I remember the first time someone told me about HDR I was mildly interested but didn’t really know what the heck he was talking about.

Then one day I saw an HDR image but just thought the guy took amazing out of this world photos. Found out it was HDR and had to try it.

 

So I did. I was quite pleased with the odd ridiculous look and thought that’s just the way HDR looks.

Recently I’ve seen some very nicely done HDR that has inspired me to keep trying HDR.

 

I found the bracketing button on my camera and remembered how to use it. Set the timer to take 3 pictures so I won’t wiggle the camera pressing the button. I’m not going to tell you about the day it took me half an hour to find the timer or the family picture that I’m not in because I didn’t know where the timer was.

 

I made the HDR image and then just played around with the sliders until I thought I liked it. It looks kinda flat. Then I scrolled past the 3 presets it came with and something popped up asking me to load more presets. Load presets? I don’t have any presets to load. How do I make presets?

Off to Google I went. As it often happens I didn’t find what I originally set out looking for. Instead I found  a bunch of free presets from some generous person over at deviant art! Right there in the comments they told me how to install them.

 

The same image with one of the presets applied.

 

Whatever this preset is, it’s just what I was looking for!

Thank you The-Yard-Collective street photography club

 

I like pretty things, anything blue is usually pretty to me and shiney and cool icons for free just make my day.

1WD.CO had this great list of social icons. I went looking for better looking icons, as in better than what I currently have.

I like these pealing stickers and I like all the work these generous people put into making them and just share them. I like you PinkMustache guys! Nice choice of a font on your site too!

 

The guys at Dawghouse Design Studio came up with the cans. I kinda like them but can't figure out where to use them.

 

These clear ones are probably something I'd actually use. I really like the readme file that comes in the download:

Thanks For Downloading!
This resource is free for personal and commercial use ~ no attribution necessary.
Find many more quality resources on the Mysitemyway ETC Network.

...and learn how to make them yourself! http://tutorials.mysitemyway.com

My kind of people.

 

 So I downloaded a bunch of icons. Liked them, looked at them and then didn't do anything.

It was just one of those days, not a bad day in the least

 just one of those days. It was a day get inspired,

and then do something with the inspiration another day.

PS These are my favorite. They almost look eatable.