[robertostallioni]

God alone knows both why and where I found this, or how I ended up posting it here but...click on the second pic.

[GCW]

http://[url=http://valleywag.com/tech/notag/marissa-mayers-laugh-249650.php[/url]

You referring to this?
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Weird shit, man.

[robertostallioni]

Yeah. But the 'Da Luca' has rendered me especially inept. Hey Ho. If I could only get my fat fingers to press the right

Ooops wrong image

[Bubba]

Ouch

[Zods Beard]

  That's very good.

[SA Chris]

Lovely.

[philo]

wow. amazing

[Bubba]

[slackline]

I saw a peanut stand, heard a rubber band,
I saw a needle that winked its eye.
But I think I will have seen everything
When I see an elephant breakdance.

Wicked kayak shot too.

[cofe]

http://www.karikuukka.com/peking2008/100m/

olympics panorama. pretty fly etc.

[philo]

WOW!
colin mcrae tribute....

http://www.worldcarfans.com/9080901.009/30-mile-subaru-convoy-honors-mcrae-with-two-world-records

[hongkongstuey]

maybe these hot sweaty HK summers ain't so bad..

[slackline]

Good to see people in advertising still have a sense of humor...



A bit on the story behind the poster here

[Drew]

I have to admit, I couldn't work out what was wrong with that previous pic for quite some time! 


Anyway, some funky looking icebergs



from: Somewhere

[unclesomebody]

This guy knows how to take images from a chopper/aeroplane. Seriously impressive, check out his site; http://www.jasonhawkes.com/

[Bubba]

A lovely HDR image - I know this is probably a daft question but how do you do HDR on moving subjects? Don't you need 3 or more bracketed pics?

[SA Chris]

That should be in the PS hall of shame. That bird looks like it's been glued on.

[Jim]

it must be for a HDR image

[Bubba]

Ah, here's the answer:

you're quite wrong. No composition work whatsoever has been done (I can share you the original RAW file). This is a single-exposure HDR -- tone-mapping has been performed for a single RAW file. There's nothing "fake" in it -- in this case the tone-mapping operator has done a 12->8 bit quantization. Had I used more exposures, I could've grown the number of bits to perhaps 13,14,15 -- but, as you said, multiple exposures don't work well with moving objects.

The reason why the bird looks a bit "pasted" is that I took a 12mm wide-angle lens and approached the (rather tame) bird very slowly -- I managed to get within inches of it before it took off. Wide-angle lenses aren't usually used for such close-up shots.

[Jim]

Is this guy a ninja? how did he get so close and take that shot with a 12m lens?

[Bubba]

Yes, very lucky or very tame bird!

His photostream is worth a look for other stuff too - i like this one:



So, anyone know if making an HDR image using the same .raw file give the same results as doing it from multiple exposures?

[Johnny Brown]

It gives similar results though the starting tonal range is smaller, so it's not really 'H'DR, more like 'M'DR. Basically, you process the raw file twice to give images optimized for highlights and shadows, and then combine. Rather more realistic results can be acheived by using other methods for the combination.

Just for the record, I find those shots offensive. Fucking awful. I think in ten year folk will look at much of this era of photography as a fucking joke.

[Bubba]

Cheers for the explanation.

Why do you find those photos so offensive? Those pics particularly or are you not a fan of HDR as a whole?

[Jaspersharpe]

I know nothing about photography (and due to this will not even try to justify/describe why) but I fully agree with JB on this.

[slackline]

I think the vast majority of HDR is overdone and looks tacky.

Very occasionally I'll come across one on flickr where its labelled up as HDR, but you couldn't tell, and I guess its the sort of shot that could have been achieved in-camera if the person snapping it had known how to use all the functions on the camera.

Either way, doesn't really matter what I think, if people like playing around with their pictures in that manner thats their business, no one forces me to look at their work.

Would love to know how those night-time pics Unc posted were done, either in a hot-air baloon on a very still evening, or one big fuck-off stabalising system from a helicopter!!