Travels with Rhody » New England http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress The personal blog of Wade Roush Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:52:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Giving My Leaf-Peeping Shots the Animoto Treatment http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/2009/10/24/giving-my-leaf-peeping-shots-the-animoto-treatment/ http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/2009/10/24/giving-my-leaf-peeping-shots-the-animoto-treatment/#comments Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:18:53 +0000 admin http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/?p=170 I finished converting all of the bracketed photos from my Columbus Day Weekend leaf-peeping trip with my parents into high-dynamic-range (HDR) fusion images. You can view the whole lot in this Flickr photoset. Now I’m experimenting with different ways of presenting the photos. Animoto, a cool New York-based startup, offers an interesting tool for making musical animated slide shows, so I dumped a bunch of the HDR photos into their video-maker tonight. Here’s what it came up with:

Let me know what you think in the comment section.

]]> http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/2009/10/24/giving-my-leaf-peeping-shots-the-animoto-treatment/feed/ 0 New England, The HDR Edition http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/2009/10/15/new-england-the-hdr-edition/ http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/2009/10/15/new-england-the-hdr-edition/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:04:52 +0000 admin http://www.travelswithrhody.net/wordpress/?p=125 I spent the Columbus Day weekend traveling through Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine with my parents. It was a classic leaf-peeping tour, proceeding counterclockwise from Boston to Killington, VT, to St. Johnsbury, VT, to Bethel, ME, via lots of back roads and scenic byways. The weather was overcast and drizzly on Friday and part of Saturday, but the clouds started to break up Saturday afternoon, and Sunday and Monday were quite nice.

I was not upset about the general cloudiness, because I wanted to do some more high dynamic range (HDR) photography during the trip, and in my (limited) experience, clouds actually make HDR photos far more dramatic.

I took hundreds of shots and so far I’ve processed just over a dozen of them as tonemapped HDR images. I’m assembling the whole set of HDR photos over at Flickr, but below are a few of the more interesting ones.

Hills and clouds

Cemetery

Cemetery

Pond

Cemetery and clouds

Cemetery

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