Fishermans Wharf in Victoria BC – HDR Gallery

[Toad Hollow Photography]

We had a splendiferous day here yesterday on the West Coast and I couldn’t help but find myself cruising with the top down on our Corvette to a familiar destination that almost always presents me with fantastic photo opportunities. Yesterday did not disappoint.

I have posted a new gallery of 16 HDR processed images of our iconic Fishermans Wharf.

Here are a couple of my favorite highlights from that gallery:

[tom dinning]

Is this HDR stuff over-rated or what? Give me the days when there was a decent bit of grain and some dark, featureless shadows. Or maybe a highlight or 2 burnt clear through the neg. You know, the black, featureless blot when you held the film up to the light for the first time. I know all about seeing in a greater DR than we can record but isn’t that what photography is all about? Let’s have some images we have to think about instead of looking like we are seeing it all from the bus window. Sorry, guys. I’m over realism. A bit of thinking man’s (oops – persons) photography is a good thing.

[Toad Hollow Photography]

My Dad had a darkroom in the basement of the house I grew up in, that’s where I got into photography. I have seen this blot you refer to, more than once.

I believe that’s where I learned to curse.

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