Knuckledragger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfqL7bwx9fs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCVWFp3if5E

I generally only use the high and very high light smoothing settings in Photomatix. There are rare occasions where I'll use the medium setting. The lower two are garbage. They remind of processing HDR in Photoshop CS2. This image is the result of an elaborate workflow. I combined three images in Photomatix, and genrated an .hdr file. I then opened it with DynamicPhoto HDR (which objected, but loaded it anyway.) I spent quite a bit of time adjusting the tone mapping in DPHDR and saved it as a jpeg. Then I worked it over pretty thoroughly in Photoshop. The end result is kind of bizarre, but not without merit. The effect of using Photomatix for the HDR process instead of DPHDR seems to be a lot less CA, a bit less noise. Likewise, the image was much higher in contrast. I'm not sure if I like that last bit.

...and now for something complete different. I'm a big fan of the early 80s hardcore band Minor Threat. The cover of their earliest 7" single (and several collections on tape and CD) features this image of singer Ian MacKaye: It's impossible to know Minor Threat without thinking of this picture. It's so iconic that Nike did made an "homage" to it for their own nefarious purposes: This is the original cover to Minor Threat's last official release, "Salad Days." I've always had mixed feelings about it, there are some decent songs (like Cashing In) but Minor Threat don't kick nearly as much ass when they slow down. I've been looking at that image for about two decades now, and I only recently noticed that it was taken with a fisheye lens. Some creative snooping dug up this uncropped original: I love the skateboard and the rotary push mower. This is another image from the same era, taken with a conventional rectilinear lens: Looks like Ian got mad at that front step. Thus ends this evening's mini-lesson on the Photography of Minor Threat.

okayfine....

The BA K-47.

Seource.

Illogical sauce.

It's a scene from Hot Rod. Shane MacGowan finally got new teef.

The new project by The Knife, finally in my hands. So far I love it. In related news, water found to be wet, prone to rolling downhill.

Now that's just odd. I was blissfully unaware of keyboard cat until about 5 minutes ago, when I got him by that AIM worm that connects to unsuspecting users. I was connected to a Yahoo user and the message I got was "Play him off, keyboard cat." The Y! user got something about me being suicidal and needing help.

There was no one behind her. The wall of the nightclub is only about two feet back, and I use fairly tight framing. The dancefloor is to the right of her.

I took this photo at the club where I sometimes work. I'm rather pleased with it.

I've had "Drive/Driven" stuck in my head for days.