Knuckledragger

I used to read that magazine when I was in highschool. I think there might be a box full of old issues in my mother's basement. There was another publication that was much shorter lived called Audio-Video Interiors. The gear featured in it was always as Serious (I distinctly remember a beautiful NYC apartment that had a surround system featuring five Bose cube speakers) but the photography was drool-inducing.

Thanks. All of those were taken with the EF 17-40mm F/4L.

Photomatix has been making me angry, so I've been checking out some of the competition. This is the first image I've done with Dynamic Photo HDR. The app itself is arm-gnawingly ugly, and reeks of its Windows/CrossOver origins. Furthermore, its controls are alien and difficult to use. All of that said, it made a decent end product from the source images I fed it, where Photomatix 3.1.3 only produced crap. I don't think Dynamic Photo HDR is going to replace Photomatix in my HDR workflow, but it looks like it has some potential to work with troublesome source files. I do wish that it was slightly (massively) better coded, and at least passed EXIF info. This image was made with three exposures and not post-processed at all. Twilight over Moody Bridge Road in Hadley. Made from one raw exposure in Dynamic Photo HDR, and cleaned up in Photoshop. I've processed this shot previously in Photomatix and Photoshop. This time I ran it through DynamicPhoto HDR, on the "Ultra-Contrast" setting and futzed with the controls a little bit. The image looks a bit like what the tone compressor function in Photomatix produces. I still find DPHDR to be seriously counter-intuitive and juniorized, especially compared to Photomatix. That said, it isn't nearly as frustrating as Photomatix has been since version 2.5. The color saturation is a little lurid in this one, but the hue is pretty good. Another of the "I forgot my tripod" series. I set my camera down on the railing of the upper level of the Edgartown wharf and fired off three bracketed exposures. I was unhappy with the results I got with them in Photomatix, so I ran them through DynamicPhoto HDR. I then worked over the HDR composite in Phototshop at length. I'm pretty happy with the end results.

Wow, I missed this thread while I was on MV. No, the OP doesn't mind. That room is filled with awesome. I just got back my second Mac C22 pre and Dynaco Dynakit Mark IV monoblock back from the repair guy. They're now sitting on my living room floor next to my other C22 and MC75. I have entirely too much to do today to futz with them, but if I'm not working in the nightclub this evening, I'm going to set the two C22s up and try out the phono pres. If I'm really motivated, I'll take some internal pix.

I read that as "Monkey Clip" and thought "WAT."

Reality: Perception:

Frightful sauce.

You're in the right place, then. Awkward sauce.

PEW PEW PEW. No, just the jpeg.

Oh, I have one of those.

Oh hai. I remember this thread.

Awww. When I got back from MV, the replacement infrared-converted Canon PowerShot G2 was waiting for me. Yesterday I had to drive to town to my pay my sodding property tax. The center of B'town is quite pretty in early may. Last year at this time I walked around for a couple hours and shot exposures that I converted to HDR. This time I had a go with the new IR camera: Metering with infrared is a trial-and-error process, at best. Also learning a new camera and the relative difference between what its meter says, what its LCD reports, and what the images actually look like on my (calibrated) Mac monitor is always a "learning experience." I had to work over all of these images in Photoshop pretty thoroughly to get decent results, but I'm pretty pleased with the final products.

Sorry to hear that Ken. My own father died when I was 24. As fate would have it, he left me four bottles of Lagavulin 16. I still have one left. I'll crack it open tonight and pour a glass in his honor.

Contrary to what Messers Limbaugh and Schwarzenegger have lead you to believe, it is difficult to avoid looking like an idiot with a cigar hanging out of one's mouth. Shot with my infrared-converted PowerShot G2, under a pair of 90W halogen floods. Straight out of the camera, no edits at all. Headphones are Koss Pro1s, cigar was a Partagas 1845 maduro something-or-other.

Damn, dude. I could use, uh, about half a dozen of those cases.

Hello head-case. Miss me? (Of course not.) I've been busy for the last few weeks on Marthas Vineyard. Did you know that preparing to blow up a house is even more difficult than preparing to rent one? A pity they won't let me do both... While I was there I had a lot of fun taking pictures: Made with three exposures in Photomatix ...twice, and then blended in Photoshop. It took a lot of futzing to get the ghostly look I wanted for the trees, and balancing that with the reflection of the clouds. A 10 second exposure turns the moon into the sun. The Edgartown lighthouse is in the foreground. Twilight over Jernegan pond. Made with three exposure in Photomatix, and cleaned up in Photoshop. I spent the better part of forever converting this shot from color to black & white, and then toning it. Edgartown's South Beach. Made from one raw exposure in Photomatix, and worked over extensively in Photoshop. I foolishly forgot my tripod, so I perched my 30D on a pier piling, turned its drive mode to the fastest setting and fired off three bracketed exposures. Processed in Photomatix and worked over extensively in Photoshop. ~3 1/2 minute exposure. The orange glow is not the dawn, it's light from the mainland. Fun with sun stars: ~45 second exposure of a deserted downtown Edgartown. The path to South Beach. Made from one raw exposure.

Lots and lots of Mythbusters on DVD.