From: riburr@shentel.net   
      
   ram wrote:   
   >   
   > Those are some beautiful photos...What kind of camera do you have..a   
   > Single-lens-reflex digital?   
   >   
   > That chantrelle pic makes me hungry!   
   >   
      
   Thanks.  Appreciate the compliment.  I'm using an Olympus C-4040 Zoom   
   digital camera.  It's a few years old now with a max resolution of 4.1   
   megapixels.  The built-in, fixed lens is f1.8, so it's pretty bright.   
   I'm feeling the need to get a new camera.  I keep pushing this one to   
   the max.  These pictures were taken in natural light, in deep forest, at   
   or after sunset.   
      
   I'm a real fan high dynamic range (hdr) photography, as I've explained   
   in this forum previously.  I use Photomatix software to combine at least   
   5 bracketed exposures of the same subject (mushroom), each exposure has   
   a different exposure value.  The software combines the different   
   exposures into a single image with a high dynamic range.  The software   
   then "tone maps" the hdr image into one that can be displayed on a   
   monitor or print to look normal.  The result is an image that better   
   captures all the lights and darks; coming closer to the dynamic range of   
   the human eye.  I also notice colors *tend* to be richer compared to   
   single-exposure digital photographs, but this reflects how I actually   
   see the subject with my own eyes.   
      
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