I took a bike ride this evening and wound up at Kubota Garden, on the hill between Rainier Beach and Renton. This place needs further photographic exploration.
I posted some info about Kubota two years ago, the first time I went there.
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on May 16, 2008 at 7:06 am Nic wrote:
That place is fun to photograph. I went a few months ago: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlaunceford/tags/kubotagarden/
on May 16, 2008 at 10:35 pm tvp wrote:
The colors you are evoking are incredible. The difference from two years ago is two light years. The one thing that gets me is the sky. It was not grey that day. It was definitely a beatiful blue, also the weird halo around the trees, both remnants from a new technique you’re using, right? (I liked that effect on your house though!)
tvp
on May 16, 2008 at 10:55 pm Doug wrote:
Yes, exactly: HDR remnants. There are ways to reduce that effect, but I sort of like it sometimes and the quickest thing is to just generate an HDR and not change a thing. That’s what I did with these. As for the grey sky, that’s because the HDR uses the darkest exposure for the bright sky, combined with the brightest exposure for dark things up close. Like the flowers — that’s how they get so vivid.
It’s not “real” in that it’s three exposures, but I’m convinced that as soon as camera processors can do it, we’ll have cameras that shoot a raw image, expose it three different ways, combine them into an HDR, and do it all in real time. And I think some folks will be willing to pay for that.
Great pictures, Nic. I love the black&white trees. And the kung fu glasses, of course.