… or should I? Well, yes and no.

Sat­urday was a beau­ti­ful autumn day here on the east coast of Ire­land. As Steffi wanted to get some bak­ing and cook­ing done, I took lil’ Sophie for a walk (well, ride in her buggy). As I came up towards Car­ton Avenue and this beau­ti­ful scene opened up in front of my eyes, I star­ted kicked myself: Why did I not bring my cam­era?!

Well, I just for­got. And I decided I was too lazy to go back and get it. Instead, I grabbed my phone and tried my best to cap­ture the scene. Of course, you don’t have things like RAW cap­ture on your phone which could have eas­ily dealt with the some­what lar­ger but not too large dynamic range of the scene. I didn’t have a mod­ern enough phone to have HDR cap­ture right built into the the phone either, nor did I have an app like that installed…

So, I tried to do it manu­ally: I tried to hold the phone steady and took three pho­tos, first focus­sing (and thus tak­ing the expos­ure meas­ure­ment) at the bright­est point (the sky), then middle bright­ness (trees on the left), and lastly in the shad­ows (bot­tom right). The res­ult­ing bracket of three pho­tos (each roughly one stop apart, judging by the EXIF) was then thrown into my favour­ite free soft­ware: Image­Fuser which after some minor fid­dling with the para­met­ers pro­duced some­thing close to the above. Some more post-​processing in Pho­toshop (increase sat­ur­a­tion and con­trast, add vign­ette) and the res­ult ain’t too bad!

Only thing miss­ing: res­ol­u­tion. I guess I just have to bring a “proper” cam­era next time…