Not a Bad Thing, Not Bad Indeed..

   There was this scene in the book I was reading last night:

   One character in the story was showing a painting to a gallery owner. 

   "What do you think?"

   "Well, I really don't know what to think, or even how to think about it?"

   Slowly the holder of the canvas turned it around so that it was not upside down.

   "Oh, now I see.."

   Seeing with new eyes, maybe a part of lifelong learning, sometimes fun, sometimes not so much so..

   I've been experimenting with a new photography technique, at least it is new to me, called HDR, an abbreviation for High Dynamic Range.

   Let me illustrate: 

   There is an old school in our neighborhood, Harrington School, a one-room school for colored children way back when. I wanted to photograph it, so the other morning we drove over there.

   The process is to take three shots of the same scene at different settings. So I took one with settings  on what my camera showed me as a correctly exposed shot. Then an immediate shot over exposed and another under exposed. They looked like this:

   The computer program takes these three shots and combines them into one (I don't know how, it just does).

   After some fiddling, the result looks like this.

   Some photo bugs like this process and some do not, but I thought it was kinda neat.

   So, this is a sequel to my post on "Old Dogs and New Tricks". I am trying to be somewhat creative in this area, and this is my current experiment. 

   Why go through all of this?

   Keep learning and doing new things…might keep us old people out of trouble..

   Who knows?

   Seeing with new eyes, trying to understand other things and other people, learning a new _____.

   Not a bad thing, not bad indeed...