I have a photography exhibit that is currently on display at the Mississippi Art Center (former Mississippi Museum of Art) until August 17. The show is a collection of my landscape and cityscape photographs from throughout the Southeast. From September 8 through October 26 the exhibit will be on display at Mississippi State University’s Art Gallery on the second floor of the Student Union. (The MSU show will contain a few more images than the Jackson show.) All of the photographs in the show are printed as 18″x18″ editions of 10.
This project is supported in part by funding from the Mississippi Arts Commission, a state agency, and in part, from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Special thanks to the Greater Jackson Arts Council for their help in organizing the show.
Continue reading ‘Ides of the South’
I’ve previously posted about HDR here on the blog, but it has always regarded taking multiple exposures of the same scene and combining them. This time I have been experimenting with using multiple raw conversions of a high contrast portrait to create an image devoid of any noise artifacts (or maybe devoid of most artifacts). Both of the above images were created from three conversions of the same raw file, using 2 stops of exposure difference between each file. I then converted the resulting hdr images down to 16 bits using Local Adaptation and curves. I would specify the radius and threshold settings, but I have found the radius varies with resolution, and threshold varies with each image (tending to be between .5 and 2).
The lighting for this was a large softbox camera right slightly above the subjects eyelevel, a black nonreflector camera left (as close to the subject as I could get without it in frame), and a kicker light behind the subject camera left feathering onto the background about a foot above the subjects head.
There are a couple of things that are making me slow on the uptake this season: 1) my dissertation, 2) le tour, and 3) its JULY!
Continue reading ‘Action!’
Over the past couple of weeks I have begun more and more enamored with taking a photograph that has one section totally blown out while another is lost in shadow. On Friday I went on a walk, shortly after a rain, in which this idea expanded and morphed. I thought it might be interesting to show the progression. I don’t think that any of these are earth shattering (though I do like a few a lot). Continue reading ‘Evolution of an idea’
I mentioned (in a comment) that I had some shots from Disney, which has a fabulous fireworks display. Here are the few that I have access to at the moment. Continue reading ‘More fireworks’
Wah took some wonderful photographs of fireworks. I have been trying for years to get good pictures of fireworks. This process might be improved if I used an actual SLR instead of my point and shoot on manual settings. Still, some interesting things came of it. Continue reading ‘Independence’
As I patiently wait for flexcolor to process twenty-seven-gajillion raw files into digital negatives (I use a dual-redundancy system, probably a pilot hangup) of the cutest miniature sumo wrestler ever, I figured I could tax the ole processor just a bit more for some small jpegs of fireworks. I looked at a few fireworks shots online today of fireworks that I think were from Laredo, TX or just across the border, which were magnificent displays of pyrotechnics. After seeing those shots it made me appreciate the Mississippi quality of the above shot a bit more; probably not the most impressive display of fireworks to be found in the metro area, but it has the right feeling.
Continue reading ‘Happy July!’
It was brought to my attention that I never posted images of Jerri’s cast glass pieces she created for the Nature Conservancy (I still think I did, but I can’t find any evidence of that . . .). So here are some shots of the awards at the banquet. Continue reading ‘Nature Conservancy Awards’
I was thinking of calling this “Friedlander-a-go-go,” believing that “Friedlander can suck it” was too antagonistic. Continue reading ‘Power Lines’
It appears that I have been lax. Not only did a tropical storm appear without a comment from me but this is the second storm of the season. What can I say, I’m kind of on vacation. Continue reading ‘Bertha’
