Library of Congress

[SMB2]

Probably one of the most impressive buildings in our nation's capitol is the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. It is open to the public but the actual reading room can only be viewed from above through plexiglass. Two days a year the reading room is open to the general public. President's day, last Monday is one of them.
Not sure why I am on the architecture binge. Time to get outdoors and photograph some animals!
All these were processed as hand held three shot HDRs in LR.
The shooting process is not hard. Because there is such low light inside and tripods are not allowed, I set my camera on BRACKET to take three shots. 1 stop over esxposed, 1 at proper exposure and 1 stop underexposed. I also set the camera to shoot at it's fastest continuous shutter release. So with hand holding all three images are taken in less than a second. The three images are then merged in LR as an HDR and processed as needed.


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[Second Hand Pat]

These are absolutely gorgeous Stan and work nicely as HDRs. I can image men in coats and wigs in the room in the fourth image.
Pat

[Discus-n00b]

I love your HDR Stan, it's natural and subtle enough to make the difference but not be the over contrasty stuff a lot of people do. Really nice looking building, I've never been in that one.

[brewmaster15]

Stan,
The pics came out great. Makes me want to play with hdr on my k3. The architecture there really is beautiful! I will have to visit there some day!

What lens were you using there?

Al

[SMB2]

Thanks Matt, Al. The shots were with an old (30 years) 20mm 2.8 lens and a 24-120mm lens. The tight clock shot was with a 70-200mm.
This is a Fisheye lens image from the gallery of the Reading Room through plexiglass that you can go to every day.

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[brewmaster15]

The shots were with an old (30 years) 20mm 2.8 lens and a 24-120mm lens

awesome!