44/365: Let's Go to the Movies

The day got away from me. Drove out to the country to find some shots, but never got anything worth a hoot...

Next thing you know, it's getting dark and we are going to the movies. Grabbed the tripod and camera, and got about 3 shots off before a Mall Cop told me I couldn't take anymore. Maybe it's because I have a terrorist's beard...hides the kind face. This image is a single RAW shot that has been converted to a pseudo-HDR. When you shoot in RAW mode, the camera puts all the information it can into the file and keeps it there for you to manipulate later, at which point you have to discard some of the color and exposure information and turn the file into something that computers universally recognize, like a JPEG. But a RAW file has a lot of information in it, and so can be run thru the HDR software to create a fake HDR image, using the shadows and highlights from just the one file. It's not a real HDR image, but it kinda looks like one because of the tonemapping process.

-llg