33 responses to “Widening Perception”
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Is it not marvellous to be able to capture such a fantastic image in a wide view!
Partial reaction to Miki_J40; partial comment to Steve and to anyone:
In my opinion, whatever type or quality camera one uses and whatever mild enhancing one does or does not, the result is always what the photographer perceives and wants us to see. This is what counts to me.
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…if this is your first hdr, i can´t imagine about the next ones to come.
Brilliantly brillant work!
I am re-happy to see you did it. All my congrats, Jurv. 😉
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thanks y’all!
Mike: Our cameras cannot capture in a single exposure the same range from bright to dark that our eyes can see. Analog and digital cameras have a much narrower dynamic range. With a single shot, I either get the dark shaded promenade or the brightly sunlit area through the arches, but not both. So I used a tripod and remote to keep the camera perfectly steady, and took three shots at -2, 0, +2 EV. Then I did an HDR Merge of the three photos, which creates one composite photo using the best of the three exposures for each region. I did not modify the merged image.
Mimosa: I think of this HDR technique as bringing photography closer to the dynamic range of the eye, and so it seems like a natural extension of our perception. The biggest trick was finding a good location and waiting for a moment uncluttered by scads of moving tourists.
Lamo: Adobe CS2. I’ve been real curious about HDR, especially the photos of Jeff Clow, who introduced me to the concept and was kind enough to answer my questions. Luckily HDR Merge is an automated script, so I can still say I have no idea how to use Photoshop…. =)
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"I can still say I have no idea how to use Photoshop…"
Potochop is a one way road, m´dear.
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The people! That is exactly one thing that initially came to my mind. I wondered how long it took to get an uncluttered moment as I am sure that this is a popular place to walk around for students and tourists! A couple of years ago, I have seen a few times satellite photos of this faraway view and I have visited the university website photos. I am glad to see this great view from the ground. The architecture has the exotic, indirect Moorish influence of the spaniards. The arches, the diamond shaped flooring tiles and also the colours here are incredible!
(Drona: I see well the sculptures in the original size view. I also see lots of cars and bicycles.)
I hope to see more examples of HDR now that you have this expensive gift which you must honnor. We will all benefit, even if you never really learn to use photoshop. I do not have photoshop but I find that it often takes a lot of time to learn well whatever type of free program I use for anything. No one has that much time to learn everything. I do love the challenge though! Let us hope that you are a fast learner and show us more great results.
Here is an option of a different type for those who have less generous friends.
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html -
SJ: Thanks for the explanation on how you got the inside and outside to show so perfectly. I saw the photo on my blackberry just as you posted it, hence the comment on the sculptures. Great photo-merge. Another thing on the list of things to learn: HDR…
Mimosa: I like the inexpensive autostitch too… -
HDR is interesting, but so is DRI.
While HDR gets this "oh that’s cool" effect the first times, in practise doing good artictic HDR is very hard.
DRI seems more natural many times, and is even harder than HDR to get right, it is not just doing something automatically in Photoshop or Photomatix.
For the photo above, more than 3 shots at various EVs would probably have made it even better. While it is easier to start with 3 shots and sometimes even using auto bracketing, a good result usually needs 5-7 shots of the same scene.
Good luck with HDR and DRI !
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Excellent discussion/tutorial on High Dynamic Range here:
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Gorgeous, I understand you have the largest collection of Rodin in the world next to his hometown:)
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Ok, the introduction of DRI in the conversation is interesting.
I don´t get a clear idea of the difference, but it seems I am not the only one to be confused about this all…
http://www.flickr.com/groups/dynamic_range_increase/discuss/7205...
For what I have read so far, I am aintuitive DRI maker, eventhough I always work with one picture and overlay copies of it and work on different parts as needed. It´s not easy, and not always you get a good picture to work this way, but in certain cases you can achieve a respectable effect (whether the result looks "real" or you wanted it to look more "arty").
Anyone with any software that allows to work with layers and to adjust color curves, and has a "magic tool" (to cut out the parts from the upper layers you want to be visible from the bottom layers, like cartoon scenary) can do this. It´s not difficult. However, for a person out of the image edition software thing, can sound at first like chinese.
This is an example:
original:
The statue has been cutout from the sky in order to be able to work with the blue without interfering the natural colors of it -the statue´s-. I adjusted blue freely at the bottom layer (the one with the sky) and I preserved the natural tones of the statue (just gave it more contrast to make it look better against the deep blue).
The result I liked a lot. It´s true that the sky was never that blue, but the color captured by the camera was not the one I saw either -too pale-, because it focused in the statue. As well I wanted to make a popart effect with high contrast.
original:
Here the sky was "washed" and when I wanted to highlight the bricks the sky went reddish, and when I tried to give depth to the sky, the building went pale blue. Had to use 3 copies and make the different adjustments and the cutouts at each layer (on top the building, behing the windows of the building, and at bottom the sky). [note aside: i don´t use potochop, but Fireworks -macromedia´s-]
I think that DRI in general, including HDR as a subset, a type of DRI, is a wonderful technique and really entertaining and appealing to work with. The results are nice always, for you get what you had in mind, or what you remember you actually saw with your eyes, or because something completely crazy and different emerged and you have a totally new work of art in front of you.
Art is more about playing and experimenting than about strict methods and definitions. For me.
Lovely work… J, Tell me… I just connected things: Is this part of the escenario where the Singularity summit in May will take place, right? my Jesus *sigh*
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Si Alienita. Quite near, but I’d have to turn to my right and walk out of the Quad to get to the Singualrity Summit.
Thanks for the examples…. It sounds like this DRI technique means that I’d have to learn Photoshop first…. which I’m trying to resist….
B-man: I was thinking Escher too. I just need to get a 360-degree wide-angle lens to loop the arches.
JKaljundi: right you are. HDR has been tough to learn. From the pointers, I now realize that my apertures have bounced around when shooting in Program Mode… and this creates some blurry artifacts in the Merge. Will use aperture-priority in the future.
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stanford? !! just been to visit this fab place yesterday. 🙂
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I like the shadows and the rich colors, and the fact that you didn’t over-use the HDR technique. The World Through My Eyes AND Scientist Photographers
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Hi, I’ve chosen your photo for the competition of the week at Scientist Photographers group, you can follow the scoring in the discussion section of our group! Good Luck!
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This is a great photo! It has been selected to be featured on the new travel Web site TravelMuse. The image appears on our alpha site (alpha.travelmuse.com) with attribution to you and a link to your Flickr page. If you have any questions feel free to contact us at photo@travelmuse.com. Thank you, and keep shooting!
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