Human Metal

Wolverine, by T. Wide-angles are cool, but like everything else, it’s easy to overuse. But in a way, isn’t regular, >= 50mm range also highly used in many images? Or it’s an exception because they are the “standard”? I don’t think it matters. In the end, what we photographers are after are arts. And through [...]

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Norway

POCC as Norway. The more HHDR I do the more I discover about the technique. One thing I realized from this past shoot was that, to produce clean HDR, it’s important to set the ISO to the lowest possible, e.g. ISO 100, to avoid the occasional high image noise produced after merging those pictures together. [...]

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Gambit

Gambit, by Em. I think it’s Totally. Awesome. So this past GK I didn’t take as many pictures of as many people I wanted, It was just kind of a more about hanging out rather than doing photo ops, but I still did 2 mini shoots with Em, T, Mary, and POCC & Aya, as [...]

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Poker-X

X-Men’s Gambit, by Em. I didn’t visualize this in my mind when I took the three exposures, but by merging 2 exposures rather than 3 into a HDR image, I got this. Makes sense, though, because the +1 that shows most of the detail in the shadowed area is in the formula, and as a [...]

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Space Needle

What’s the benefit of having a cosplay gathering at a popular tourism location? You get to take pictures of both. This, was the case for January 2010′s Gasukan, and I very much enjoyed taking pictures of the Seattle center, and particularly the Space Needle, albeit the fact that there are probably millions of pictures of [...]

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