Ingalls Hotel
Mar, 2016Views
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michelleroose
April 01, 2016
What an excellent photo great capture. Welcome to Viewbug hope you enjoy the sight as much as I do .
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Michelle
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Location
The photo was taken in Ingalls, a ghost town in Oklahoma. It seemed to be out in the middle of nowhere and I was unsure if we would find the little town or not.Time
I shot several pictures of the same frame at different exposures around 5 in the afternoon. I was traveling around that day to take some HDR photos for an independent study.Lighting
The weather helped with this HDR image. There were a lot of clouds and it was sprinkling a little when I shot this image. I think the clouds helped give the photo a unique weathered look and enhanced the old buildings.Equipment
This was shot on a Canon Rebel SL1, using an 18-55 mm lens. No other equipment was used.Inspiration
I had been searching online for ghost towns and other places in Oklahoma that had some old buildings I could photograph for the HDR part of my independent study. I found a few different places in central Oklahoma that I could drive to and photograph in a day. This old hotel caught my eye online and I knew I wanted to go see it and photograph it. Besides this old hotel and a couple smaller buildings next to it, there wasn't much to the town but houses. It didn't take long to stop and get the photographs I needed for the HDR image after traveling some, but it was worth the trip. The final photo turned out better that I could have imagined.Editing
I took a few photos of the Ingalls Hotel at different exposures and made one HDR image using Adobe Lightroom. (I also use HDR Efex Pro 2 for HDR editing.)In my camera bag
I'm still in the process of getting my photography career started, so I don't have a lot of fancy equipment. Besides my Canon Rebel SL1, I keep my 18-55 mm lens and 75-300 mm telephoto zoom lens in my camera bag. I have some macro filters and other filters as well. I also have a small lens cleaning kit, a remote control, extra memory cards, a small lens hood, extra batteries and a couple battery chargers in my bag.Feedback
If you want to shoot an HDR image, take more than a few different exposure shots just to be safe. If you do not use a tripod, try not move your camera while you shoot the series of images for a High Dynamic Range photo. When you are trying to frame the photo how you want it, try not to have things in your frame that will move a lot between your images. If you have a few trees in your frame and it is really windy outside, you may have a problem in post. Certain HDR editing programs handle movement between photos in the series better than other programs. HDR Efex Pro 2 does a good job with ghost reduction if you have movement between the photos you use for the HDR image or if you had trouble holding your camera still while shooting.
