Here is another recent photo of a blooming tree in Hoboken near the Shannon on 1st Street. This is an HDR photo made to look photo realistic as opposed to artistic or painterly.
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Here is another recent photo of a blooming tree in Hoboken near the Shannon on 1st Street. This is an HDR photo made to look photo realistic as opposed to artistic or painterly.
This recent HDR photo shows the view looking down Sinatra Drive near Sinatra Park in Hoboken. It was such a lovely day when the photo was taken but cold.
Here is a view from Hoboken of the Empire State Building in New York City on a nice sunny day. Once again I used HDR technique to create a nice dynamic range but this time stayed away from making it look painterly on more like a high contrast photograph.
Using the Nikon D600 and HDR software Photomatix Pro I was able to create these two HDR renderings of the Hudson Reporter building in HDR. Remember that TheBoken.com was the originator of the use of HDR photos for local Hoboken websites. Recently another blog has come late to the party. Nothing wrong with a little competition but I intend to follow my original vision of capturing Hoboken in unique ways using these techniques to show Hoboken in a positive way as well as some of the urban grit thrown in from time to time. Below is a black and white version of the same photo to show readers the various HDR techniques that can be used.
Today’s Hoboken Photo of the day Features River Street facing southwards from 4th Street. I used the new camera for my website the Nikon D600 and used Photomatix Pro for the HDR effect. a second version in tone mapped black and white is below:
I took this photo last night and wanted to capture the clouds over Hoboken’s street-scape before retiring for the day in terms of picture taking. I really liked the cloud formation which prompted me to take this shot.
This photo uses a subject that I have featured before for the Photo of the Day series, namely the corner of 9th and Washington Street in Hoboken, NJ. This residential building is one of the finest condos in Hoboken and looks good on the outside as well on the inside. This photo was taken with TheBoken’s new camera, the Nikon D600 which has an amazing sensor and 24 megapixel resolution. Holy hard drives Batman! The HDR processing was done using Photomatix Pro and some retouching was done in the Gimp2, a freeware program that does almost all of what Photoshop does. Photomatix Pro has some nice features and produces some really cool HDR effects that if used properly can yield some nice results. One of the artifacts that comes with amateur HDR photos is the “halo effect” which is not present in this photo. Some of my early HDR photos had it and it took some time learning how to eliminate it. I like this version better than my previous work since it uses subtlety to display the advantages of HDR photography.
So with these new tools I hope to produce even more quality HDR shots than before from Hoboken and beyond. Next stop Central Park, New York City (when the weather gets nicer).
Today’s photo of the day was taken yesterday along Hoboken’s Waterfront walkway during winter storm Saturn. It wasn’t a huge storm in terms of its impact to Hoboken but it did produce a great opportunity to get some snow covered shots of Hoboken. The majority of my shots I took yesterday did not come out due to the wind blowing snow in front of my lens but this one captures the beauty of Mother Nature. I submitted this photo to the City of Hoboken and it is now placed on the City Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Hoboken) with over 700 likes and growing.
To see more photos from TheBoken.com that don’t necessarily make the website go to our Instagram account at http://instagram.com/theboken. Select photos are also available for print at our Instacanv.as gallery at the link http://instacanv.as/theboken and the prices are quite reasonable.
Today’s Photo of the Day is from 42nd Street in New York City using HDR.
Today’s photo of the day is of the Lackawanna Clock tower shot in HDR and processed using Photomatrix. It was taken yesterday before Joe Biden concluded his visit to the Train Terminal and PATH and greeted the crowds waiting to catch a glimpse of him.
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