Foxholes Nature Reserve In HDR: Spring
Channel: Homebrew HDR
Date: 2021-04-10

Foxholes is a small nature reserve in the Cotswolds UK.  I took these images and video clips using the Fuji XT4 all hand held with a 55mm F.14 7 Artisans lens.  HDR does not have to be about striking colours and shocking contrast, it also lets video show what  modern cameras see!  The video was captured in 10bit flog and processed to 12bit smpte2084(PQ) with ffmpeg.  The images were captured raw and similarly converted via tiff files.  All post processing was done with ffmpeg.  Anyone can capture the beautiful natural world with these techniques. Let use see nature as it is and not flattened!

Note that to get the flog into 12bit smpte2084 properly required a hand written script which was a huge pain to be honest. I hope to release a video on how I did this soon(ish) when I have had chance to optimise and perfect the workflow.  The issue being that the flog transfer function is not known to ffmpeg and they do not provide a lut for translation from flog to smpte2084(PQ) only to BT709 which crushes the colour gamut and dynamic range - which sort of defeats the point doesn't it?