Wow, thanks for all the kind words and I offer you all a hearty "You're Welcome!" What a great group of people we are and what a great turnout! Thanks to everyone for taking part, helping me cover the rent, contributing content, for bringing tasty food and generally conducting yourselves in a legal manner for a change! I can't believe how fast the 4.5 hours went. I could have hung out for another 4 hours without a second thought. I only had enough time to talk to each of you briefly and wish there was more time to to get to know you, swap stories and talk about stuff other than exploring. Thank you Siper for providing critical information that had been sorely missing from my understanding of all things digital photography. Thanks for showing us all how easy it is to move between Lightroom and PS and making it seem like something I can do myself. Observation: This is not completely true, but I think the multi-exposure stacking HDR method is best applied in scenes where everything is holding still. By this I mean little cloud movement. I found that stacking exposures in outdoor, long exposure, night photography situations (which is 75% of what I'm shooting in the last couple of years), cloud movement across multiple short to long exposures, when stacked, gives me near white sky syndrome, since all the clouds blend together to cover the entire sky. I'm not sure how to handle this situation in combination with high contrast night lighting situations (think bridges). I feel like I'm going to be stuck with trying to mask the sky with a complicated foreground... Seedy: I meant to say thanks for bringing the prints, and that I really liked the orangey palm tree shot. Was that shot on film? I'll follow-up in PM/email with many of you on topics discussed, and tentative plans made, sites etc. -free [last edit 12/10/2013 7:43 AM by freeside - edited 1 times]
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