Back to Papaturro, and the Swimming Hole

Here is the main part of the swimming hole, just a few meters below the cascade shown in the photo below. Patty, Susanna, and others enjoy the cool water.

Papaturro, El Salvador, again for a moment. This is the stream entering a popular swimming hole a short walk from the community. The photograph is an illustration of something I've been working on lately--high density range, or HDR. This scene had a very broad range of brightnesses--far too great to be recorded in a single exposure. So I photographed it using two exposures. One was two stops overexposed and the other two stops underexposed, favoring the dark and the light areas, respectively. Then the two were merged. There's a way to do this in Photoshop. Results so far have been very interesting. I wouldn't say it absolutely requires a tripod, but a tripod is very helpful. It certainly does require a steady support for the camera.