News and Views from Dave Wilson

Buggy Seat

by on Jan.30, 2009, under Photography


Buggy Seat, originally uploaded by David A G Wilson.

This image is for Jerry Hayes, an outstanding photographer and all-round nice guy who was in the group that went out to Johnson City to spend the day at the LBJ Ranch a couple of weeks ago. Jerry takes probably the crispest HDR images I’ve ever seen (like this one, this one or my favourite, for example).

During our period of car hopping (jump in, drive 20 yards, see something cool, grab equipment, jump out, shoot a couple of dozen frames, repeat ad nauseam), we found this rather interesting old horse-drawn buggy so we all started filling our memory cards. Jerry was playing with a rather nice 12mm lens so was taking a lot of wide-open-vista shots but I was shooting more detail images and decided that I should take an HDR of the buggy’s leather seat. I’m fairly sure he reckoned it was a waste of time but here’s the result. I’ll admit that it’s not the best photo I’ve ever taken but I’m rather happy with it. The leather texture is very interesting and, after darkening and desaturating the edges, the overall effect works quite well.

This is, of course, merely a feeble attempt to pretend that my shots turned out anything like as well as Jerry’s. For example,here, here and here. His extremely different take on the same subject can be seen here.

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