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.

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…

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