Robert's Ramblings

Just how much can you see staring into a bright light globe? Not much and perhaps even less for a while after you look away as your eyes recover. So this image is an experiment in HDR to try and look into the light to see everything.

This image is a 375W heat lamp which produces in addition to heat a lot of useful light and a prime candidate for a HDR composite image. I could have taken one image with the light turned off but the lighting would have been very different and even the filament would be different as it changes its dimension with the heat of operating. My final three images I chose are three stops apart. The difference between extremes is 64 times!

The end result, well you decide after looking into the light!


Photo: Robert Rath, '366 Days of 2012, Day 148 - The Heat is On'. 1/8000s + 1/1000s + 1/125s at f/22 ISO 50 200mm hdr