the Art of Geography weblog

“Classic situation: You are in a church with a beautiful stain-glass window. You want to take a photo but you realize you have to make a choice: you either take a slow exposure shot of the window, meaning that the rest of the image will be way underexposed, or you try to take a photo of the whole thing, leaving the window very overexposed, meaning you will not see any of the beauty of the window. What do you do? Well, normally you have to make a choice, because the sad reality of either film or digital cameras is that they have a very limited dynamic range. That’s where Photomatix comes in and opens up a whole new world of photography for many of us who’ve tried in vein to get what is not possible otherwise. While this is a somewhat labor intensive process that includes a lot of post photography operations before you have your image, the end result is that you will get images that are simply not possible otherwise.”

http://www.applelinks.com/index.php/more/photomatix_review_of_hdr_image_creation_software/

“In short, I do like Stitcher. If you want to create multi-shot panoramas (e.g., more than eight images), the speed efficiency is reason enough to consider using Stitcher over Photoshop. …

Because of the limited new functionality in this version, I am only giving it a 3 “A” rating. If you are new to Stitcher, by all means, I strongly recommend the program. If you already have a copy, it is hard for me to tell you to spend your money unless the fish-eye lens and/or HDR features are sufficient enough.”

Where Does Color Come From?: “Color is all around us. We look at a tree and see green, or we look at a stop sign and see red. The sky looks blue and flowers come in all sorts of different colors. As photographers, most of us shoot in color, but have you ever stopped to consider just what the heck color actually is and where it comes from?….”

(Via Earthbound Light Photography Tips.)