Jason Hermann Photograpgy – Blog

Michele and I had the pleasure to attend the St. James Camera Club of Goshen, NY as a Guest speaker.

We did a presentation on HDR Photography and discussed the theory behind it with some examples.  Dick was nice enough to lend his awesome PC to do the PDF presentation on the projector   Thanks!  We then fallowed up the slideshow presentation with an actual live demonstration of how to take an HDR photograph. We all went from the activities room into the actual Church.  I then set up the tripod and took a bunch of exposure’s to capture all the dynamic range in the very dimly lit Church. I set the camera to manual mode, ISO 100, f/14, Average metering mode, 4 exposure’s.

Below are the 5 exposure’s I used as well as the final edited HDR Photograph

I also wanted to thank everybody from the Club for being so kind  and warm to us.  A special thanks to Renee for inviting us to speak

Fully edited HDR composite

Here are the 3 raw exposure’s I used for the HDR composite above:

f/14 @ 25 seconds

f/14 @ 6 seconds

f/14 @ 1.6 seconds

I was driving through Middletown, NY the other day on the way home and finally got a shot of this awesome Church I’ve been eyeballing for years.  There was no cars parked in front so it was a perfect opportunity to grab a few photos

The first image is actually a vertical panoramic image comprised of 2 frames.  I was using the Canon 5D mark II along with the Canon 24-105 f/4L IS.  I was at 24mm f/13 for the first image and couldn’t fit the whole church in there and the wide angle lens was n the car.  Do to the freezing cold I opted for a Pano instead.  It turned out pretty good I think

The second image is for documentary purposes, but I like how the depth of feild turned out.  It was shot at 84mm, f/4, 1/2500sec.

Here is 2 more from that Church in NYC. I searched Google maps and tried to figure out what church it is, but it just wasn’t happening

Jay

I went down to NYC the other day with my parents. While we were down there I managed to grab a shot of this absolutly amazing church!

For you BW fans

– Jay