Experiments in Photographic Art - Henley Beach Jetty

I took some quite ordinary photos at the beach yesterday and was about to throw them forever into the eternal pit of hard drive wilderness but then decided instead to play around a little first. Inspired by some of the photographic art of Stephen Kiernan, I took a very average JPG photo with blown out exposure and all sorts of other faults. The only thing going for it was that I liked the composition.

I then started plying around disrespectfully with the controls of my photo editing program. Colour saturation was the first casualty, set to maximum. I played around with the gamma on individual colour channels and finally did a little colour replacement. All very uncool things to do to a photograph but the result is quite interesting.



For some really stunning examples of HDR (High Dynamic Range) images, visit Stephen's Flickr Stream and let me know what you think.

Until the next post, take care out there and keep doing stuff ( if that's what you do! ) ...Robert