big wheel in swansea bay

Posted by cromlechi (Swansea, United Kingdom) on 25 December 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

A HDR picture of the big wheel in Swansea's winter wonderland. Merry Xmas to everyone on the site.

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Comments (6)

Barbara from Florida, United States

Merry Christmas! Excellent shot of lights.

25 Dec 2007 5:47am

Kami from Tehran, Iran

Merry Christmas to you all in Swansea :)

25 Dec 2007 7:22am

@Kami: Good wishes to everyone in Tehran. I'd love to visit Iran one day, so much history and beautiful landscapes.

Shaahin from Tehran, Iran

I like it!!
btw, have u tried longer exposure?? (about 15 sec with lower ISO)

25 Dec 2007 8:40am

@Shaahin: Hi Shaahin

I haven't tried that. I've only been taking photography seriously since the summer when I got my Canon. I'm just starting to get used to the different settings. Thanks for the tip, I will give it a go. At the moment I've been playing around a lot with HDR but like trying as many different techniques as I can.

juant3 from Bremen, Germany

Very nice shot! I do try every once in a while the HDR technique too! And some of the results are magnificent. Although, I always have a problem with moving objects! How were you able to capture this?
-- Merry Christmas to you and Happy New Year!

25 Dec 2007 1:07pm

@juant3: Hi there,

I have tried two techniques so far and still experimenting. On this one I took three exposures with bracketed exposure mode , converted them to jpg and then blended them in Photomatix. Photomatix seems to deal with moving objects quite well. This wheel was slow moving, so that helped.

Recently, I have been trying to work with the raw image without conversion. I try to make sure all the raw files I want to blend have the same colour temperature and then I open them in photoshop HDR tool, adjust and play around until it looks ok.

Merry Xmas and a happy new year to you too. .

Adam