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News & ArtsTuesday, June 16, 2009
Two-Block Radius / Nepotism Night Light
Posted by Dominic Holden on Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:44 PM
My brother took this photo of Cal Anderson Park, which is practically inside our office—so posting it is a double conflict of interest—but it's so damn cool. Click the pic for a larger version.
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@2 Nick, I would imagine more that it is a HDR photo and not illustrated. Might want to know what you are talking about before you spout your hate.
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HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography involves taking exposures of different lengths and using software to combine them into one image. The problem is that your eye can perceive a lot more range in light than the camera can, and your monitor can only display a fraction of what the camera actually captures.
Why thanks folks!
This image is made out of three exposures (4, 8 and 15 seconds at f5) and my new ultra-wide angle lens, exported from Lightroom into Photomatrix Pro (that's the software that does the HDR magic) where extensive tweaking was performed.
My goal with HDR is *not* to show things as they "actually appear" but instead to portray them as *I* see them.
Lots more hot hot HDR action on my flickr page here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelhold…
Michael
HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography involves taking exposures of different lengths and using software to combine them into one image. The problem is that your eye can perceive a lot more range in light than the camera can, and your monitor can only display a fraction of what the camera actually captures.
Why thanks folks!
This image is made out of three exposures (4, 8 and 15 seconds at f5) and my new ultra-wide angle lens, exported from Lightroom into Photomatrix Pro (that's the software that does the HDR magic) where extensive tweaking was performed.
My goal with HDR is *not* to show things as they "actually appear" but instead to portray them as *I* see them.
Lots more hot hot HDR action on my flickr page here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelhold…
Michael
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Aw, I love Cal Anderson Park, which was about a 7-minute walk from my apartment. You had to go and make me homesick.
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@7: That really is an amazing photo. It does bend the brain a little, which is what I like art to do.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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This reservoir lid is quite possibly the best thing Greg Nickels has done as mayor (though don't we kinda have the Sept 11/Anthrax attacks to "thank" for it?).
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Takes me back to that evening when I did mushrooms at Cal Anderson. The colors, the buildings floating in space, the lights lit up like suns and as round and defined as onion bulbs.
Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Dominic.
Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Dominic.
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@4 Didn't say it was illustrated. Said it LOOKS illustrated, which appears to be part of the point. And it also looks kind of lame.
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ok nick.. why dont you post a cool city scape that isnt lame? Or is it all you can do is think you are cool by throwing out negativity?
Got an honest critique of the photo? Bring it. If not. STFU.
Got an honest critique of the photo? Bring it. If not. STFU.
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Hey, Nick...
So it *does* look kinda illustrated. It certainly doesn't look entirely real. But it's not trying to look "real" exactly, but it really looks exactly how I see it. Or, maybe how I can see it if I squint.
As far as the lame factor is concerned, well, I'm sure as hell no professional photographer and I have no training or background in visual art. Plus, I was drunk when I took these shots, not that it takes all that much wine to make me woozy.
You're not alone. A lot of people hate HDR because it looks so...lame. That's cool with me.
I take regular pics that are lame, too, if that's any comfort.
So it *does* look kinda illustrated. It certainly doesn't look entirely real. But it's not trying to look "real" exactly, but it really looks exactly how I see it. Or, maybe how I can see it if I squint.
As far as the lame factor is concerned, well, I'm sure as hell no professional photographer and I have no training or background in visual art. Plus, I was drunk when I took these shots, not that it takes all that much wine to make me woozy.
You're not alone. A lot of people hate HDR because it looks so...lame. That's cool with me.
I take regular pics that are lame, too, if that's any comfort.
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by michael holden
"Last night, [two of our friends] were mugged and assaulted in front of Thompson's Point of View at 23rd and Union," read the e-mail. "Thankfully they are OK and were not physically harmed. However, this is UTTER BULLSHIT and is totally UNACCEPTABLE and I believe that it's time for some HOT HOT BURNER NEIGHBORHOOD REPO ACTION... We're going to send three clear messages: First, we are not afraid of punk-ass thugs. We don't need to look 'tough' to be strong. Second, there are a metric shit-ton of us around here and we care about our friends and our neighborhood. The thugs have already lost, it's time for them to go elsewhere. [Third,] our fire-breathing art car(s) with the Mackie sound system(s) beat your boom-mobile any day of the week.... The poor thugs who messed with [our friends] will never show their faces here again, and the story they'll tell all their little rock-smokin' friends about how they tried to roll these two easy-lookin' kids and then the next day a hundred of their friends were on the corner would go a long way.... Clearly, we need to make a long-term effort to make ourselves visible in this community."
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"Last night, [two of our friends] were mugged and assaulted in front of Thompson's Point of View at 23rd and Union," read the e-mail. "Thankfully they are OK and were not physically harmed. However, this is UTTER BULLSHIT and is totally UNACCEPTABLE and I believe that it's time for some HOT HOT BURNER NEIGHBORHOOD REPO ACTION... We're going to send three clear messages: First, we are not afraid of punk-ass thugs. We don't need to look 'tough' to be strong. Second, there are a metric shit-ton of us around here and we care about our friends and our neighborhood. The thugs have already lost, it's time for them to go elsewhere. [Third,] our fire-breathing art car(s) with the Mackie sound system(s) beat your boom-mobile any day of the week.... The poor thugs who messed with [our friends] will never show their faces here again, and the story they'll tell all their little rock-smokin' friends about how they tried to roll these two easy-lookin' kids and then the next day a hundred of their friends were on the corner would go a long way.... Clearly, we need to make a long-term effort to make ourselves visible in this community."
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Just a quick note, Dominic Holden: You really should probably point out that a lot of your brothers flickr set are NSFW. Just showed my coworker that photo. We wanted to see if he had shot any similar photos and were a little surprised when we went to check out the rest of his flickr albums.
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