HDR + Photoshop

Thursday, 3 November 2011

I've tried taking some more HDR photos.

This one i did earlier but i also converted to a vector image.
I'm starting to get a little better processing HDR photos but i still have a while before they look they way i want them too. But i am getting better with Photoshop. Just in changing the contrast, color, saturation, levels....

Here's some old photos that i've recently improved. This photo originally came out very dull looking. I increased the color and contrast to make it appear the way the Grand Canyon really looked that day.
Here's a picture i took in Arizona. I did a bunch of stuff to this as well and ended up changing it to black and white.

My favorite sculpture, The Bean in Chicago.


This one i didn't do a whole lot to. This is actually how Sedona looks.
I've found that after a while i do the same 4 or 5 things to most of the photos in Photoshop. Here's sunrise at Lake Erie
Pictures like these of sunrises or sunsets are difficult because of the huge change in light. Some areas are dark and some are very bright. I tried to use Photoshop to get a good balance.

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Work Trip to Denver, Reno and LA

Thursday, 19 August 2010

This was as good as a work trip can get, 4 days 7 flights in 3 cities, Denver, Reno and Rancho Cucamonga California (yes i know it's a funny name). Denver was 95 degrees but the mountains and downtown were fun to see. Here's a walkway crossing over to downtown Denver.
In Reno i stayed downtown so at night i walked around the streets and the casino's.
In the morning after work i took the rental car up the mountains a few thousand feet and had a great view of the city below.
Reno can best be summed up as a Mini Las Vegas. Instead of lots of people there's only a few hundred, instead of lots of casino's there's only about 3, instead of a main street that takes forever to walk down, the street's only a couple of blocks. But there was the same number of old fat people riding around on those motorized scooters.

The only betting i did was put $10 on MSU and the Lions to win their first games. MSU ended up winning by 24 points. We'll see how the lions first game goes.
Next i flew over part of the Grand Canyon to Phoenix Arizona. It was a really clear day and i could see for at least a hundred miles.

Downtown Phoenix

That flight was great until we hit some turbulence before landing and the lady behind me "filled up" at least 2 barf bags. Once again my lack of a sense of smell payed off.

I had a 2 hour lay-over then flew to California. The next day they said the high temp was 107 although the whole day my car said it was 120 outside.
After working i had a few hours to kill until my 11pm flight home. I tried to go for a hike in the mountains. After about a quarter mile i realized that walking up hills when it's 110 degrees and sunny isn't a good idea, so i went back. It felt like i was breathing into a hair dryer on high. So i drove around some more, saw all the smog people talk about in California and realized how much i hate doing their mandatory U-turns at lights. I prefer "Michigan Left's."

But then i sat in the airport for a few hours, flew to Atlanta, had a 2 hour lay-over, then flew home and arrived at 9:30am the next morning. Except for the sitting around at airport terminals it was kind of fun.

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LV - AZ - LA - CO

Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Well i just got back from my almost 3 weeks of being on vacation. I don't really feel like typing out everything that happened so i'll just do a quick outline:

Las Vegas

• Walked up and down the strip several times and had a great time
• Went to the ACMA's, got to be seat fillers and part of Taylor Swift's song
• Went to an outdoor concert on Freemont street
• Stopped at the Grand Canyon on the drive to Arizona

Arizona

• Went to Sedona National Park
• Went hiking several days in Globe Arizona, somewhere between 4,000 and 8,000 ft

Los Angeles

• Went to an Dodgers game
• Got to be on the Price is Right show (airs May 27th)
• Went to Universal Studio

Colorado

• Went to Garden of the Gods, which is at the base of the Rocky's near Pikes Peak
• Went to the Sugarland concert

I guess some other things happened too, like being stopped by the police in Kansas. Apparently they thought we were drug traffickers, going from Arizona to Detroit. Luckily we were able to outsmarted them and get away.

That's about it.

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Trip Update

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

I'm still in Arizona but here are a couple of pictures from my trip so far. I'll be sure to post more when i get home in a week or so. As of right now i've walked the Las Vegas strip for a few days, went to a concert on Freemont Street in "old vegas" visited the Grand Canyon, and Sedona Arizona. Lots of walking.

Las Vegas



Grand Canyon



Sedona Arizona

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