HDR and Macro at Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead Museum

This Farmstead museum is chock full of things: kitchen, a general store, farm equipment, a barber shop, dentist and doctor paraphernalia, you name it. It has all of the details for macro and is perfect for HDR. We will meet at 12:00 and we have the entire place to ourselves, with tripods! Tom and I will be shooting during this photo tour, but we will point out some tips on exposure, HDR, bracketing, composition, etc. We will have the entire place to ourselves (no public), with tripods!

We also offer hands on how to set up your camera for HDR and post-processing workshops -- work on or learn how to process those HDR exposures with tonemapping in Photomatix.

We have posted some images in the photo album from our last trip there. There is a bathroom on the premises and it is an easy place to get around and even work out of your car. There are tables in the administration office (heat or A/C) if you need a snack or a rest.

"The Museum property was once part of John Holcombe's "Plantation", according to his will of 1742. In 1968, the Farmstead was donated to the Hunterdon County Historical Society In 1984, the property was deeded to the Holcombe-Jimison Farmstead, Inc. The Museum is housed in the restored three story bank barn that was built into the hillside to make both floors accessible from ground level. Livestock were kept on the lower level, crops above. Today, some of the exhibits arranged in the barn cover the tools and equipment used by the farmer to raise and harvest the crops that provided fodder for livestock and commodities to sell. Other displays cover the domestic chores of the farmer's wife in the preparation and preservation of food and the making of clothing. Early examples of now common implements and appliances give the visitor a sense of passing time. The Museum's volunteers and Trustees have restored the property and added outbuildings for the Post Office, General Store, Blacksmith Shop, Carriage Shed, and Print Shop."