About 8 months ago when I was staying out at Potts Point I found this great view of the city which I took a series of photographs of one night with bracketed exposures with the intention of turning them into a high dynamic range photo. At the time I processed them with Photoshop’s tone mapping tool but was a little disappointed in the results – there simply wasn’t the range in there that I was looking for along with some odd artifacting.
Recently I’ve been re-processing my HDR images with Photomatix which gives a much, much nicer result. After processing the 3 exposures to a tone mapped image I went back into Photoshop to clean up the sky (which was suffering from some pretty severe ghosting) and mask out some of the burnt out highlights.
I was surprised at the difference that the different forms of processing made. It’s certainly not perfect, but for what was, more or less, my first experiment at HDR photography it turned out pretty well. It is also available on flickr.
There will be a series of HDR photographs coming soon as I go through my album and re-process the images. Actually, there will be a lot of photographs in general coming over the next few weeks having finally sorted out a photo library and workflow system. I’ll save that, however, for another post.
While this is a little dated now, I only just got around to watching the science behind Benjamin Button detailing some of the techniques used by Digital Domain (among other companies) to bring Benjamin and the world around him into existence. It was an Oscar that was well deserved.
The thing I like about David Fincher is how he uses visual effects in that it always serves something in the story – rarely is it spectacle for spectacle’s sake. Well worth a look if you don’t mind having the movie magic that is Benjamin Button destroyed.
You just don’t get sunsets like this anywhere else. Us Australians are spoilt sometimes. Also available on Flickr.
Also; lots of updates to the photography portfolio section of this website today if you’d like to have a look…
Quadcamera is an iPhone app that loosely simulates the multi-lens camera that takes a series of images over time and presents them as one image. Resolution is rather limited – my understanding is that the app is actually taking screen grabs of the iPhone and scaling them down rather than directly taking the 2MP image from the camera. So you’re not going to be able to print any of these pictures off (at any reasonable size) severely limiting its actual usefulness. But when you pair it with CameraBag you can at least get some interesting photos that you can upload to facebook.
Both apps are available for a few dollars each on the app store.
