Trying my hand at HDR

One area of digital photography I have always had a desire to try my hand at is "High Dynamic Range" or HDR photography. To see a true master of this technique visit the 'Stuck In Customs' link on my sidebar, and see what experience and "top end" equipment can do!
So the above images are my first attempts using this technique. It basically involves taking a -2, 0 and +2 exposure and combining the images using bits of software and then adjusting contrasts, to give a vivid and almost surreal photo. I am quite pleased with my first attempts and look forward to doing some more!

Woohoo, I got Kaiser Chief tickets!!!!

Excellent news! I have just managed to get hold of 2 tickets for my brother and I, to see the 'Kaiser Chiefs' at the Hull Ice Arena next Tuesday evening. The concert was actually sold out but a friend of mine who knows the people in the ticket office, contacted me to say there had been a few tickets become available, so I rang up and booked them! There is also good support from a good American band called 'We Are Scientists' which is a real bonus!

The image is just taken from the window of our house looking onto the road with a long shutter time.

Jetty Across The River

I took a short bike ride down the road to the riverfront, to see if I could find anything to photograph, I noticed in the distance this Jetty, so using the zoom, I took a couple of pics from a few different locations to see how well they would turn out. It was a bit windy but I managed a few nice shots, I just wish that lampost wasn't in the way on the first two!

Experimenting

Just a few crazy images I took purely by accident with the new camera, whilst experimenting with it's settings. I really liked em so I thought I would post them.

Toronto & Niagara Falls

Just a quicky!

My sisters home from Canada today, she's taken some lovely photo's and I'll put a few up here tomorrow!

Scunthorpe United 1 Hull City 2

A veiw of the south bank whilst crossing the Humber bridge.

A veiw of the north bank whilst crossing the Humber bridge (Hull in the distance)

'The Iron' at Glanford Park

'The Tigers' training at Glanford Park prior to 'kick off'

Im nicely warm again now after a bitterly cold and windy and rainy, miserable afternoon in Scunthorpe. I went to watch Hull City away and even though I was well wrapped up, I managed to leave my gloves on the coach and ended up losing the feeling in 2 fingers on each hand, and all my toes!

I say it was a miserable afternoon, but we won the game and that more then made up for my painful fingers and toes, even though it was not a particularly good game of football. Hull City are now into the good part of the league table.....the bit near the top! Still, we are only half way through the season, theres a long way to go yet!.....up the tigers!

I had my mobile with me and took some pictures whilst crossing the Humber bridge and when we were in the ground (Glanford Park) itself!