Yesterday I took a drive looking for some new images. Mostly I found some places to come back to during more aesthetically successful times of year.
HDR images have so much more potential than single exposure images that I'm basically not at all interested in shooting single exposures of anything any more. The three emages above were assembled from the same three exposure sandwich processed in the three different ways you can do it in photomatix, details enhancer, tone compressor, and exposure blending. Photomatix seems a bit fickle in whether or not it decides it's going to watermark my images.
Doing HDR kind of changes how you see, where you used to see something that would potentially make a good photograph, now i see things that are more like basic designs from which a photograph could be crafted. Really that has always been true of photgraphic media, it's just now HDR is a really powerful new tool that I personally really enjoy using, except for how it ties up my computer.
It's monday night again, again my last quiet hours with the cats. Vexing that DST takes out an hour of my night, not that I could ever sleep much monday nights anyway. Lately I find it strange how fast time turns and turns and turns. It's already monday morning, driving to my job, entering the building, it's already wednesday, I have more stops on the truck than I can finish; it's thursday and I have my easy hilltown route, it's friday already, i'm done with my last stop again, I'm driving down to northampton for open mic night again.
In a way week seems shorter than a day. At least working for coke.
HDR images have so much more potential than single exposure images that I'm basically not at all interested in shooting single exposures of anything any more. The three emages above were assembled from the same three exposure sandwich processed in the three different ways you can do it in photomatix, details enhancer, tone compressor, and exposure blending. Photomatix seems a bit fickle in whether or not it decides it's going to watermark my images.
Doing HDR kind of changes how you see, where you used to see something that would potentially make a good photograph, now i see things that are more like basic designs from which a photograph could be crafted. Really that has always been true of photgraphic media, it's just now HDR is a really powerful new tool that I personally really enjoy using, except for how it ties up my computer.
It's monday night again, again my last quiet hours with the cats. Vexing that DST takes out an hour of my night, not that I could ever sleep much monday nights anyway. Lately I find it strange how fast time turns and turns and turns. It's already monday morning, driving to my job, entering the building, it's already wednesday, I have more stops on the truck than I can finish; it's thursday and I have my easy hilltown route, it's friday already, i'm done with my last stop again, I'm driving down to northampton for open mic night again.
In a way week seems shorter than a day. At least working for coke.
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jonnytrrrash7:
happy birthday, dr!
thora:
Thank you, and...CATTY BIRD DAY!!!!!! 
