Morning</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/02/sacre-coeur-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was the view I had every morning while stayng in Paris &#8211; Sacre Coeur is apparently the highest part of Paris, and gives a great view of most of the city, although you cannot see the Eiffel Tower from it, which is kind of unusual. If you do head up this direction might I [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was the view I had every morning while stayng in Paris &#8211; Sacre Coeur is apparently the highest part of Paris, and gives a great view of most of the city, although you cannot see the Eiffel Tower from it, which is kind of unusual.</p>
<p>If you do head up this direction might I advise you do not stop for any of the &#8216;enthusiastic&#8217; guys that try to sell you any old shit they have on them &#8211; it still annoys me today <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' title="Sacre Coeur In The Morning" /> </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/february09/13-sacre-coeur-morning-d300-photography.jpg" alt="13 sacre coeur morning d300 photography Sacre Coeur In The Morning"  title="Sacre Coeur In The Morning" /></p>
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		<title>Refreshments In A Rude Cafe</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/02/refreshments-in-a-rude-cafe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After walking what seems like for an eternity around the Musée d&#8217;Orsay myself and a friend joined two other friends in a cafe across the road. We sat contently until an obnoxious waiter, clearly rueing the decision to become a waiter, approached us, said Bonjour (we didn&#8217;t really see him come over since we were [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After walking what seems like for an eternity around the Musée d&#8217;Orsay myself and a friend joined two other friends in a cafe across the road. We sat contently until an obnoxious waiter, clearly rueing the decision to become a waiter, approached us, said Bonjour (we didn&#8217;t really see him come over since we were tired) and then went ballistic because we didn&#8217;t say Bonjour back to him. Not the best way to teach us manners I thought&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/february09/refreshments-in-a-french-cafe-hdr-d300.jpg" alt="refreshments in a french cafe hdr d300 Refreshments In A Rude Cafe"  title="Refreshments In A Rude Cafe" /></p>
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		<title>A View From The Top Of The Arc de Triomphe</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/01/a-view-from-the-top-of-the-arc-de-triomphe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I walked slowly down the Champs-Elysees towards one of Paris&#8217;s crowning jewels; the Arc de Triomphe, I wondered just how incredible the view would be. I knew luggin my idiot tripod all over Paris would surely pay off now. Myself and some friends climbed the spiralling steps to the top, emerging into a scence [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I walked slowly down the Champs-Elysees towards one of Paris&#8217;s crowning jewels; the Arc de Triomphe, I wondered just how incredible the view would be. I knew luggin my idiot tripod all over Paris would surely pay off now. Myself and some friends climbed the spiralling steps to the top, emerging into a scence of light an colour &#8211; the Champs-Elysees stretched out below on one side, the Eiffel Tower on another. I quickly set up my tripod and attached my D300, ready to take some seriously cool shots. However some douchebag security dick had other ideas&#8230;</p>
<p>Aparently you are not alowed to use tripods when photographing from the top of the Arc de Triomphe!! The reason? Tripods are deemed professional pieces of equipment and so you pictures will be TOO GOOD!! I&#8217; standing there with a D300 (which I have a fair grasp of its many functions) and a crappy €20 rickedy tripod, and it&#8217;s the tripod that is forbidden for fear of good photos!! </p>
<p>Needless to say I was irked. The few shots I took were handheld, including this one. The shutter speed was 1.3 seconds &#8211; not bad!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/view-from-top-arc-de-triomphe.jpg" alt="view from top arc de triomphe A View From The Top Of The Arc de Triomphe"  title="A View From The Top Of The Arc de Triomphe" /></p>
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		<title>Shortlisted For The February Schmap Berlin Guide</title>
		<link>http://projectvisual.net/2009/01/shortlisted-for-the-february-schmap-berlin-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got word from Schmap that one of my images on flickr had been shortlisted for inclusion into the February edition of the Schmap Berlin Guide &#8211; nice surprise The photo in question was taken with my S9600 and what seems like oh so long ago, but the only good quality version I have [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I got word from Schmap that one of my images on flickr had been shortlisted for inclusion into the February edition of the Schmap Berlin Guide &#8211; nice surprise <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="Shortlisted For The February Schmap Berlin Guide" />  The photo in question was taken with my S9600 and what seems like oh so long ago, but the only good quality version I have unfortunately is of the flickr upload &#8211; I&#8217;ll have to locate the RAW original. As soon as I hear any updates I&#8217;ll be sure to shout it to the world!</p>
<p>In other non-important news I&#8217;ve started doing some time lapse photography &#8211; got to branch out a little. The first 47 seconds of my first video have taken 1150 images and I&#8217;d like to get up to at least 3 minutes so there&#8217;s still plenty of work to do! I&#8217;ll be posting it here when it&#8217;s finished&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/boat-river-spree-berlin.jpg" alt="boat river spree berlin Shortlisted For The February Schmap Berlin Guide"  title="Shortlisted For The February Schmap Berlin Guide" /></p>
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		<title>The Forgotten Rusted Out Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did an awful lot of walking while in Paris. I&#8217;d estimate on average about 5 miles everyday &#8211; it didn&#8217;t help that the only shoes I brought were bought just two days previously While on our travels into one of many museums we came across a section with old cannons, tanks, general reminders of [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I did an awful lot of walking while in Paris. I&#8217;d estimate on average about 5 miles everyday &#8211; it didn&#8217;t help that the only shoes I brought were bought just two days previously <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' title="The Forgotten Rusted Out Tank" />  </p>
<p>While on our travels into one of many museums we came across a section with old cannons, tanks, general reminders of long past wars. I can barely imagine this tank clunking along, trying its best not to just grind to a halt in a pool of it&#8217;s own crappyness, but I guess this technology was what was available at the time&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/rusty-tank-museum-paris.jpg" alt="rusty tank museum paris The Forgotten Rusted Out Tank"  title="The Forgotten Rusted Out Tank" /></p>
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		<title>One Of Notre Dame&#8217;s Many Statues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That post from the top of the Arc De Triomphe will have to wait &#8211; there&#8217;s a story attached and I&#8217;ve no time to write it I was surprised to find that you can take photos of nearly anything in Paris &#8211; whether you are in a museum like the Lourve or Notre Dame cathedral, [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That post from the top of the <a href="http://www.projectvisual.net/2009/01/the-arc-de-triomphe-at-night-in-paris/">Arc De Triomphe</a> will have to wait &#8211; there&#8217;s a story attached and I&#8217;ve no time to write it <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' title="One Of Notre Dames Many Statues" /> </p>
<p>I was surprised to find that you can take photos of nearly anything in Paris &#8211; whether you are in a museum like the Lourve or Notre Dame cathedral, nothing is off limits. This is but one of the many statues in Notre Dame, the light everywhere was very low lit, combined with the cold it created a rather gloomy atmosphere.</p>
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		<title>The Arc de Triomphe At Night In Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a HDR photo today but different none the less. Without doubt one of the highlights of Paris was walking along the Champs-Élysées towards the Arc de Triomphe. This is one of the few shots I shoot with my D300 attached to my rather flimsy but protable tripod. The entire street is flooded with lights [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Not a HDR photo today but different none the less. Without doubt one of the highlights of Paris was walking along the Champs-Élysées towards the Arc de Triomphe. This is one of the few shots I shoot with my D300 attached to my rather flimsy but protable tripod. The entire street is flooded with lights after dusk all year around and the view from the top of the Triomphe is something that must be seen to be believed &#8211; I&#8217;ll post that one tomorrow along with a frustrating tale of an authority stamping French douche&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/arc-de-triomphe-at-night.jpg" alt="arc de triomphe at night The Arc de Triomphe At Night In Paris"  title="The Arc de Triomphe At Night In Paris" /></p>
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		<title>The Statue Of Charlemagne Outside Notre Dame In Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notre Dame in Paris is home to bums, entertainers, tourists, and the Statue Of Charlemagne, I believe also known as Charles the Great, or King of the Franks. While at Notre Dame be prepared to be approached by randomers asking stupid questions &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t work to speak back in english as there&#8217;s a good [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Notre Dame in Paris is home to bums, entertainers, tourists, and the Statue Of Charlemagne, I believe also known as Charles the Great, or King of the Franks. While at Notre Dame be prepared to be approached by randomers asking stupid questions &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t work to speak back in english as there&#8217;s a good chance they can speak it. A good tip though, if you can, speak Irish! &#8211; they won&#8217;t have a clue what you are saying, I didn&#8217;t even know fully what I was saying!</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/statue-notre-dame-paris-nikon-d300-hdr-max-photography.jpg" alt="statue notre dame paris nikon d300 hdr max photography The Statue Of Charlemagne Outside Notre Dame In Paris"  title="The Statue Of Charlemagne Outside Notre Dame In Paris" /></p>
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		<title>Flags Of The World</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything in Paris is so much more grander than here in Ireland, buildings are more massive, people are more rude etc&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure this was in Sacré-Coeur, on top of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris I&#8217;ll have you know. While recognizing some of the flags I&#8217;m sorry to say I can&#8217;t put a [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Everything in Paris is so much more grander than here in Ireland, buildings are more massive, people are more rude etc&#8230; I&#8217;m pretty sure this was in Sacré-Coeur, on top of Montmartre, the highest point in Paris I&#8217;ll have you know. While recognizing some of the flags I&#8217;m sorry to say I can&#8217;t put a country to a single one <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' title="Flags Of The World" />  My geography knowledge sucks.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/nikon_d300/january09/world-flags-nikon-d300-hdr-max-photography.jpg" alt="world flags nikon d300 hdr max photography Flags Of The World"  title="Flags Of The World" /></p>
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		<title>A Shining Light On A Gloomy Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way up from Drogheda to Dublin for some Christmas shopping over the holidays I thought some shots of my local train station would present some interesting photographs &#8211; unfortunately it was overcast as hell (and dark) that morning so I missed out on the classic &#8216;sun splitting the clouds&#8217; scene that always makes [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On my way up from Drogheda to Dublin for some Christmas shopping over the holidays I thought some shots of my local train station would present some interesting photographs &#8211; unfortunately it was overcast as hell (and dark) that morning so I missed out on the classic &#8216;sun splitting the clouds&#8217; scene that always makes HDR photos so surreal (I don&#8217;t care much for realistic/proper HDR). Anywho, the juxtaposition of the rather depressing sky and the wall light catched my eye than, and maybe yours now?</p>
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		<title>Plassey Shipwreck on InisOirr</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While over on InisOirr for the Halloween weekend I travelled around the island until I came to the Plassey Shipwreck that features at the beginning of Father Ted (irish TV show). The ship has been sitting in its place since the 1960s and I suppose it&#8217;ll be there for some time more. I only wish [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While over on InisOirr for the Halloween weekend I travelled around the island until I came to the Plassey Shipwreck that features at the beginning of Father Ted (irish TV show). The ship has been sitting in its place since the 1960s and I suppose it&#8217;ll be there for some time more. I only wish I had had my D300 ith me when I was there &#8211; I think some great HDR shots would have come from it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/west_ireland/inis_oirr/plassey-shipwreck-fr-ted-1.jpg" alt="Plassey Shipwreck"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/west_ireland/inis_oirr/plassey-shipwreck-fr-ted-thumb-1.jpg" alt="Plassey Shipwreck 1" title="Plassey Shipwreck on InisOirr" /></p>
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		<title>Sky Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to find one sure photography topic that will give you endless great shots then just look up (you&#8217;re outside right?). On a good cloudy day the sky changes by the minute and presents to you a multitude of shapes and colours. Throw in the sun for good measure and you can capture [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to find one sure photography topic that will give you endless great shots then just look up (you&#8217;re outside right?). On a good cloudy day the sky changes by the minute and presents to you a multitude of shapes and colours. Throw in the sun for good measure and you can capture something real special. I found myself looking skywards after <a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/06/scenic_panorama_view_croagh_patrick_clew_bay/">my climb of Ben Bulben</a>. It was extremely windy, and I can not over-emphesise <b>how</b> windy, so my interest soon turned from making myself dizzy looking up to not falling off the edge of the mountain. In spite of my near death experience I did take three not too shabby shots of the sun passing across my lens &#8211; I was standing in the same position and merely shifted my lens to reposition the sun. TA-DAA! I also did a little touching up on them &#8211; I altered the curves to darken the darks and lighten the lights, and also saturated the blues and yellows a little to bring out the colour in the sky and sun. As soon as I get home to my camera I think I&#8217;ll start a sky portfolio of sorts &#8211; look out for more sky pictures as they happen&#8230;</p>
<div>Sky Pictures: One</div>
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<div>Sky Pictures: Two</div>
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<div>Sky Pictures: Three</div>
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<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
<p><a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/06/scenic_panorama_view_croagh_patrick_clew_bay/">For A Panoramic View, Head To Croagh Patrick</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/09/sunrise-pictures/">Sunrise Pictures</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the morning of the last day of my travels in Corfu, I woke up unusually early (about 6:00am as I recall; it was just before sunrise) and decided to grab my S9600 and venture outwards to see if I could discover any worthy early morning pictures. It was a clear morning and sunrise was [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On the morning of the last day of <a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-corfu/">my travels in Corfu</a>, I woke up unusually early (about 6:00am as I recall; it was just before sunrise) and decided to grab my S9600 and venture outwards to see if I could discover any worthy early morning pictures. It was a clear morning and sunrise was about to hit the horizon. Luckily the hotel I was staying at was situated on Kommeno Bay, giving a wonderful view past the hotel swimming pool out onto the horizon and across to the other side of Corfu Island. Unfortunately by the time I was got into position the sun was already into it&#8217;s journey across the sky! I missed it breaking the horizon by a few minutes but I think the sunrise pictures below are still worth showing to the world. Click on each one to get a much larger sunrise picture (3696 x 2464)</p>
<div>Sunrise Pictures: One</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-1.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-1-thumb.jpg" alt="sunrise pictures 1 thumb Sunrise Pictures"  title="Sunrise Pictures" /></a></p>
<div>Sunrise Pictures: Two</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-2.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-2-thumb.jpg" alt="sunrise pictures 2 thumb Sunrise Pictures"  title="Sunrise Pictures" /></a></p>
<div>Sunrise Pictures: Three</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-3.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-3-thumb.jpg" alt="sunrise pictures 3 thumb Sunrise Pictures"  title="Sunrise Pictures" /></a></p>
<div>Sunrise Pictures: Four</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-4.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/sunrise-pictures/sunrise-pictures-4-thumb.jpg" alt="sunrise pictures 4 thumb Sunrise Pictures"  title="Sunrise Pictures" /></a></p>
<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
<p><a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-corfu/">Photos From Corfu</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/09/sky-pictures/">Sky Pictures</a></p>
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		<title>Photos From Corfu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next up in our &#8216;Photos From&#8217; collection is Corfu! Corfu was the first place I had ever taken my S9600 to so I simply stuck it on Auto and clicked away! I had the privilege of going to Corfu for 5 days in 2007 and do you know what the best part was? &#8211; I [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Next up in our &#8216;Photos From&#8217; collection is Corfu! Corfu was the first place I had ever taken my S9600 to so I simply stuck it on Auto and clicked away! I had the privilege of going to Corfu for 5 days in 2007 and do you know what the best part was? &#8211; I didn&#8217;t pay for any of it! I was sent there for a conference meaning my college pays for the flight and accommodation &#8211; possibly the cheapest holiday I&#8217;ve ever been on! The <a href="http://www.ellada.net/grecotel/corfuimperial/location.php">hotel</a> was without doubt the most amazing hotel I&#8217;ve ever stayed in. I say hotel but it&#8217;s more aptly described as a palace. It deserves 6 stars it was that good &#8211; every morning there was a huge buffet breakfast of fruit juices, cheeses, bread, eggs, hams, fresh vegetables, the works. And there was another buffet in the evening! I learned a whole two words while I was there: Kalimera (Good morning) and Kalispera (Good Evening), very useful for meeting and greeting. I had fantastic weather for the five days and the accomodation was excellent &#8211; everyone had their own little apartment / villa type house; not just a dank room, but a proper living space with a balcony overlooking Kommeno Bay. Corfu Village was just 12km away and could be reached easily by bus &#8211; it&#8217;s a very touristy village, but nice anyway. I took a boat trip around the north coast &#8211; nothing on the coast but hotel after hotel after hotel, it&#8217;s crazy! The competition must be immense. </p>
<div>Kommeno Bay: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-1.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-1.jpg" alt="Kommeno Bay" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Spooky Tree: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-2.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-2.jpg" alt="Spooky Tree" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Corfu Foot Bridge: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-3.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-3.jpg" alt="Corfu Foot Bridge" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Interior of Hotel: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-4.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-4.jpg" alt="Interior Grecotel" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Statue in Corfu Village: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-5.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-5.jpg" alt="Statue in Corfu Village" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Fountain In Corfu Village: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-6.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-6.jpg" alt="Fountain In Corfu Village" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<div>Pigeon In Corfu Village: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-7.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/corfu/corfu-thumb-7.jpg" alt="Pigeon In Corfu Village" title="Photos From Corfu" /></a></p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got about 600 or so photos from Corfu so I&#8217;ll likely do a Part 2 to this short collection.</p>
<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
<p><a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-london-tower-bridge/">Photos From London</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-paris/">Photos From Paris</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-berlin/">Photos From Berlin</a></p>
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		<title>Photos From Berlin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Third in the series of my random city photo postings is from Berlin! &#8211; dating back to March 2008. I seriously just had to get away from Ireland for a few days as college was getting crazy, so when I heard the college German Society were planning a cheap trip away I jumped immediately on [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Third in the series of my random city photo postings is from Berlin! &#8211; dating back to March 2008. I seriously just had to get away from Ireland for a few days as college was getting crazy, so when I heard the college German Society were planning a cheap trip away I jumped immediately on board (despite the fact I knew exactly zero people there). Now I&#8217;m not one to turn my nose up at a free meal &#8211; the holiday and the people were fantastic, but in hindsight we didn&#8217;t pick exceptionally well timed dates to travel &#8211; the weather was also great but the S-Bahn and bus systems were on strike! For the single week that we were there for! To rub salt into the wounds there was an S-Bahn station directly outside our hostel and the nearest U-Bahn was a nearly 30 minute walk away:( We hung out mostly near the Reichstage and passed the River Spree when getting from out hostel to the U-Bah station. I you go to Berlin make sure to check out the Hauptbahnhof (Main Train Station) &#8211; it&#8217;s like a mini town! Other places to check out are any KDV (huge shopping centres; someone correct me please if that abbreviation is wrong) and also the fanstatic backery Kamps. Now on to the photos &#8211; in no particular order&#8230;</p>
<div>On the Bank of the River Spree: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/bank_river_spree_berlin.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/bank_river_spree_berlin_thumb.jpg" alt="On the bank of the River Spree" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Boat on the River Spree: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/boat_river_spree.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/boat_river_spree_thumb.jpg" alt="Boat on the River Spree" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Brandenburg Gate at night: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/branden_burg_gate.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/branden_burg_gate_thumb.jpg" alt="Brandenburg Gate at night" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Boat on the River Spree: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/bridge_river_spree.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/bridge_river_spree_thumb.jpg" alt="Boat on the River Spree" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Cloudy Station: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/cloudy_station_berlin.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/cloudy_station_berlin_thumb.jpg" alt="Clouds over train station in Berlin" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
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<div>Street in Berlin: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/foreground_tree.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/foreground_tree_thumb.jpg" alt="Street in Berlin" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Graffiti Van: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/graffiti_van_berlin.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/graffiti_van_berlin_thumb.jpg" alt="Graffiti van in Berlin" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Headstones: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/headstones_berlin.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/headstones_berlin_thumb.jpg" alt="Headstones" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Reichstag: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/reichstag_berlin.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/reichstag_berlin_thumb.jpg" alt="The Reichstag" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
<div>Wooden Shop: Click for 1200&#215;900 Image</div>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/wood_shop.jpg"><img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/berlin/wood_shop_thumb.jpg" alt="Wooden Shop in Berlin" title="Photos From Berlin" /></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-london-tower-bridge/">Photos From London</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-paris/">Photos From Paris</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-corfu/">Photos From Corfu</a></p>
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		<title>22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 19:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HDR photography has become quite popular in recent years. Some people like the over the top trippy acid looking results one can get with Photomatix (although Photomatix isn&#8217;t limited to this), while others prefer the greater flexibility and reputed more realistic results that can be got from Photoshop. To help yourself, and myself, see how [...]<p></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HDR photography has become quite popular in recent years. Some people like the over the top trippy acid looking results one can get with Photomatix (although Photomatix isn&#8217;t limited to this), while others prefer the greater flexibility and reputed more realistic results that can be got from Photoshop. To help yourself, and myself, see how weblogs approach HDR I&#8217;ve put together a list of 22 tutorials / guides that explain the process, from the basic drag and drop approaches to the more complicated post-processes one can do following tonemapping. Some of these guides you may have seen before, others are less popular, but they all offer something new for everyone.<br />
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<strong>1. <a href="http://vanilladays.com/hdr-guide/">Vanilla Days</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/vanilla-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Vanilla Days" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This is a very popular HDR tutorial and compares the capabilities of Photoshop against Photomatix, concluding that Photomatix gives more control over the final image. It explains the essentials &#8211; auto-bracketing, merging and tone mapping. What makes this tutorial stand out from others is that is explains in good detail the tone mapping options available in Photomatix and provides results for different Photomatix settings. It also makes a lot of comparisons: using 1 RAW versus 3 RAWS, using jpgs instead of RAWS and direct comparisons between Photoshop and Photomatix. If you&#8217;re interested in creating HDRs this tutorials should definitely be in your bookmarks.<strong></strong><br />
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<strong>2. <a href="http://www.popphoto.com/howto/3038/how-to-create-high-dynamic-range-images.html">PopPhoto</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/popphoto-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From PopPhoto" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This post, by Jack Howard, is a whopping 11 pages long and explains pretty much everything you need to know about putting together HDRs. With such depth you expect to gleam some nuggets of information &#8211; I knew Photomatix had exposure blending capabilities but I didn&#8217;t realise how limited they actually were until I read this. Like before, Photomatix and Photoshop are compared and the strengths and weaknesses of both are listed; quite useful if you&#8217;re in two minds over which one to buy. At the end of this tutorial there is a useful tips page listing a methodology for producing the best HDRs possible.<strong></strong><br />
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<strong>3. <a href="http://backingwinds.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-to-create-professional-hdr-images.html">BackingWinds</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/backingwinds-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From BackingWinds" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Backing Winds is a blog maintained by Ryan McGinnis. He shows us how to create realistic looking HDRs using Photoshop &#8211; and definitely a guy whose against the &#8216;misuse&#8217; that often occurs when creating HDRs with Photomatix (see <a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/07/tone_mapped_surreal_effect_hdr_photomatix_photoshop/">a post of mine</a> for an example!). His post is a great resource for anyone interested in using Photoshop, simply because it&#8217;s such a huge package and is less accessible than Photomatix &#8211; it&#8217;s very easy to be overwhelmed by Photoshops 19000 options! Ryan also give some pointer on adding those crucial finishing touches using Histogram and curve adjustments &#8211; very useful!<br />
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<strong>4. <a href="http://www.gringod.com/2006/05/12/simple-guide-to-hdr/">GrindGod</a></strong><br />
GrindGod has a very well layout guide, starting from the top with telling us the equipment we need to get started before getting into more detail with the various options that Photomatix provides. One flaw with this guide however is that there are no images describing the steps or showing any HDR examples.<br />
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<strong>5. <a href="http://www.cameralabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1961">CameraLabs</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/cameralabs-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From CameraLabs" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />CameraLabs is a forum and this is simply a post on it, but it&#8217;s one heck of a post! The interesting thing about this post is that it was the guys first attempt, and it&#8217;s a very good one! There are pictures to go with every step also so it&#8217;s very easy to follow. The actual settings are shown so you have some benchmark settings that should work reasonably well to start with. This is a great tutorial for novices; however because it&#8217;s a posting on a forum there&#8217;s no guarantee that it will remain there long term &#8211; sometimes forum topics or posts can be removed either by the administration or the poster so if you find this guide useful it would be worthwhile saving it to your computer.<br />
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<strong>6. <a href="http://blog.23x.net/7/beginners-guide-to-hdr.html">The 23x Blog</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/blog23x-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From The 23x Blog" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Another good tutorial, it has nothing new over the five previous ones but hey, it&#8217;s good to check out it&#8217;s work if HDR is your passion! It does have some great results &#8211; I love the photo of the boats (right) that is shown on the site. Right now I dream of being able to make a photo this good! It gives some essential tips such as using the same aperture for each shot &#8211; a lot of other tutorials seem to overlook this point. The author also has a link to their Flickr page where you can see more images.<br />
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<strong>7. <a href="http://popsci.typepad.com/how20blog/2007/05/your_guide_to_c.html">Popsci</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/popsci-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Popsci" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This guide has over 1500 Diggs since May 2007 so has proven very popular. It first describes what exactly a HDR image is, before showing us the differently exposed thumbnails that will be used for the final image. It then describes the two main programs used to create the HDR: Photoshop and Photomatix before describing a little what tone mapping is and finally comparing the original photo to the final tone mapped image. It also comments on an open source alternative, Qtpfsgui, available on Windows, MAC OSX and Linux.<br />
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<strong>8. <a href="http://www.dcresource.com/forums/showthread.php?p=232450">Digital Camera Resource Page</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/dcresource-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From DCResource" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This is another guide posting on a forum. It highlights the problem many people will have if they are creating HDR images from multiple RAW files &#8211; aligning of the source files. According to the guide Photomatix cannot align wide angle shots very well and so it recommends using a program called PTGui. It will warp and align each picture to match up perfectly with each other &#8211; handy if you don&#8217;t have a tripod nearby! The guide is quite detailed &#8211; it provides the original under- metered and over-exposed images, it provides the settings used to create the HDR and explains how the settings in Photomatix affect the final results &#8211; a good tutorial to check out.<br />
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<strong>9. <a href="http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm">Cambridge In Colour</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/cambridgecolour-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Cambridge In Colour" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Cambridge In Colour explains why increasing the dynamic range of your photography is a good thing, when and where the technique should be applied as well as some of the trade off that you will encounter by taking the HDR approach. Many people (myself included) treat HDR-esque post-processing as a black box; images go into Photomatix, HDR comes out followed by tone mapping. Cambridge In Colour delves behind the scenes and explains very well the mechanisms of HDR &#8211; well worth the read if you want to sound all knowledgeable on the topic <img src='http://projectvisual.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" /> .<br />
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<strong>10. <a href="http://www.naturescapes.net/072006/rh0706_1.htm">NatureScapes</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/nature-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From NatureScapes" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This isn&#8217;t so much a traditional guide as it is a book on the topic! You can download a 49 page pdf of this guide; well worth having saved to disk. It covers every aspect you could ask for: What is HDR?, Setting Up Input Images, Processing a Single Frame HDR Image and Processing Multiple Frame HDR Images. The HTML version also provides a gallery of very good HDR images towards the end that&#8217;s worth checking out. By the way the book is free so you&#8217;ve really got no excuse not to check it out!<br />
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<strong>11. <a href="http://www.photoshopsupport.com/photoshop-cs3/hdr-high-dynamic-range/index.html">PhotoShop Support</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/photoshopsupport-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Photoshop Support" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This is an advanced tutorial in Photoshop &#8211; for those of use used to the black box approach of Photomatix, be prepared for a challenge! The main focus of this tutorial is overcoming the problem of combining images in which subjects in the images have moved between different exposures. This is achieved using smart objects. There&#8217;s quite a bit of manual work involved (oh No!) but it gives you more flexibility in the long run when you are post-processing your hard days shots.<br />
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<strong>12. <a href="http://duanestorey.com/hdr-tutorial/">Duane Storey</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/duanestorey-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Duane Storey" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />A quick tutorial with a great subject (see right) this guide uses Photomatix to create a great scene of the Vancouver skyline. Five images were used to make the final image and from what I can gather from the guide, the HDR was made using jpg images &#8211; very impressive!.<br />
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<strong>13. <a href="http://abduzeedo.com/how-create-hdr-photos-hdrphotomatix-tutorial">Abduzeedo</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/abduzeedo.jpg" alt="Image From Abduzeedo" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Abduzeedo uses a simple subject to get a very color rich final result. There are plenty of illustrations to go with this tutorial as well so there&#8217;s no way you&#8217;ll get lost while using it. It&#8217;s also the first guide I&#8217;ve seen where a HDR was made from a compact camera, showing that high end DSLR&#8217;s are not essential for getting good results.<br />
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<strong>14. <a href="http://thoughtsfrommylife.com/article-747-HDR_Photoshop_Tutorial_-_Creating_High_Dynamic_Range_Images">Thoughts From My Life</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/thoughtslife-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Thoughts From My Life" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Thoughts from my life uses an interesting subject and Photoshops Merge To HDR options. Any photos taken indoors that have windows in them usually suffer from overexposure of whatever can be seen through the window &#8211; Thoughts From My Life shows how HDR can overcome this problem.<br />
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<strong>15. <a href="http://www.webdesign.org/web/photoshop/photo-editing/hdr---high-dynamic-range-photography.15654.html">WebDesign Library</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/webdesign-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Web Design" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Here&#8217;s yet another site that uses Photoshop to create the HDR image from three differently exposed RAW pictures, followed by tone mapping in Photomatix to jazz up the final shot.<br />
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<p><strong>16. <a href="http://www.easyhdr.com/tutorial.php">Easy HDR</a></strong><br />
EasyHDR is a piece of software I just came across while writing this post. I haven&#8217;t used it so can&#8217;t say much but the website gives a very comprehensive guide to all its functions and the illustrations of<br />
HDRed photos look very impressive.<br />
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<strong>17. <a href="http://www.slagermanphoto.com/blog/2008/06/16/high-dynamic-range-hdr-tutorial">Slager Man Photo</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/slagermanphoto-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Slager Man Photo" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Slager Man Photo shows the difference between the histogram of a regular picture and that of a HDR, something I&#8217;ve not seen anywhere else. They also have a link to a small gallery at the bottom of the guide of some seriously wacky looking sunsets!<br />
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<strong>18. <a href="http://www.visualphotoguide.com/taking-high-dynamic-range-hdr-photos/">Visual Photo Guide</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/visualphotoguide-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Visual Photo Guide" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />This guide is quick and to the point &#8211; no padding. Some settings for your camera are recommended and how to set them on a Nikon D50 (the camera used for this tutorial) is explained. There&#8217;s also a link to a HDR video tutorial.<br />
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<strong>19. <a href="http://www.picturecorrect.com/photographytips/208/increase_high_dynamic_range.htm">Picture Correct</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/picturecorrect-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Picture Correct" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Picture Correct throws together a little personal story to go with their guide &#8211; a nice touch. It uses only two images &#8211; one overexposed and one underexposed to get really good results. Layer masks are used as one choice to blend the photos so if you enjoy working with them then this guide is for you.<br />
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<strong>20. <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/225652/">Grumpy Editors Guide To HDR</a></strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/grumpy-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From lwn.net" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Every site I&#8217;ve listed so far has assumed that you are either using a windows or a mac machine, but what if you use Linux instead? Well then this tutorial is for you: it mentions OpenEXR, PFScalibration and Qtpfsgui as Linux HDR solutions. Tone mapping is then achieved with Qpfstmo (I&#8217;ve no idea why such strange names are used, if they give results then that all that matters.)<br />
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<strong>21. <a href="http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/an-introduction-to-high-dynamic-range-imaging-hdr/">Digital Photography School</a> </strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/dps-thumb.jpg" alt="Image From Digital Photography School" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Digial Photography School is a very popular photography site and for many is the first choice of all photo related information on the internet. This guide is a guest post from <a href="http://www.pixelens.com/">Pixelens.com</a>. It talks about the essentials, and compares Photomatix to less known programs (to me at least) such as the Photoshop plugin ReDynaMix. It also compares the difference in using different number of exposures and how much of a difference there is between using a single RAW and multiple RAWS.<br />
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<strong>22. <a href="http://stuckincustoms.com/2006/06/06/548/">Stuck In Customs</a> </strong><br />
<img src="http://projectvisual.net/photos/hdr-guides/custom.jpg" alt="Image From Stuck In Customs" align="right" title="22 Tutorials For Creating High Dynamic Range Photographs Using Photoshop / Photomatix" />Stuck In Customs is a site by Tray Ratcliff, home to some of the most amazing HDR photographs I&#8217;ve ever seen. Seriously his work is world class and is the standard everyone should aspire to. From what I&#8217;ve seen he deals mostly with the surreal HDR look rather than the realistic look but you should check out his work to really see what can be done if you know how. It&#8217;s likely you&#8217;ve seen his work on plenty other sites &#8211; any list of &#8220;Amazing HDR Photographs&#8221; will likely contain more than one of his works.<br />
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<p>After looking through these guides I feel rather humbled by my own efforts. I guess the saying is true &#8211; the more you know about a topic the more you realise how little you know.</p>
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<p>Following yesterday from the <a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-paris-eiffel-towerphotos-paris-eiffel-tower/">pictures of Paris</a>, I&#8217;ve put together a few more; this time from London. I was visiting a friend for a couple of days and like always I was carrying my S9600 about. The trip wasn&#8217;t specifically photography oriented so the opportunities to get some decent shots were few and far between. We did get to the Tower Bridge and get into the Natural History Museum, but it sucked. My favorites from below is of the pigeon &#8211; it landed just as I was walking past. I only got to take the one picture below &#8211; the S9600 writes RAW files to the Compact Flash card very slowly and by the time the camera was ready to take another the pigeon had taken flight &#8211; damn! My other favorite is the second image &#8211; I like the contrasting feeling between the dark sky and calmness of the bench.  I think I&#8217;ll continue with this &#8220;Photos From&#8221; theme, next up: Germany!</p>
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<h3>Related Posts:</h3>
<p><a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-paris/">Photos From Paris</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-berlin/">Photos From Berlin</a><br />
<a href="http://projectvisual.net/2008/08/photos-from-corfu/">Photos From Corfu</a></p>
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