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No longer do you need to drown your sorrows from the past 8 years. With the time almost up, change has come in the world. I do not have very much else to say other than I am happy. Which means a heck of a lot to me. I feel as though I can dust off my shoulders and raise my head a little bit higher.
"It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break"
"What the cynics fail to understand is that the ground has shifted beneath them -- that the stale political arguments that have consumed us for so long no longer apply."
-President Barack Obama
I've been trying to "perfect" the ways of HDR. I personally find the crunchy, silver glowed photos developed by cutting off the light smoothing in Photomatix, Photoshop, or Lightroom is less photography than it is some kind of manipulation of it. However, I think if done right and by right I mean that it's simply used as a way to bring out highlights, I think that it can have a grand effect.
I finally got it. The Canon Rebel XSi. I have been dying for a dSLR since I really got into photography and it's no let down. Sure, you have to change lenses for different effects but when the standard kit lens is a 3X zoom 18mm(wide anglish)-55mm f3.5-5.6 then you're basically set for anything I would've been doing in a point and shoot. Even the zoom is accounted for. I was shooting at 7.2 megapixels and now I'm at 12.2. Except for the far end of that zoom range I basically can just crop down the picture to the size I was shooting earlier and still have all that juicy detail.
It's freedom like I've never experienced. RAW imaging really does give you that much more for data information and post processing is a breeze with it now. There are so many options I can barely keep up with them but I'm tackling them fast (only had it a few hours).
It is supposed to, unfortunately, rain the next few days but I'm doing some concert photography tomorrow night and hopefully some city shots if I can! So you'll see plenty of photos up and running come Saturday and Sunday.
This was taken on a company picnic where I work at Cummins-Allison. They actually have a pretty nice, green campus where it's not building habited. It's my third attempt an HDR and, in my opinion, my best. Let me know what you think though.
And I SWEAR the minute I have free time I'm putting up the archives.
EDIT: It looks better/more complete if you view it large, so click the pic.
I love pictures of the moon. It's as simple as that. This Wednesday was supposed to have the largest moon (because of the solstice coming up). It didn't. Actually it was disappointing but here's a shot from it anyways. It may not be my coolest/best moon shot but I've been going through HDR to try and see what it's limits are.
So this is my first go at an "HDR" image. That is a High Dynamic Range image. For more information go here! Basically it takes the highest amount of range in the photograph and puts it together in a huge image which is then scaled down and tone mapped. You can only do this for realsies with an HDR program either from Photoshop CS2 and on or with Photomatix. I used the latter. Then the post I had to do in Photoshop to get rid of the "double" image because I took the exposure breaks without a tripod.
I liked the end result. If you'd like I can post the original image so you can see a comparison. Speaking of comparisons. I just got a call from a legit recruiter asking me to join a firm close to school for nearly 10 more dollars an hour than I'm currently getting paid. There's two things though. I just accepted and am currently working a different job that I do like, and it maybe a full time position which most likely wouldn't work during the school year. Gah, it's not even an offer but more of a hey here's this out there.
Oh well, lemme know what you think about the picture or give me advice on my job.
