An Overcast Chinatown
On Friday morning, before DCist Exposed, my department from work coordinated a visit to the Spy Museum. I decided to head down a little early so I would have some time to photography Chinatown since it was one part of the city I had never really shot before. The sky was overcast and the forecast was calling for rain so I couldn’t resist doing some HDR shots. Low hanging clouds and dark skies are perfect for dramatic high dynamic range photos. Below are a few of my favorites from the day…
Bear with me since I know a few of them are a little over-processed but I’m still feeling my way around Photoshop and I wanted to see what I could do…
Click on each image for a larger version…
There are two more of this set on Flickr.
March 9th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Just a bit over pop there Shawn - Its a big learning curve - you know you missed shooting with the Photoshop guys yesterday - are these true HDR 3 - 7 bracketed or 1 raw shot conversion. I am finding that ReDynamix does a better job with single file conversions, look at the alley I did in the photowalk set, that was one shot, actually all the fake HDR in my set are redynamix, no tripod. Have a good week.
March 9th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
Yeah… When I was doing it I actually was going for a little over-the-top surreal look. The place is so colorful I figured Why Not?
I wish I could have made it on Saturday… I don’t know if you saw my comment in the Flickr thread but my parents came into town and surprised me Friday night for the DCist show, so on Saturday I hung out with them…. I’ll definitely be making the next one!
Thanks!
March 9th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Interesting post processing…
I like it very much
March 10th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Thanks zzkang!