HDR final shots

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I picked my porch because it's somewhere that I go and sit a lot, and I have some very good memories on that porch swing. Also, it happened to have great repeating lines.

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I really like how this looked compositionally, and how I edited it. This is the garden that my mom has next to our house, and I helped plant it and we eat vegetables from it every year.

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This is a path in the woods behind my house where berries will grow every summer, and we pick them and eat them. I picked it because it's a place I know really well, and was a big part of my childhood growing up.

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This is an old fort in the woods that I helped build and paint when I was a kid, and I spent a lot of time there with my friends having advntures.

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This is a picture of my room and bed which is where I spend most of my time now. It's very messy and cluttered which really does describe me, and the decorations on and around the window are all things that I have an attachment to. I am very possessive of my bed, so I thought it had to be included.

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This is the view from my back patio, and I picked it because it overlooks a whole little valley, and I will come out here and just sit some nights and look at it because it's so beautiful. Here as well I have a lot of memories with friends and family that I definitely won't forget.



What are your thoughts on HDR & the visuals they produce.

At first, I really didn't like them because I thought that they looked to artificial, and honestly just kind of ugly, but as I looked at more and more of them that began to change. It still isn't my favorite type of photography, but I definitely have more of an appreciation for it now. I like that it allows you to see details in the highlights and shadows of a picture, and I think I will definitely use it in the future, especially for landscapes.

Do your images tell a story or are they just a collection of images? How has your relationship to making images changed in thinking about what you photograph? How did light affect/change your photograph?

My images do not tell a story, they are just a collection of images, of places that I know well and connect with. I didn't know about HDR before this assignment, so I didn't know that there was a better way, other than photoshop, to capture details in highlights, lowlights, and mid-tones all in the same picture, and that is something that I will definitely think about when making an image now, and I will think about composing my photographs to complement that information. I found that shooting in the evening with a warmer, softer light created a better photography for HDR, but other than that, the process really allows you to shoot in most kinds of light. Softer light just looks better in my opinion.