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Köpmangatan

I was off work today, so I went out at dusk to grab some more HDR photos. I had a few ideas of what to try. They've put up the Christmas lights all over town, so I thought I would see how they looked tonemapped.

I went into town at about two pm, thinking I would be there just before they switch the lights on. (It starts going dark at around 2.30.) It turned out I was a bit early and stood freezing for almost an hour.

While I was waiting I took some shots when the sun went down. The sky was rather dull so I didn't think they would be very interesting. But I'd say they turned out at least as nice as the shots I got with the Christmas lights later on.

When my toes were about to fall off and I couldn't cope with waiting any longer, I went to the paper where I work to get my core temperature back up to normal.

Just as I was about to head off again, they switched the lights on. So I set up my tripod in the middle of the cycle path (why are the best places for tripods always in someone's way?) and got a shot of Nybrogatan.

I also got a few of the main shopping street, Kungsgatan.

I finished off back at Köpmangatan where I started. I tried making them as saturated as the first ones, but that didn't really look good. So I went with fairly muted colours instead.

Labels: hdr, photography, photomatix

Posted by David Naylor at 23:12