So I was inspired to try some HDR's the other day by an old friend of mine, Roy so I did a bunch of bracketing when took my long drive this weekend. The camera moved for so many of them, I am going to have to start using a better tripod, mine isnt the most stable. I had been trying to use the Photoshop Merge To HDR function, but never really liked what I got from that, so tonight I started just taking two or three of the shots and layering them manually and just experimenting on which blend modes worked best for each image, and I think it yielded some good results...
Some of these got to be much more abstract than I had originally intended with the process, but I just wanted to see what the process yielded for several different kinds of shot. I found it gave me a greater amount of color range control, as well as uielding some very interesting histograms. I was talking today about having a conceptual photography show of just latent images, and its basically undeveloped prints in black photo bags.
Reminds me of how Stephen Shore started showing his prints in 4x6 glossies in postcard racks in Amarillo, by the side of the Highway. He knew what he was doing. Might be interesting to have a show of just histograms. Just ask hundredrs of people to submit histograms, make it into a book. Weird. The show would have to be huge prints, entire walls, a billboard, and then really small, like contact prints of 35mm shots of Histograms on screens.
Ive been getting back into thinking about Noumena again. Helped a student make a series on Noumena afer school today. Really gets you back in it. Dreams.
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