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Saturday, October 6, 2012
"Pure Food Fish Market" Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Thursday, April 12, 2012
"Alder Lake" - Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Thursday, January 5, 2012
The Seattle Space Needle - Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
"Pike Place Market III" - Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
"Palouse Wall" - Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
"Post Alley Tunes" Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
"Seattle's Underground Bathroom" Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
Seattle's first buildings were wooden. In 1889, a cabinetmaker accidentally overturned and ignited a glue pot. An attempt to extinguish it with water, he spread the burning grease-based glue all over the place. The fire chief was out of town, and although the volunteer fire department responded, they made the mistake of trying to use too many hoses at once. They never recovered from the subsequent drop in water pressure, and the Great Seattle Fire destroyed 25 city blocks.
When they reconstructed their buildings, merchants and landlords knew that the ground floor would eventually be underground, and the next floor up would be the new ground floor. There was very little decoration on the doors and windows of the original ground floor, but extensive decoration on the new ground floor.
Once the new sidewalks were complete, building owners moved their businesses to the new ground floor, although merchants carried on business in the lowest floors of buildings that survived the fire, and pedestrians continued to use the underground sidewalks lit by the glass cubes (still seen on some streets) embedded in the grade-level sidewalk above.
Two years before the 1909 World’s Fair in Seattle (Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition), the city condemned the Underground for fear of pneumonic plague. The basements were left to deteriorate, or were used as storage. Some of the areas became illegal flophouses for the homeless, gambling halls, speakeasies, and opium dens.
Only a small portion of the Seattle Underground has been restored and made safe and accessible to the public on guided tours.
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What the heck is HDR Photography?
The following information is from USACanon.com:
What is this talk about HDR all about?
High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography is something you hear digital photography enthusiasts speaking about a lot these days. Basically, it means combining two or more images — of the exact same scene — taken at different exposure levels into one finished image. One dark exposure can capture detail in bright areas of the scene, while a second, lighter exposure can give details in mid-tones and shadows. Combined, the two can give a finished image with far more overall tonal detail than is sometimes possible to capture with even the finest digital SLRs on the market today. This is especially true in very high-contrast scenes, such as scenics in bright sunlight, and indoor shots taken in the daytime with bright windows in the scene.
As old as photography is the search for the ideal light. Part of this search for light is related to the fact that some scenes just look better in certain (often warmer) light. But even more it is related to the fact that film and now modern digital DSLRs can only capture a certain dynamic range.
The Dynamic Range (DR) of a DSLR or film is measured by the ratio of the brightest detail in the highlights and the darkest detail in the shadows. The detail in the highlights is limited by pure highlight clipping and the detail in the shadows is limited in modern DSLRs by the noise level (or film grain).
It is common to measure the DR of cameras in the range of Exposure Values (E.V.) spanned, E.V. being often expressed as f-stops (even though photographers usually vary the exposure time rather than the aperture. Some data can illustrate this:
Black & White Negative Film
10-11 f-stops, or a DR ratio of about 1,000:1 – 2,000:1
Slide Film
6-7 f-stops, or a ratio of about 100:1
DSLRs (in 2008)
8-10 f-stops, or a ratio of about 250:1 to 1000:1
Daylight Scene (with full sun)
12-15 f-stops, or a ratio of 5,000:1 to 50,000:1 (depending on preferred amount of shadow detail)
Room Interior, with outside view from window into full daylight
At least 17 f-stops, or a ratio greater than 100,000:1
We have the following options:
- Control the light (only practical in the studio via flash or lights)
- Shoot only in low-contrast situations
- Overcome the limitation of a single exposure
Exposure Merge
Of course all three options are valid. This article concentrates on the last option. How can we overcome the limitations of our cameras. Because the problem is as old as photography we also had solutions for as long. We capture two or more separate photographs (from underexposed to overexposed) of the same scene and combine the images into a new photo. The classic solution is called Exposure Blending. Master photographers did this manually in the darkroom with enlargers, and today the same is done in the digital world in Photoshop™. Seamless manual blending is hard work because of the issue of:
- Aligning the source images
- Masking the images to get seamless blended results
Most digital photography enthusiasts’ first efforts at combining separate images into one finished HDR image is done in an image-editing software program such as Adobe Photoshop™. Using features such as layers and various masking techniques, it’s possible to get excellent results, if the user’s technique from the camera to the computer has been sound.
However, today there are quite a few specialized software applications (one that I’ve had excellent results with is Photomatix Pro) that can are designed primarily for the single task of merging two or more exposures into a single image, which is LDR (Low Dynamic Range), but containing the details in highlights and shadows of the exposures from the sources images. There are different merging algorithms with different strengths and weaknesses.
Capturing multiple images with your camera and combining them into finished tonemapped HDR images is quite simple today. Getting the right artistic results will as always take some time practice and experimentation.
Notes of caution:
Movement is the enemy of HDR. This means that you have to watch for everything that moves. Here is a list of common ghosting* candidates:
- People
- Cars, bicycles, and other vehicles
- Larger animals (dogs, cats,...)
- Small animals (birds, butterflies,..)
- Clouds
- Water
- Flags
- Trees and plants in wind
Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
Hot Air Balloons - Fine Art Photography by David Patterson
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