This is the view from our Hilton Hotel suite on Jeju Island, Korea. We spent our 8th wedding anniversary enjoying the sights! Jen’s sister is watching the kids for our three-day vacation. It’s strange being alone, but in a nice way!
Archive for the ‘Korea’ Category
Beautiful Ocean View
13
Jul
Rites Ceremony
06
May
Each May, the remnants of Korea’ royal family gather for a ceremony to honor the dead. The colorful events draws thousands of onlookers.
Palace Guard
04
Oct
A reenactment of Korea’s traditional royal history happens daily at Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul.
Gyeongbok Palace
04
Oct
This ancient palace is the centerpiece of Korean royal history. It is located in central Seoul.
Gyeongbok Palace
24
Nov
Forgive the Photoshop effects. Purple looks cool, but the sky was really more of a blue!
Woljeong Temple Guard
28
May
This scary statue guards the entrance to Woljeong Temple in Odaesan National Park, South Korea.
HDR
25
May
A light breeze rings a bell at Woljoeng Temple. Woljoengsa is one of five Buddhist temples in Odaesan National Park on Korea’s scenic east coast. Visitors enjoy peace and solitude at this serene locale four hours drive from the hussle and bussle of Seoul.
I originally shot this in May 2005 during a vacation. Recently a designer for Singapore Air Magazine contacted me. This is a composite shot of three bracketed exposures from a tripod in Camera RAW. I guess it pays to shoot everything in RAW and archive your digital negatives!
I combined the three shots in CS4 Bridge>Tools>Merge to HDR. The resulting shot was a 32-bit high-res image. Because the wind was blowing, I then had to address the wind chime’s movement. I converted the HDR image to 8-bit RGB and opened another raw version to mask in just one chime. This was shot with my old Nikon D70 and doesn’t have the sharpness I am accustomed to these days. But it ran on the pages of Singapore Air Magazine, so you have got to give some credibility to the old D70!
