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My wife took this picture of a broken Hydrant during the recent heavy rains in Los Angeles.--
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There were a ton of fire hydrants at Pack Forest. This is one of about four I photographed on Monday.
This is my first attempt at HDR that I thought turned out half way decent - I never even saved previous efforts. I used the free version of Photomatix which leaves watermarks on the final image. I removed all three in Photoshop...can you guess where they were?
This fire hydrant isn't close to any buildings...I guess it's there for future construction.
This is my entry for Picture That week 3 theme "Grass is greener..."
Grass is greener... with HDR and lots of water from a fire hydrant.
Spatial information was collected using both the County's Trimble GPS units as well as Apple iPhones, which were loaned for the project by Esri.
A vacant lot behind a strip mall serves as a staging area for materials waiting to be used in a road widening project in front.
A fire hydrant across the street from a church parking lot in Calgary.
This is my first use of HDR (DRI) techniques to obtain hyperrealistic colors while preserving image details. Layer masks in Linux Gimp were used to select various elements for contrast and saturation enhancement. The masks were gradient filled and blurred to smoothly merge the layers for output.
Ideally HDR uses two or more exposures blended together. I shot multiple exposures at different EV settings with that in mind. Later white balancing revealed the shot overexposed for the sky had excellent dynamic range (contrast and color) for everything else. Since this scene has minimal sky, that one shot was sufficient to make this image. I only lose one cloud by not using a second exposure.
The original scene did not look like this. The early evening sky was overcast after raining and most colors were dull from this angle. But this is very close to the effect I imagined when shooting.
I haven't really looked closely at hydrants in a while. They might be my newest obsession. I saw one on Robert street being painted orange and yellow, there are sometimes strange fixtures attached to them, and they are full of little mechanical doodads. Very interesting overlooked objects indeed.