Wanderer Photography

Picture in Picture @ Big Lake

Off-topic:

Washington state is pretty amazing! Everybody thinks about Seattle and the fact that it rains a lot, but I like it. I guess the rain in the other days (which is not that much, BTW) makes you appreciate all the more the sunny days.

About the trip:

I went with my friend Cipp (a.k.a. Ciprian or Tais) last weekend around Washington state, more specifically in Mt. Vernon and Skagit Valley. It is tulip season there and we’ve been wandering all morning and noon around them. In the afternoon, we decided to go to the top of a nearby mountain and take a couple of shots of the sunset with the tulips and the entire valley.  Unfortunately, the path to the peak was closed for cars and going 2 miles by foot would have meant missing the sunset. So, we decided to go to the Big Lake nearby and admire the nature there. Everything was so calm, it was full of houses lakeside and with the sun behind us shining upon the mountain across the lake, we decided to take some pictures… More on the story in another post.

About the picture:

3 pictures (-2,0,+2 EV): 1/320 , f/9, ISO 400 @ 34mm on my Tamron 17-50 f/2.8

Then, these 3 pictures were tonemapped using Photomatix 4 and then saved as a JPEG. I recently switched laptops and didn’t install Photoshop again, so this is pretty much straight out of Photomatix. Unfortunately, I didn’t save the tonemapping information.

Transforming the picture to HDR made it possible to get highlights from both the phone and the background picture, within normal exposure limits.

Issues:

Should get a better CPL filter or adjust the composition to eliminate the face from the phone.

/cd