So these are shots from the railway yard just off of Holgate Blvd. at the edge of Sellwood (bordering on the Reed College area). Ticked off a pair of things on my wish list today. First, I've always eyed taking photos around this area, especially the roof of that building with all the graffiti on it. I've lived in the area for over two years now and I've never made it out there, it was time!
The next thing I did for these shots was shooting HDR (High dynamic range). This is a photography composite process of combining several images (some over exposed, others under exposed). Basically the end result is an image where your highlights aren't blown out and your shadows still retain some detail. A lot of landscape and architecture photographers use this technique.
In my opinion the HDR approach can look really tacky quite quickly. With cityscapes (and more so portraits) looking like over-saturated, over sharpened cartoons. Just do a Google search of "HDR portraits" and you'll see what I mean. However, when used in moderation, I'm pretty happy with the look I got. It was a bit dark today, so without making a composite, I would not have been able to expose properly to capture those rain clouds rolling in toward me.
This was kind of a first foray for me into the HDR thing. I may head into downtown sometime soon and see what I can get for city shots at night using this technique.
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