Downtown Calgary Shots

I went out for lunch on Thursday and took a few shots around downtown.

I used my 18-55 mm lens with a Hoya circular polarizer.

Curves video tutorial

I haven't looked at it yet, but hopefully this curves video tutorial will help me learn how to effectively use curves. Curves are similar to levels in that they help you control the contrast of your image, however they give you finer control over the results. I will return to offer a small review on this tutorial.

HDR - Redux

Well, here is another take with the unlocked version (i.e. no watermarks) . I can imagine taking a lot of shots with this method over the summer.

Sadly, my three shots were at 800 ISO so there was a lot of noise in the original. I processed some of it out but it would have been better to work with a "clean" original.