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Joplin Tornado Pic

This is a test to see if I can blog from my mobile phone!

Took a trip to the lake...

I went out on the lake today for a few minutes on a paddle boat.  Nothing too spectacular to photograph except an anchored sailboat.

A little more HDR photography...

This is not my idea of a "Smart Car"  It looks more like a toy car!

The are too many good photos to be taken on the Mizzou campus.

Looking down Broadway, Columbia, MO...

A trip through downtown Columbia at night...

HDR photos in downtown Columbia MO...

The Tiger Hotel
9:00pm Shot 18mm f 6.3
at .5 to 8 seconds.

D&M Sound Shot at 8:45pm  45mm @ f 6.3, 3 to 1/25

Lakota Coffee - 9:45pm 38mm @ f 6.3, 2.5 to 1/6

One "gentleman" came across the street and said he didn't want to be photographed.  I told him he shouldn't sit in the street. 

Tough luck bud.  :)

A trip around the University of Missouri - Columbia Campus in the early evening...

Mizzou has a ton of things to photograph...

This is Memorial Union.  This pic was taken at 4:55pm on a cloudy day.  Shot at 18mm f 7.1 @ 1/30 to 1/160

This is a shot of Jesse Hall from in front of Ellis Library... also taken about 5pm on a cloudy day.  HDR really pulls the dark effects out of the sky unless it is masked off in photoshop.  Dreary, but cool!  5:10pm Shot at 26mm f 7.1 @ 1/125 to 1/4000 

Memorial Union (West Side) Shot 18mm f 7.1, @ speeds of 1/160 to 1/2500  4:45pm

Memorial Union Shot at 5:20pm. 50mm,  f 22 @1/5 to 1/200

Memorial Union 4:50pm  Shot at 18mm f 7.1 @ 1/320 to 1/3200

Sculpture on Lowry Mall, "Yielding Spire"
Shot at 5:25pm 18mm  f 10 @ 1/15 to 1/160

My new thing is HDR photography...

Here is wikipedia's explanation...  booooring!

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allow a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques or photographic prints. This wider dynamic range allows HDR images to more accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to faint starlight.

The two main sources of HDR imagery are computer renderings and merging of multiple photographs, which in turn are known as low dynamic range or LDR images.  Tone mapping techniques, which reduce overall contrast to facilitate display of HDR images on devices with lower dynamic range, can be applied to produce images with preserved or exaggerated local contrast for artistic effect.

Trying this out!

Well, I've decided to post some of my photos on a blog...  Let me know what you think!