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He designed the whole campus.

Very confusing to get around in, pretty cold and dank in the winter but I love how the campus looks.

Close-up of the Teacher's offices in the Art/Design building.
     
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Nov 24, 2008, 06:11 PM
 
I like it. Blue top, green bottom, grey-brown centre. Clean lines, sharp colours. Doesn’t tell much of a story, but I tend to like architectural photos, even if they rarely tell much of a story.

You could have climbed on to the roof and gotten rid of that distracting antenna, though.
     
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I don't think the campus police would've taken kindly to that
     
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Nov 24, 2008, 06:19 PM
 
Gorgeous (if not necessarily practical) buildings there, sek929. They remind me a bit of Falling Water. Beautiful art that is not at all people-friendly.

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Originally Posted by sek929 View Post
I don't think the campus police would've taken kindly to that
Bah, campus police schmampus police! (Or should that be “schmampus schmolice”?)
     
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Nov 26, 2008, 09:08 PM
 
My very first foray into the world of HDR—like? No like?

     
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Nov 27, 2008, 02:00 AM
 
It almost looks blown out, which can still work with some HDRs, but I'm not seeing an increased dynamic range unless the original photo is very dull. Otherwise, I might try some dodging and burning on the rocks with some selective sharpening there too.

How did you create this HDR?

edit: upon staring at it, I see the increased range, but the rocks in the foreground I still wish were sharper.
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Nov 27, 2008, 01:42 PM
 
I don't know as that qualifies as actual HDR. And that's a good thing™! I am NOT a HDR fan.

Was the original photo pretty washed out or dark? Can you post the original for us O'i's'i'n?
     
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Originally Posted by Railroader View Post
O'i's'i'n?
I love this.

In response to the picture, it doesn't seem as crisp and sharp as HDRs typically are. Still not a bad photo, though.
     
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Nov 27, 2008, 02:17 PM
 
just thought this photo I took was cool:

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That's one effing ugly squirrel

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Originally Posted by Oisín View Post
My very first foray into the world of HDR—like? No like?

O'i's'o'i'n, I downloaded your picture and fiddled with the levels. Let me know if you want me to delete it and wipe it from my web space:

     
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Publix:

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Feels a bit off balance to me Ice. If you are going for symmetry you have to make sure it's dead on. It can be pretty tough.

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Nov 27, 2008, 06:04 PM
 
Yeah. It was a quick shot, I'd do it again when I get my 10-20.

I may bring my camera again, but it has to be late to get empty aisles. : \
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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure View Post
It almost looks blown out, which can still work with some HDRs, but I'm not seeing an increased dynamic range unless the original photo is very dull. Otherwise, I might try some dodging and burning on the rocks with some selective sharpening there too.

How did you create this HDR?

edit: upon staring at it, I see the increased range, but the rocks in the foreground I still wish were sharper.
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I don't know as that qualifies as actual HDR. And that's a good thing™! I am NOT a HDR fan.

Was the original photo pretty washed out or dark? Can you post the original for us O'i's'i'n?
It was fairly grey and getting dark, so the original was quite dark and dull in colours. This is why I decided to try HDR on it in the first place. I hadn’t considered it when I took the picture. It was created using Photoshop’s “Merge to HDR” function on three different fake exposures of the same image—since I only took one image, I simply ‘bracketed’ that one in Aperture and exported it as three different ones.

I didn’t want it to become what is normally known as ‘HDR’ (the psychedelic, blown-out colours), just an increase in dynamic range to more accurately reflect what the colours were actually like.

You can see the original (smaller size, though) here.


Railroader, I quite like your version. It gives the sky a very different colour from what it was really like (even mine is too bright and colourful; it was quite grey in real life), but the blueness of the water is almost exactly the colour it was in actuality.
     
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Nov 28, 2008, 02:01 AM
 
Yeah it looks like I was trying to say "that ain't HDR, THIS is".. Sorry, that wasn't my intention.

Looking now at your original there wasn't much to work with in the sky.

Of course I'm not into halos and weird artifacts and noise from poorly done HDR treatment. Though HDR sometimes is the only way to properly expose different elements in a photo.

Clicking this link I ask "How can someone HATE HDR?"
(certainly not my photo)
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblac...559&size=large

And here's an example where sometimes it's necessary, and what, you'd like it until you heard HDR work was involved?
http://photography-thedarkart.blogsp...dr-my-way.html

Just because some people (like me sometimes) take a technique further than what is tasteful doesn't mean that the technique sucks. Can we drop the negative blanket statements regarding a widely used tool for creating proper exposure?!

Here's a car I shot. Under a bridge in the shadow. Sky and buildings behind were pretty cool, but of course I had to expose the car which blew out the sky and everything else. Wait, no I don't. I bracketed 5 shots and put them together later.

Original, middle exposure, straight from camera:


HDR version (and some color and sharpening):




Here's my take on your original:
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I have yet to try my hand at the whole HDR thing.
     
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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure View Post
Yeah it looks like I was trying to say "that ain't HDR, THIS is".. Sorry, that wasn't my intention.

Looking now at your original there wasn't much to work with in the sky.

Of course I'm not into halos and weird artifacts and noise from poorly done HDR treatment. Though HDR sometimes is the only way to properly expose different elements in a photo.

Clicking this link I ask "How can someone HATE HDR?"
(certainly not my photo)
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblac...559&size=large

And here's an example where sometimes it's necessary, and what, you'd like it until you heard HDR work was involved?
http://photography-thedarkart.blogsp...dr-my-way.html

Just because some people (like me sometimes) take a technique further than what is tasteful doesn't mean that the technique sucks. Can we drop the negative blanket statements regarding a widely used tool for creating proper exposure?!

Here's a car I shot. Under a bridge in the shadow. Sky and buildings behind were pretty cool, but of course I had to expose the car which blew out the sky and everything else. Wait, no I don't. I bracketed 5 shots and put them together later.

Original, middle exposure, straight from camera:


HDR version (and some color and sharpening):




Here's my take on your original:
I have to say, I still hate HDR. Hate. Even your example of the library.

Wikipedia says this about HDR:
The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.
And I completely disagree with the statement. It does NOT "accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels". Not in any sense of the imagination. It falsely represents the wide range of color and light ranges not present in the actual scene being captured.

Not. A. Fan.

Now this is my perspective as a photographer.

From an artistic standpoint, I can see the attraction it has, but I rarely am ever impressed or feel anything beyond "meh".
     
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Nov 28, 2008, 02:19 PM
 
People go overboard when using HDR software. It always happens. Sometimes it has (to me anyway) cool artistic results, sometimes it just looks like colorful crap.

I would still say it's purpose is correct in the wiki you quoted.

I shot this car the other day in my buddy's driveway:

**

Even if I had a filter for the sky, it would have been tough to expose the shadowed car and the sky together, as well as get the tire treads and everything else showing as I saw it without using multiple exposures.

Did you read Drew Gardner's comments on his blog that I linked? I mean, you did quote it.


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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure View Post
Did you read Drew Gardner's comments on his blog that I linked? I mean, you did quote it.
I did not read it. I quoted wikipedia's entry on HDR.
     
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I meant that you quoted my entire post, including the link to homedude's blog.

I shall try to convince no more.

I'm still waiting to see what Oisin thinks of my edit on his photo!
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Nov 29, 2008, 06:36 AM
 
lots of people loath HDR because our eyes tell us its wrong (because it is). the real world isn't exposed that way. as long as it is used as a method for showing an idealized view of things (as in Ice's car up there, altho i would tone down the super saturation of the water) then i'm cool with it.

oh, and hello all. i should post something in here. hmm, people, places or things?
     
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Things!
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I also like it. I usually hate overdone HDRs, but as long as you don't notice when casually looking at it, it's good
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i don't do a lot of still life or setup shots, but a friend wanted something for her blog:



personally, i think my attempts at playing with flaming drinks worked out better than this syringe experiment, but that's how it goes. hear that kids? don't do needle drugs!
     
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Originally Posted by Demonhood View Post
i don't do a lot of still life or setup shots, but a friend wanted something for her blog:



personally, i think my attempts at playing with flaming drinks worked out better than this syringe experiment, but that's how it goes. hear that kids? don't do needle drugs!
I like it! I wish it was just a tad closer, but I can't find much wrong with this shot at all (good thing too; I'm not in a very nitpicky mood).

Here's one from a walk my wife and I took in a nearby wooded area on Black Friday. Other people spent the day trampling Walmart employees. We celebrated by mostly ignoring humanity for a few hours.

     
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Originally Posted by IceEnclosure View Post
Here's my take on your original:
I have to say, I like RR’s better. Yours makes the picture a lot darker than I want it to be (especially because, despite the greyness and sinking dusk, it was actually quite bright walking around there).

Your sky is less blown out than mine, which is good; but the rest is too dark for me.
     
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Originally Posted by Demonhood View Post
i don't do a lot of still life or setup shots, but a friend wanted something for her blog:

You should have included more/all of the foot.

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Agree with - - e r i k - - . Kind of. Either more, or less of the foot. More would be better though. The colors and, focus, "artistic nature" is all very very excellent. I love the deep black and the gradient change through the glass. I love the syringe sitting there looking ready to be used. But the composition is a little distracting to me.

My opinion of course.
     
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I have to agree. The partly showing foot and the slight crookedness of the stem of the glass are the only two things that bother me a little.

I also have to agree with DH himself—the fire ones were better.
     
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I love Johannesburg summer sunsets!

HDR done in photomatix, taken with a D90.
     
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I like it.

It's really dark, but looks better full-size. That one little cloud on the left is distracting, but there's nothing you could've done about that. Still a pretty shot.
     
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Pumping some life into a dead thread.

Or "mostly dead."
A little Princess Bride for you folks out there...

Anyhoo, here's one of the wife.
     
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Anyone have any experience licensing out their photos? I just licensed out my most popular photo (#1 for koala on Flickr, Wikipedia illustration) to Screenlife Games:



Got $800 for it (exclusive worldwide license for DVD games and puzzles for 6 years. Good price?

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Originally Posted by Jawbone54 View Post
Anyhoo, here's one of the wife.
Nice uhm…composition

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No comment.


Let's just say Jawbone is a happy man.
     
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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
Got $800 for it (exclusive worldwide license for DVD games and puzzles for 6 years. Good price?
No kidding!

How did this happen? Did they approach you?
     
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No kidding!

How did this happen? Did they approach you?
Yup. Through Flickr. I might just get into the business of shooting Koalas exclusively


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I thought koalas were a protected species?
     
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I thought koalas were a tasty species?
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god i hate hdr.

here's one from last weekend. this will probably get some differing opinions but i wanted to emphasize the motion of the people passing the older broken down man, who was collecting handouts in his hat. the man represents an older culture and came from central american to work and most likely give his family a better life. now he is passed and ignored by the americanized youth. the boy was the only one to give him a look and was probably the only one who couldn't give him anything else. what i like is that you can see the motion from the slower shutter speed, but you can still make out the sympathetic expression on the boy's face and i got the timing just right so he was in the shadow to be exposed correctly.

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Did another HDR of Joburg:

     
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Wow, what did you give that koala to drink ?

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Yup. Through Flickr. I might just get into the business of shooting Koalas exclusively

<Tim Conway> It's a ... koala bear...</Tim Conway> (Had to be done. Look up Tim and "The Carol Burnett Show" for details...)

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Wow, what did you give that koala to drink ?

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Koalas have a VERY slow metabolism and spend an awful lot of time dozing. They're more active than sloths, but that's not saying much.

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Originally Posted by - - e r i k - - View Post
Yup. Through Flickr. I might just get into the business of shooting Koalas exclusively

That is a good shot. I can see a shot like this being used in an encyclopedia or a children's magazine. You are very lucky. my local zoo has the koala bears behind this hideously glaring glass with lights set up to create such glare that it is impossible to get a good shot. I don't even shoot pictures at the exhibit anymore when I go there.

I have been trying my hand at product photography type of shots lately. The truck is built from a kit, the body they supply is clear lexan. I painted it from the inside, most of it is paint, the only decals are the lights and sponsor decals. Even the chrome is airbrushed paint.



     
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8 shot panoramic from the Rolex 24 at Daytona this weekend. Great time, and about 500 photos to go through!
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good job as usual Ice
     
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Sweeeet. Nice stitch.

I look forward to seeing some more from the event.
     
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look on my flickr : )
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