DisneyWorld

Another trip to Epcot while the weather is dry! Good cloud views … We also, for the first time, crossed World Showcase Lagoon on the launch:

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SONY DSC

Another feature of my new Sony A55V camera is “HDR”, High Dynamic Range. The concept of this technique is to photograph the same scene at a number of different exposure levels, then blend them to get a picture with more range/detail than any one photo – bringing detail in to the shadow areas, without washing out all the bright areas.

Here is a single photo taken without HDR and with no editing; you can see that there’s not much detail in the sky, or in the shadows of the building:

Here is what the Sony took, with it’s HDR function active – it doesn’t look like the Sony does a very good job, and you can see “ghosts” of the moving people …

So finally, here is the first photo manually edited in Aperture; I brought up the shadows, then brushed in some darkening only of the sky – I prefer this version, without the ghosts!