More from the G9

a couple more shots from the Canon G9...... from Hat Creek.....

 

 

Canon G9.... Hat Creek

I took my Canon G9 "point and shoot" camera along this year to Hat Creek and took about 300 photos with it. My main camera was a Canon Xti DSLR (digital single lens reflex) with an APS sized sensor and it did fine as usual.  But I wanted to try the smaller G9 to see how it handled some of the tougher lighting situations... It did a surprisingly good job... Here is one I like....

 

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ET...... ?

They're looking for ET at Hat Creek too.... I didn't see him around anywhere though.....

 

 

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 A wild fire rolled through The Hat Creek area last month... I spent quite a bit of time in the burn area....

I ended up with over 1900 photos from this year's trip  ... Many are multiple exposures of the same scene...

 

 

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9-10-09  ... 7:15 AM

Hat Creek

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HDR

                                

In 2007 I went up to the Hat Creek area, like I do every year, to play golf and take pictures. A lot of pictures. I took well over 700 pictures that year and ended up with 599 that I kept. That's a lot of keepers and, in glancing at them the other night, I was struck by the high number of shots I kept on the computer. Usually I will delete almost half of any group of shots I take right off the bat ...so I went through them to see what was going on....

Evidently I was thinking of HDR photography during this trip.

HDR stands for high dynamic range. HDR photography entails making a series of photos with different exposures and combining them in software to create an image that displays all or most of the highlights and shadows of a given scene. The finished picture has detail in the shadow areas and in the brightest areas of the photo, something a camera can't do in one exposure given the limited dynamic range of today's digital cameras. Usually you take 3 to 6 pictures of a given scene changing the exposure for each one using a tripod to make sure the camera doesn't move between shots.

I had taken 3 to sometimes 7 shots of a bunch of individual scenes planning to combine them in Photoshop to create HDR images. I had done a few but I got distracted and there are about 30 to 35 groups of shots that have yet to be combined..... That's why I ended up with so many images.

Here is one I combined.  It has problems for sure .. the sky is overexposed and some of the dark areas are blocked up ... HDR also gives a photo an odd feel - there are halos around some areas but over all it's not too bad.  Any way it is the best I could do with Photoshop ... There are third party programs that do the same thing, maybe a little better...I might try one at some point. We'll see...

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while we're talking about Hat Creek ...another shot from last year...

Gone to Hat Creek

I will be away to Hat Creek in Northern Cal. for a few days.  We go up every year on Labor day and stay a week or so ... I will continue to post every day so check back  ...

Golf, photography, food and drink for 5 days ......ahhh yes ........   An image from last years trip ...

Hat Creek