Tone Mapping n stuffs...??? In PA...

So... my friend gave me a Pro version of this program... 1 of the typical programs, for the HDR stuffs...

I have no idea WHAT THE HECK I'm doing... the Pro version is unlike the evaluation versions... and, I am entirely clueless as to how to do a batch in Photoshop... I also don't always like the results people get with the Photoshop stuffs...

Er... um... sorry if these suck.... or if you hate 'em....

Anyways, it was still fun to play with the program... which also crashed my comp multiple times.

Um... so, here's my stinky tone mapping, and other such stuffs.... I guess:

 A lot of these it took me hours to tweek. I'd shot so many exposures, but because my tripod is SO friggin' OLD, and my remote at the time was on a short wire/chord there was a wobble. So, many of my exposures were just out right useless, and went into THE TRASH! Sometimes, as much as 30 frames, just TRASHED!

 I did 2 major photo shoots behind The Philadelphia Art Museum. On the day I shot the ones above, I really started to chocke the life out of that battery... it was already dying, but, man, I seriously tortures it for my art!

Something I often complain about is the OVER USE of certain filters, usually I see most folks OVER USE the UV filter... and ALSO the Polarized Filter...

That's me speaking as AN ARTIST... since Photographers of the college degree sort have entirely different opinions of Photography than ARTISTS, or Film Makers do... But, in my opinion the the UV filter doesn't necessarily "give you better colors" like the packaging on virtually ALL UV Filters claim/allege...

Having said (or written) that, if CAN give you better BLUE color exposure in MID DAY, especially in THE SUMMER even if you're shooting on a Landscape aperture... and... um... yeah... I gotta admit that NOT ONLY do I have a TENDENCY to UNDER USE the UV Filter, because I TEND to have a HATEFUL BIAS towards it...

In which case.... in retrospect, I think this shoot would've benefited a LOT more if I'd actually used the UV Filter....
And, in further conclusion... hence the reason why THESE SUCK! 

Marcus Hook somewhere... some abandoned factory... I actually shot SOOOOO many frames of these... I haven;t even played with them all... but, the program seems to want to "match the clouds" more than "matching the features"... which screws up the batches... It's weird because I've done clouds/sunset batches before in a lesser sophisticated program by the same company... without ANY problems... 

Also, these batches crash my comp alot.

I got more... but, haven;t played with them yet...

What's great about HDR stuffs, is how you can see stuff you wouldn't even notice in the regular photos... Like, in these, the graffiti is just SO noticeable!

Anyways... sorry they suck...

*dies*

Sunset Lovers

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In addition to the several photos I shot behind the Philadelphia Art Museum, there was a couple that hung out for a Romantic sunset gazing. So, I just kept shooting my photos WITH them in the frames.

Compare these to my other Photos behind the Art Museum at Sunset: 


Same day


The previous week

Sunset Behind The Philadelphia Museum of Art: Schuylkill River (With Humidity)

Sunset Behind The Philadelphia Museum of Art:
Schuylkill River 費城! 

The gazebo I shot from is actually called The Mercury Pavilion.

It's dated as 2007, however, I used to frequent the gazebo since 1998, and I can tell you both gazebos are OLD! Older than 2007! 


So, even tho' it's a week AFTER the ideal week to shoot from, and the humidity was about 44% (higher than my last photo shoot) I still got some reds. I would've preferred higher humidity, and also last week, but there's always next year!

If the humidity was as high as it was a few days ago, I could've shot much more reds  in the sunset. But, oh well, that's the nature if it all.

The clouds worked out really well for these.

This first one here, I used a filter. The rest are natural.

 Compare these photos to my previous photo shoot behind the Art Museum.

Misc. Philadelphia Photos

Just a number of Photos of interest throughout Philadelphia in the past week.

July 4th, Philadelphia Art Museum Fairmount Park Block Party. Various Musicians/artists playing live. Literally ON the Ben Franklin Parkway street.

 Block party in the day time on Ben Franklin Parkway.

July 4th, 2012 

 

 Carnival on Ben Franklin Parkway July 4th 2012

 Logan Square, Center City Philadelphia,
July 2nd 2012

July 2nd Behind the Art Museum at the LARGE Gazebo by the River.

I had an interview in Manayunk in the morning, and I was stuck in these clothes all day, sweating my life away.

Regardless, after I went to Starbucks, I got majorly bloated due to hormones. :-/

Found the drinking fountain on the other side of the Parkway AFTER I desperately needed it, and spent my money on salty soda.

I also didn;t go to any of the Occupy protests. I thought about it... but, no...

July 4th Art Museum Firework 費城!

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Well, I guess this is the best I could do. I had a REALLY great time!

The musicians/artists playing live:

Lauren Hill, Queen Latifa, Darrel Hall, The Roots, Jonas Brothers, and MORE. But, I couldn't get close enough to shoot any.

BIGGEST block party EVER!




The humidity was PERFECT for photography! RICH SATURATED COLORS, full atmospheric density. 52%+ humidity

 

 

I had no control over who's heads were in the frame. So, whatever. They're all shot on manual on various exposure lengths.  If you want to look at more check 'em here. 

Anyways, still learning...