First, let me announce that my Squam Swamp Alphabet poster is now on sale at Bookworks, for those of you who have asked. Heavy card stock. 12×18″ in size. UV coated.

But this past weekend, me and the boys hit the streets of town to look for more letters. Here’s a sample. Not sure what we’ll do with them just yet.

Perfect way to start a week off…

Having a long weekend with two holidays and beautiful weather in February was a pleasant surprise.

Here are two photos shown three ways: straight out of camera, fused exposures, HDR with tone mapping. The originals (SOOC) are the captures with the best average exposure for the scene. The fused exposure version was made taking three exposures of the same scene, and using Photomatix to merge the exposures, without any further adjustments. Then taking the merged result into Photoshop and using the curves tool to heighten the contrast. The third version is my standard HDR merge using Photomatix’s tonemapping. It’s always a surprise to see what results from the tonemapping. Often the image is amazing, but sometimes it’s a little over the top. I’m experimenting with the Exposure Fusion feature to see if I like the more subtle images you can make with it. What do you think?

SOOC

EF

HDR

SOOC

EF

HDR