May 3, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
The picture may not seem very special, and it's remarkably similar to previous pictures I've posted about my living room, but there's still a bit of a twist to it. Some years ago it suddenly became fashionable to create HDR (High Dynamic Range) pictures, that were basically a merger of several pictures, taken from the same standpoint but with different exposures. By merging them together you create a surreal scene where the contrast between different parts of the picture becomes much less than usual.
Take the above picture. It was shot indoors and the interior of the flat is properly visible: the exposure was correct for the interior. Yet, typically with such a setting, anything outside would become completely over exposed, and therefore just white. From the fact that in the above picture the buildings outside are visible, you can see that I worked on it a bit. I wanted to try an HDR picture myself, but not with using some of the free applications available on the net but just Photoshop Elements. It didn't quite work, which is best seen from the dark and unnatural window frames. Ah well, I will have to give this another shot when I am willing to spend more time one this. Speaking of pictures, with the availability of a new picture format on Flickr (800 pixels wide or high) I've switched to this format on this blog as well, making the pictures bigger... but maybe a bit too big on a screen that is only 1024 pixels wide. I'll have to see if I like it... Maybe I'll switch back to 640 pixels pictures.
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