Breaking the law

As I wrote in a post a couple of days ago, I recently bought myself a Canon 450D, and have been experimenting with snapping HDR pictures.

For those of you that don’t know what HDR is: HDR stands for “High Dynamic Range”, and in plain English, it is simply put a picture with more color and luminance than can fit into a normal picture (like jpeg). This is easily seen in many pictures where details in the shadow simply becomes black, and the clouds and sky becomes all white. That is because the range for the color values in the image couldn’t fir the higher or lower range that the shadows and sky had. To overcome this, there is on some cameras a special progra, that allowes you to snap three or more pictures in a row and with different exposure times. Then by using a specialized software on a computer, the pictures can be merged together and the information from the different exposures can be calculated into one single image containing a much larger range than any of the single images.

So, I have been playing around with HDR pictures, and tonight I was out trying to photograph the nearby trainyard. I thought it would be interesting to see how a dark trainyard lit by electric light would be in HDR.

So after the sun had set, I went down to the trainyard. And I got there, mounted the camera on the tripod… Took two pictures… And then the guards arrived…

Apparently, I was trespassing… Like I didn’t know… And the guards politely told me, that they had the rights to arrest me, but that they thought that it would be easier if I just left instead.

So I left, and was happy enough that I got two pictures before the guards discovered me. (I can always go back another day)

Here are the two images I snapped:

I think I will start a Flickr account soon, where I can put my fullsize images…