The Green Door

8. The Green Door: I like to look for small details in the landscape, in this case the urban landscape. I regularly pass a derelict building about a mile away form where I live and have spent several hours photographic it. Before I made the photograph of the green door, I knew I wanted to capture the texture of the old wood, the peeling paint and the doorknob. I decided to make a high dynamic range (HDR) image in am attempt to portray the textures of the door. I put my camera on my tripod ensuring that the three separate images I wanted to expose at 2 stop intervals would be aligned correctly with each other. I then used the excellent Photomatix software to combine the 3 RAW images and tome map them to the degree I wanted. The end result is an image that has good texture, with the paint appearing to peel away from the surface of the print, giving it almost a 3-D quality. I got some very funny looks from people passing by, then realised I was kneeling behind my tripod with a camera pointing at an old, ruined door on a busy Saturday morning.