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Windy Summer
Windy, cold, damp and dreary! The evening I shot this photo offered a rare bit of sunshine but I fumbled with numb fingers and impending hypothermia as I worked the scene. The frequent rainfall and low temperatures have produced a profuse, persistent display of wildflowers but the incessant wind has limited my ability to photograph them as they are in constant motion. For this image, I wanted to work with the conditions and try to capture a sense of the wind by intentionally letting the flowers and grasses and trees blur, so I used a neutral density filter to extend exposures to as long as 1.5 seconds. I made 5 exposures at about 1-stop intervals to cover the brightness range from the brilliant sky surrounding the sun to darker foreground elements. In Photoshop, I merged these into a 32-bit HDR (high dynamic range) composite and then remapped the tones to compress the range for the final 8-bit JPEG that I can show here.
Pentax K10D, Tamron AF 18-250mm f/3.5-6.3 DiII LD IF Macro @18mm, f/13, Hoya Pro 1 ND8 filter
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