During a long weekend in Bruges I have used the opportunity for some experimentation in night photography, and of course using the HDR-technique. The results are shown in the categories `At Night` and `Cityscapes`, but let be comment some images in this blog.

My first example is real night photography. The scenery shown suffered from intense darkness (6.30 AM on an autumn day), so how to make a picture? Manual focus, ISO set to 500, and a shutter speed of 30 seconds. A little bit of noise reduction in adobe camera raw, and the result is a clear picture with the moving red clouds adding quite a spectacular effect.



Secondly, I notice that I am increasingly shooting five exposures for HDR. Quite data-consuming, but each shot is taken as a raw-file as well as in jpeg. The jpegs are used to process in PhotomatixPro to a HDR-file. If the result is not satisfying, which happens sometimes, than I still have the raw-files to work with. Low risk shooting (-.

Some HDR’s from Bruges:


HDR, five exposure shots


HDR, three exposures


HDR, five exposures to fully capture the rare sky


One way or the other, HDR didn’t work out well with this one. `Just raw`