This one comes from the archives. A trip to Liverpool last year with +Diane Seddon LRPS while we were walking along the waterfront we spotted this decaying wooden structure.
Due to having to climb half way up a wall to photograph it there is no way a conventional HDR would have been possible… no where to put the tripod. So this became an ideal candidate for Pseudo HDR. One image processed twice, once for the hightlights, once for the shadows. The resulting images then combined as an HDR.
The full gallery from the trip to Liverpool can be found here:
http://photos.imb.biz/travel/uk/liverpool
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Nice find! I've been able to do some HDR shots without a tripod, and for those shots where I use a single image I use SNS-HDR, as Photomatix seems to make everything look fairly awful. One day, I promise I will buy Lightroom or something; Paintshop Pro X4 is OK, but not quite up to the job I reckon!
+Hugh Jones Thanks for the comment. On this occasion HDR without a tripod was a non-starter. Shooting one handed while straining to see through railings and over a wall with the best will in the world the multiple images were never going to line up!
Sounds a bit of a nightmare, but it looks like what you got worked out just fine! :)
There is one more pseudo HDR possible in such situations. Sony's new compact cameras have auto HDR where camera takes three quick snaps in succession and processes it. You dont need a tripod
Very nice shot, looks like a splinter waiting to happen.
Ah – I remember you scaling the heights to get this shot. I entered a landscape version of this one – with the Mersey Ferry in the background to a competition, where it was truly slated by the judge…. he couldn't understand why I felt the need to photograph such dereliction. C'est la vie – as they say… I like it.