Back in March of 2008, I helped chaperone a church youth group on a trip to participate in the Nightwatch program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in NYC. St. John the Devine is the largest gothic style cathedral in the world, full of some really beautiful spaces. I thought I'd try out some HDR with the Enfuse software and my Canon A630. I use Bracketeer, a GUI front end to Enfuse on my iMac. At that time, there was not a simple way to align slightly offset images from handheld shots and run Bracketeer so I used a (really dinky) tripod for all of the shots (
Bracketeer now offers image alignment). Bracketing shots on the A630 was made possible with the CHDK firmware hack and the promise of this was what finally gave me the incentive to install and use the hack. I used the bracketing script, EVbracket which is available on the
CHDK wiki site.
With the articulating LCD screen on the small tripod the A630 was a wonderful platform for bracketing shots in the cathedral. It was unobtrusive and very quiet, I had the shutter set to 'silent' mode, something you can't really do with a SLR. At times I had the tripod pressed laterally against a wall or pillar with one hand while adjusting the camera and pressing the shutter with the other. My Op-Tek single-point neckstrap came in very handy here.
Link to
the gallery:
Warning - the EXIF data for the 35mm focal length equivalents to the Canon A630 focal lengths are wildly off. 7.3mm on the Canon is equivalent to a 35mm focal length for a 35mm film camera.
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