Saturday, June 10, 2006

Tone-Mapping Experiments


Tozenji Symphony- a higher harmony found in blended images.

Here are some of my early experiments with Photomatix, an amazing tool to blend photos together, to create High Dynamic Range pictures from various exposures or from a single raw file and also do what it calls 'tone-mapping', in which you can extract the tones from an HDR image, (or a semi-HDR RAW image) and bring out hidden details. Sounds complex? Well, thanks to this software it's a lot simpler than it sounds. The blended images are called 'symphonies' here and this is something to explore further- to merge impressions together and find the harmonies hidden within them.

Note: 19/09/2006- I decided to replace many of these with the 'better' versions that had been photo-shopped to fix their contrast and colours. No point in having two versions of the same photo floating around! Posted by Picasa

2 comments:

pearlie said...

Hi!
Beautiful! Thanks for posting them.
And I wonder if it will be ok with you if I use them in my blog? It is my practice to credit all pictures used.

Starfire said...

Maegan-

Please do, so long as I am credited I am very happy for you or anyone else to do so!

If you are interested in the HDR ones, I have actually made some revised versions with better colours (I hope), that I'll be posting very soon.