I went back to the DaVinci Machines exhibition one more time before it packs up and leaves town. This was taken inside the Chamber of Mirrors.
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Dramatis DaVinci: Technopoly
“…the culture seeks its authorisation in technology, finds its satisfactions in technology, and takes its orders from technology.” – Neil Postman
Dramatis DaVinci: Third Shift
Dramatis DaVinci: Close Encounters
Dramatis DaVinci: the Madonna of Metropolis
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Dramatis DaVinci: Redeye
And now, phase two of the series, where I revisit some of these images with an eye toward processing for maximum drama. Up first:
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The DaVinci Gallery: Madonna and Construct
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The DaVinci Gallery: Lift
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The DaVinci Gallery: Leverage
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The DaVinci Gallery: Spotlight
The DaVinci Gallery: Technocracy
“Technocracy is a culture in which you have serious technology competing with a more traditional social and symbolic world.” – Postman
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The DaVinci Gallery: Icarus
I recently made two trips to the DaVinci Machines Exhibition in Denver. In the coming days I’ll be sharing some of my shots from these excursions (and trying to resist the urge to talk too much about what it is I think I’m doing). We’ll begin with this, one of my favorites.
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The DaVinci Gallery: a Study in High Dynamic Range
Lately I’m working not only on my actual camera ability, but also on better understanding the technology of processing images. Friday I spent a couple of hours in the DaVinci Machines Exhibit in Denver working on both composition and technical skills (shooting in lower light, for instance) and doing so with an eye toward how I’d be outputting the images later. Interesting results.
I bracketed everything I shot (three exposures: -3, 0 and +3) to enable composite High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing. For those who don’t know these terms (an audience that included me three months ago), bracketing is a process where the camera takes three (usually) exposures – with one slightly overexposed and one underexposed – so that the images can then be composited using image processing software (in this case, Photomatix). The result: “a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging methods or photographic methods.”
The sequence below comprises five different takes on the same raw image of DaVinci’s inclinometer. First, the basic shot, fine tuned a bit in Photoshop.
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