Well, I was in Belfast today, took the camera with me (as always), and what did I forget? The memory card. So I got 1 RAW photo onto the internal memory, and a couple of JPEGs. Dad was at the library at Queens, and I walked back up to meet him, and snapped this photo. The weather was particuarly dingy, and it didn’t come out brilliantly. Fortunately a bit of HDR poking, and it came out looking… interesting. Since the 365 project is as much about trying out new things, I thought I’d do just that: so this became my first HDR which I’ve posted to Flickr. For anybody who hasn’t come across it, the building is the Main Campus site of The Queen’s Univerity of Belfast, designed by Charles Lanyon.

For the technical details of this picture, I used QTPFSGUI to assemble the HDR from an ORF file (Olympus RAW), and I played around with the different settings, then cropped in photoshop (to get rid of the litter in the flower bed straight in front of me).

When I was walking around Belfast today, I realised why Belfast steets seem so squalid compared to other cities. Apart from the shops, I have realised that it must be the number of man-hole covers. On Fountain Street I counted four together in a close group, and there were about fifteen in the whole (short) street – this on a pedestrianised precinct, with fancy paving. You’d swear that Belfast had the world’s most complex communication systems, all buried underground…