Posts Tagged ‘Photography’

Asphalt, empty lots and a train without hurry or schedule

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

July has been full of projects in all shapes and sizes and a few have finally dwindled to a close, so that now I can no longer put off another post. I have long been curious about Centralia, and over the 4th I was in Pennsylvania so we took some time to satisfy my curiosity. Only a few buildings are left. Mostly it consists of empty lots and withering asphalt. The mine still burns, evidenced only by tendrils of smoke, a few residents remain and it has become a drive-through curiosity.

A sad old road.

A sad old road.

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HDR: A hate love relationship

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

As a majority of internet users are at this very moment in the process of uploading a High Dynamic Range (HDR) image to Flicker, I will assume that most of you know what they are. For those few who do not know, simply put, they are a compositing of several images of the same subject with different exposures merged together using software such as Photomatrix or Photoshop. This process allows your to achieve neutral exposures throughout the image and otherwise improbable/impossible images with tone mapping.
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