Feb 07

Kiev, and Everything After

Posted: under visual storytelling.
Tags: Add new tag, Amusing Nonsense, HDR Photography

I'm on an internet connection here that is a bit iffy, so I'm going to experiment with a gallery plug-in that may or may not get me marked as a spammer, as well as uploading the shots. So bear with this experiment, and there should be more eye-candy goodness as the week progresses. [...more]

I’m still groggy from the flight over – I got on a plane at 12 noon on Friday, and got off at 7 p.m. Saturday.  In between, I got stuck in the middle seat on all three flights.  And in each case, the good folks at Northwest managed to put the three biggest guys on the plane all in the same row.  I am convinced that that is done just so that they can then watch clandestine surveillance footage and laugh their asses off, as three big guys all try to contort themselves and not elbow each other.

The fog, wet pavement, and industrial setting made me feel like I was in some kind of remake of "The Third Man."

The assignment here is to teach a group of newspaper reporters how to shoot, edit and post video.  I’m also going to take a morning to teach them about some of the emerging ad models on the web, since so many of the problems attendant to online video have to do with the uneven schemes for monetizing this kind of content.

I’m on an internet connection here that is a bit iffy, so I’m going to experiment with a gallery plug-in that may or may not get me marked as a spammer, as well as uploading the shots.  So bear with this experiment, and there should be more eye-candy goodness as the week progresses.

Schipohl Airport is starting to become familiar to me.

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Jan 01

HDR Photo Expermiments

Posted: under HDR Photography, Marin County, Multimedia.
Tags: HDR Photography

The landscape up here is so beautiful, and the light has been amazing.  I’ve taken to experimenting with combining multiple exposures into HDR photos. Here’s a view from atop Mt. Vision. This one needs a bit more adjusting – the fog clouds look pretty good, but the highlights of the sky & clouds in the [...] [...more]

The landscape up here is so beautiful, and the light has been amazing.  I’ve taken to experimenting with combining multiple exposures into HDR photos.

Here’s a view from atop Mt. Vision. This one needs a bit more adjusting – the fog clouds look pretty good, but the highlights of the sky & clouds in the upper left need to be processed a bit better.  Still this was a beautiful, amazing scene. (This was done with the HDR functions of Adobe Photoshop CS3)

Next, here’s that same scene, as handled by Photomatix:

You can clearly see the difference – in the Photomatix version, the color in the foreground pops out, without sacrificing the contrast & color in the fog banks in the background. I’ll be posting a video of the fog drifting in through the trees later…

Technorati Tags: HDR photography, Marin County

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