HDR Self Portrait

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So this Saturday I went to Fairfield Hills, an abandoned mental asylum that was closed about 15 years ago in Newtown. I LOVE going to that place, but the only thing that bugs me about it is the police! Every ten minutes or so, they feel the need to drive by and “check up” on you.. Pretty annoying, but understandable. MANY of the windows there are broken, and when you would walk up near them (obviously not when the police are around b/c they have a 15 feet imaginary boundary around the buildings) you could feel how COLD it is inside those buildings. I mean it was fairly sunny for the previous three days or so, and it was FREEZING in there.. Does that mean something..? Who knows..

For this photo I set up my tripod and set it on the Auto Exposure Balance setting that helps to create the High Dynamic Range effect that was achieved in this photo with three combined photos. The HDR helps to bring out the lights and darks in the photo that would normally be blown out or completely black. Thank god I had my cousin there to push the shutter so I didn’t have to run with the 10 second timer and pose! I hope to go back there again because I never leave there without taking some awesome shots!

-A.Videira