My little daughter calls this house "the house of the monsters", it´s located in a nice little town called TEOCALTICHE, about 2 hours from here. sorry for the energy and phone wires, but couldn´t take the picture without them. Image Unavailable, Please Login
A few of my favorites over the years... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I´m becoming an automotive photographer =) look at this concept car of my daughter in HDR!. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I had 4 glasses of wine and it's half time at the Fiesta Bowl. You can change everything. Image Unavailable, Please Login
A sad picture I took today with my iPhone on my way to the studio in Brooklyn. Image Unavailable, Please Login
i love Paris by night, thanks Brian Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Finally renewed my subscription, and can again post pictures. Here's some "recent" shots (been shooting film a lot and have no scanner): Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
95% of the HDR shots I have seen do NOT do HDR any justice. Most people still don't understand the correct time and place to use the technique, resulting in some funky pastel-looking shots. Just my opinion.
You may or may not of heard about the wildfire that broke out in Boulder, CO yesterday. Last night I went out with some friends to see it and snapped these two shots. The first one is from a hill on the campus of CU, the second is up the road as close as we could get--probably about a mile or so from the mountain. 1) http://www.flickr.com/photos/31321431@N08/3180435894/ 2) http://www.flickr.com/photos/31321431@N08/3180435904/
High Dynamic Range, it consists of taking 3 photos at 3 different exposure settings (usually 0, +2, -2) and then using software to combine them all together and create a cool effect.
Chris gave a brief description of the what. The why is as follows: digital camera sensors can't display a very wide range of brightness. If a scene in the forest is metered for the shadow detail, the sunlight through the leaves at the top will more than likely be overexposed. The opposite is also true. When parts of an image are either over or underexposed, there is a loss of detail. If the camera makes a bright scene white, no amount of tampering will bring out the details. If it makes a dark scene black, you are equally as hosed. HDR images allow for a much larger dynamic range than that of a single digital exposure. If I take a shot metered for the shadows, another for the highlights, and another for the mid tones, and then I stitch them together, I'm going to get a better representation of what the eye saw (since the eye can discern a much wider dynamic range). Alternately, people use it with a technique called tone-mapping to create the effect Chris mentioned. edit: Note that some people create psudo-HDR images from a single shot by digitally increasing and decreasing the brightness before slapping them together. I call it "psudo" because although it creates a visual effect, the image won't exhibit any more detail that the single exposure.
Is Photoshop's HDR "maker" more for making sure everything is exposed correctly and less about the HDR "effect"? It doesn't seem that PS does the tone mapping part. Thanks for explaining the technical side of it, never understood most of it and now that I know how to use it to better expose rather than the effect, which I have never been a huge fan of.