A client suggested I do a personal class on HDR work on his photography. I think that might be fun. For those that don’t know what HDR is, it stands for “High Dynamic Range” — photography speak for what is essentially taking multiple shots of the same image in different exposures and then combining them into one shot.
The result is you get an image that should look closer to what your eyes really saw when you took the photograph (you don’t get skies that look all white and blown out, nor do you get subjects that are all shadowy and dark)
There are people that argue back and forth about whether that’s considered “photography” at all. I don’t think it’s necessary a bad thing though…it’s just another creative method out there among many. I’ve goofed around with it enough to know how to do it…I think it’d be fun to actually try to set up a HDR bootcamp and actually get some real results one day.
Toxel’s got some good examples of what you can do with HDR. Some of them might be too fake looking but overall they’re fun to look at. (via: Toxel.com)
OK this is rather cool…a bit of a giant leap in interface design akin to the fancy computers they showed in the movies like Minority Report or Matrix.
Who knows, maybe in the near future we’ll be doing all our Photoshop designs using these giant hand gestures. It’ll be like I can work and get Wii-Fit type exercise at the same time!
This would do wonders for the adult entertainment industry…but they’d have to figure out one-hand gestures. Imagine the nausea. *snicker*
Here’s the first video we’ve shot for our band Miss Buddha. It’s a bit of an experiment for the guys down at the media center down at KCC to see how ready they would be to do projects like these…so the lighting and video style was completely on the cuff. I like how it turned out though, a good raw feeling to it.
World’s smallest hamburger? At a risk of sounding very effeminate, that’s gotta be the most adorable looking hamburger I’ve ever seen. I like the little puff of smoke coming off of the grill too! The little oil spots, the tiny sesame’s…OH, my head will explode from the cuteness. How would you order a “Super-sized” mini hamburger meal though?
This was found on DarkRoastedBlend’s collection of Food Art.
Now I’m craving a good burger today….Kua Aina’s here I come!
Beautiful artwork by an artist named Joshua Petker. I really like the colors and expressions he has for his subjects. I guess why it has this particular flavor is because of his graffiti art background. I’d hang some of these up on my walls…
Pffft, I’m all talk though, 4 months here in my new place and we’ve yet to hang anything up yet. I gotta start decorating this place.
I really underestimated how uncomfortable it would be after a surgery. No, the cuts and stuff I expected…but after my ear surgery the doc jams a cotton swab (feels like it’s the size of a giant rubber tire) into my ear canal where I have to wear it for a few days until he takes it out later this week. I don’t know if it was the procedure or this thing in my ear, but my neck has been tense for days and I have difficulty opening my mouth more then an inch to eat anything.
Meanwhile I only just developed enough guts to look at the scar in the back of my ear to see how it looks and it definitely looks like a long pink catepillar has clawed it’s way behind my ear. It’s really gross looking, I nearly fell over from the sight.
Yeah right about now my wife would be rolling her eyes. I’m definitely a drama queen and I haven’t been easy to live with this past week. On a positive note it’s been a good excuse to take a few “days off” of work and I’ve treated myself a lot with healthy dosages of candy and ice cream to liften the mood. Boy can’t wait till they pull this swab out of my ear.
On a lighter note I’ll be trying to return to work this week. Catching up with clients and the students of my class. Thanks to all of you for your understanding and well-wishes!
Day after surgery….not too bad. I’m up and about but I got this huge Frankenstein gauze around my head and a blue cup covering my ear. This would have made a fantastic Halloween costume last week. The surgery itself was still pretty freaky. It got pretty serious for me when they had me in those smock things with the blue booties & started plugging needles and IVs in my arm. Meanwhile my wife is talking nurse talk with the medical staff walking in to take care of me. Her eyes lighted up with the doc said he might be able to take a shot of the inside of my ear for her. /sigh.
After that it was just waiting and waiting. When you finally go into the procedure there’s nothing much else you can do. One second you’re looking around staring at the room and the next second the anesthesia kicks in — lights out! 3 hours later I groggily wake up.
Best parts about waking up? (1) my wife was there right next to me squeezing my hand, (2) my surgery was pau, and (3) I already hear that Obama won! WHOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOO!
I have a little minor ear surgery scheduled for this following Tuesday. I am a little freaked out as anyone would be with the prospect of surgery, but doctors expect it shouldn’t take too long to heal and I’ll have a full recovery.
As a result I will be unreachable for a good part of the coming week. I DO have 2 or 3 client commitments I will try my best to jam on this weekend before my surgery. The rest of you, I’ll be fine in a few days I just suspect it’ll be just slightly more uncomfortable getting together for any meetings for a couple weeks.
If you have any emergencies in the following week. Please call and leave a message or email me. I’ll do my best to help remotely or try to find someone else who can help you temporarily. Thank you for your kokua.
To my ART 112 class: I’ll tell you on Monday what you can do for Wednesday when I’m not there. You guys will be alright!
Halloween night (this Friday evening) my band Miss Buddha will be playing at the ArtAfterDark event at the Academy of Arts along with other bands like 86 List. Sounds like they have some kind of punk meets art type thing going on. I’m quite looking forward to this one since I’ve never actually performed at the Academy of Arts before…it’s right down the street from where I live. How CONVEEENIENT!
Come down and check us out of you have nowhere to go on Halloween. Costumes optional. (I can’t find one myself). We’re scheduled to be performing from 7:35pm - 8pm
On a side note, we have a video we made for the band that’s up on Facebook right now. I’ll post it here after we find a good place that would host this video. I think it’s too big right now for YouTube.
