Fun With Photos

Ok, so we're killing time before we go home now. I've been having some fun experimenting with high dynamic range photography. Some of the results are interesting:



...They look less like photos and more like drawings...



Here's Christchurch Art Gallery:



The software blends exposures and evens out the detail in the image, so you get more detail in both the highlights and the shadows.



This is more like the way we perceive images ourselves, and is the way a painter would work. But as we are so used to seeing photos these days, these images look unreal to us.

Let me know what you think!