{"id":1150,"date":"2012-03-16T20:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2012-03-16T20:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T00:43:55","slug":"where-the-hdr-fascination-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/?p=1150","title":{"rendered":"Where the HDR fascination started&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-hdr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1151\" title=\"1-hdr2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-hdr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-hdr2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-hdr2-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in Ghent, Norfolk, VA, and had shot a good number of photos of the Naro Theater and &#8230; back in those days, the only option I knew of was the somewhat primitive Photoshop option.<\/p>\n<p>A different look (not necessarily better, but different) is now available by clicking three buttons.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6203a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1152\" title=\"1-IMG_6203a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6203a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6203a.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6203a-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lower is garish, while the top appears lost in a fog. The difference is that the top photo took (when I rendered it, back in 2007) about 15 minutes of heavy computing power. The lower one took about 8 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, however, just a proper exposure for neon can make all the difference. This one has no HDR effects applied at all, and it&#8217;s the one I prefer most:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6214.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1153\" title=\"1-IMG_6214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6214.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/1-IMG_6214-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Silver Blue&#8230;. who tries to capture what lights up his world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Ghent, Norfolk, VA, and had shot a good number of photos of the Naro Theater and &#8230; back in those days, the only option I knew of was the somewhat primitive Photoshop option. A different look (not necessarily better, but different) is now available by clicking three buttons. The lower is garish, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[211,288,456,210,285,408,152,206,455,454],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-211","tag-canon","tag-digital-rebel-xti","tag-ghent","tag-hdr","tag-naro","tag-neon","tag-norfolk","tag-theater","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyesofsilverblue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}