As the evening sun faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
-Deep Thought of the day by Jack Handey
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I’ve been taking pictures

Posted: March 31st, 2009 | Author: Barry | 3 Comments »

I’ve been playing around with Photomatix. While it’s very easy to make a good picture look worse using HDR tonemapping, it’s also possible to make three bad pictures look amazing. The tone mapping makes it possible to do smash the rules and do ridiculous things like shooting directly into the sun. The software also does a great job with realigning photos when you shoot sans tripod, which is the only way I shoot.

So I’ve been hitting a bunch of Los Angeles landmarks to take pictures. I’m very happy with how they turned out.
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Santa Monica Pier

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Santa Monica Pier

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Portal of the Folded Wings, Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery

Downtown Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles

Sepulveda Dam Park
Sepulveda Dam