Trying something new....

High Dynamic Range Digital Photography

Taking three shots in quick succession and blending them to capture the nuances of light and color.The luminous color comes from exposure bracketing.... which is done by taking two or more different exposures of the same image and blending them to create one final image with a more dynamic color range (referred to technically as High Dynamic Range - HDR). This is a definition of HDR.

I used Dynamic-Photo HDR Program to work on this shot.
In this program you can use one photo and get a fake HDR or you can do it the I described above but I'm still learning to do that. It's also a free program. There are other programs out there that work better I'm sure but they can be pricey.
I don't know if this is something I would do all the time but it was fun to play around with this program.

Without HDR:





With HDR:

Oh, Happy Day....

I got my microwave back....

Creature Comforts

Okay, the morning of Gustau my microwave stopped heating. I thought at the time, no hurry about getting it to Sears to be worked on I don't use it that much. Well, famous last words.....I use it more than I thought.

~Reheating my coffee forty times a day
~Cooking my breakfast (oatmeal)
~Heating Hannah's lunch
~Boiling water for tea
~Popcorn button (Mike"s favorite)
~Rice button
~Rice button
~DiGiorno Pizza (Christopher's favorite)
~Defrosting meat when you forgot to take it out that morning

Okay, so I think you get the picture! I'll be glad to get my microwave back.