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I wish there weren't so many people near it, but... meh...

crazy thing, what is it?

FanaticX wrote:Yes this place looks like a perfect setting for a fantasy flick. Now all we need are a few elves running around with their bows and a big ugly monster lunging out from the water trying to eat a hobbit.

I love this HDR pic.....how does the original look like?

saturn wrote:crazy thing, what is it?

It's called Cloud Gate, in Millennium Park in Chicago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_Gate
http://www.millenniumpark.org/artandarc ... _gate.html

Of course, now my photo will suck, because I'm sure there are plenty of better pics of it out there. !

saturn wrote:I love this HDR pic.....how does the original look like?

The original looks like crap. Blue cast...muted colours...no contrast...

werldhed wrote: It's called Cloud Gate, in Millennium Park in Chicago.

Of course, now my photo will suck, because I'm sure there are plenty of better pics of it out there. !

If I were you, I'd go back there during better light and take dozens more photos- exploring the reflective surface for unique POVs. Crazy blob of chrome that thing is!

i took a picture of a duck today

werldhed wrote:Cool, thanks. I thought you needed multiple exposures to do that, but apparently not...

It works better if you take multiple exposures from the camera (setting AEB or possibly from RAW for example) but you can do it from JPG too.

Nice picture, what is it?

Since HDR is the new hot thing, I've been experimenting with it this morning.

I just discovered that my Nikon D50 can auto-bracket an exposure with 3 stops (lol noob me). So using 3 differently exposed jpegs, I've combined it into an HDR image with Photomatrix (Photoshop CS2 can do the trick too I believe). It wasn't difficult and the result is quite nice without looking too artificial. I'm going to shoot a lot more photos :-)

HDR photo of my living room


Normal exposure (details in the room too dark, outside washed out)


Underexposure -2 stops


Overexposure +2 stops

FanaticX wrote:

saturn wrote:I love this HDR pic.....how does the original look like?

The original looks like crap. Blue cast...muted colours...no contrast...

heh.....great job enhancing it

fucking hdr will kill us all

join the high dynamic side dominic

i can't be bothered to take photos, never mind 7 at a time.

You can create an HDR images from a single RAW file. You'll have less dynamic range, but often it can look good too.

Here's an example, same view of my room. There's a bit more noise in the resulting image and it's less saturated.

HDR image from a single raw file



HDR image from 3 differently exposed jpegs

i know all about hdr mate. i'm hoping the fad will pass soon.

ok grumpy.....here's an old fashioned low dynamic range photo taken in a mountain cabin 2 kilometers above Innsbruck, Austria last week.

that image bringt up some memories. i was stuck in that valley in 2005 for two days due to heavy rain. the freeway was partly destroyed, etc. we were in a traffic jam for about 7 hours and only made about 30km. then we slept next to some truckers on a parking lot.

God god I want to move to Europe.

not all our houses look as gay as saturns

not everybody here looks as gay as splish

*finds house in Zell am See*

Pext wrote:that image bringt up some memories. i was stuck in that valley in 2005 for two days due to heavy rain. the freeway was partly destroyed, etc. we were in a traffic jam for about 7 hours and only made about 30km. then we slept next to some truckers on a parking lot.

It was about 15 degrees celcius in Innsbruck, I've been sitting in the sun drinking beer wearing only a shirt and trousers. The past ten years there has been snow in the city. What an inconvenient truth.

Flughafen Innsbruck


View from 2300 meters


Old city center

was that last one taken in the 50s?

no, last week