Catching up
Before I went to Austria for the Wörthersee-treffen I really had tons of pictures to go through from various shoots. Add the twelve hundred and something pictures I took in Austria and you can imagine I’ve spent some time at the computer post processing pictures the last week.
But I’m finally up to date, including processing the pictures I took at a shoot yesterday. Yay for me!
The pictures from Austria came out mostly looking like snapshots, which they also were, so I won’t bother you with them here. For those of you who are really interested you can visit this link and have a look. Once there you’ll find some of the pictures and a travel log of sorts. Unfortunately, it’s in Norwegian but oh well.
To round up this post, here is a picture from the Audi Forum in Ingolstadt, Germany that I snapped on our way home from Austria.
Crazy week, Crazy lights
Boy, the last couple of weeks has been crazy busy with stuff happening both at home and work. No time for anything really, so when Sunday came and I had a couple of hours to spare I went out and nursed my other hobby, the previously posted Volkswagen Golf.
I gave it a thorough clean, inside and out and got my front lamps tinted.
Naturally I had to bring out the camera and make sure to capture it “on film”. This picture is actually a HDR-picture like in the one in this post. In the previous one I’ve exaggerated the HDR-effect, something I didn’t want to do in this one. I wanted the picture to look like a “real” photo but seeing as the lighting on site was terrible I took three different exposures to catch as much detail as possible. The three exposures are shot handheld after being inspired by Pete Leong who captures some really great handheld HDR’s.
Check out his flickr photostream or his website here. Don’t forget to click the picture of my car to view it larger as well.
Phenomena
Double post today, but here goes.
The last year or so a phenomena called HDR has swept across image sharing websites, forums and the net in general. In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.
To the Human Eye this produces some quite spectaclular images when viewed on a computer screen. I’m no pro at this like for instance Arin Ahnell , Toni_V or Michael (stocks photography), but I do give HDR a go now and then. Here’s a proceced shot from tonight.
Feel free to check it out on Flickr where you can view the image in higher resolution :) And make sure to visit the guys I mentioned above to view their work. Click on their names and enjoy!