The Trigger Happy SQ

After two months of not updating this photoblog, I have some sad news.

I lost my baby last May 16. As mentioned in a previous post in my main blog, I was pregnant with my second baby.

Unfortunately for me and my family, I had a miscarriage after a 4 day stay in the hospital because of bleeding. It was disappointing, sad and depressing… I can’t find all the words to explain how sad I feel.

I’ve always wanted to have another child. My first daughter is six years old and I guess it’s about time to have another child.

We had plans for the baby… Plans that are now useless. I feel so sad…

This picture represents the longing I have for another baby. I don’t know… It kind of reminds me of how I cuddle up with my first daughter… This was taken in Baguio Orchidarium during my last visit there.

I’ve always wanted to try HDR ever since my brother introduced me to the world of Photomatix. I read about how to do it and thought I’d give it a try during our latest visit to Ilocos Sur.

These two pictures were taken near Playa De Oro Resort, Mindoro, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur during sunset.

High Dynamic Range Imaging is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

Well OK, that’s how Wikipedia explains it to us hehehe.

So on with the pictures…

This first shot is composed of three pictures merged together using Photomatix. My mistake was, I had my ISO at 1600 I think, meaning a lot of noise. So I had to remove the noise first before merging the three images. I used the Auto Bracketing function of my camera to come up with three pictures with different exposures.

This other shot was also made using three images with different exposures.

If you ask me, I prefer the first one because of the colors. But in flickr, they seemed to like this better. It was also 2nd place in Pinoy Kodakeros’ Outstanding PinoyKodakero Award last month, January.

I hope you guys try HDR out. It’s rewarding and you can create unique images :) Good luck!

This was taken with my Canon S3is during a visit to the Butterfly Garden of Camp John Hay. I recently sold my camera to fund a purchase of a lens. The camera has been with me since last year and it has been a very good teacher and companion. I miss it dearly…