Know What You Did Last Summer

No hidden agenda here. Just a bit of FPF (Floridian Pool Foolery) while staying with my mom in Palm Coast… felt kinda good to chill.

I rarely do anything, and that especially goes for chilling, without the camera near at hand... so I snapped on the wide angle, took off my sunglasses and reeled off 3 bracketed shots with the intention of 'tone-mapping' them into an HDR (High Dynamic Range) image. The process, done in this case with the Photomatix program, uses an algorithm to take the best exposed areas of each of the 3 takes and combines them in a final image. This helps to avoid under- and overexposed areas and at the same time giving the image a unique overall vibe.

Although the tone mapping worked well, the image lacked impact. So I added a shot of my wife's hand holding a strawberry daiquiri, and a shot of my daughter in her teens on a chaise longue. Simply cause I could.