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A great source for interesting light setups

• http://uk.fotopunto.com/articulo-explained-lighting-schemes_60

Hello folks,

finally we will bring a new product on the market, completely developed in Delphi 2007 for Windows. The software will allow you to render HDR images from one or multiple single images.

If you do not know much about HDR imaging, I recommen the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

Whom are we looking for? People with real interest in HDR imaging, who have some time to take images with their digital camera (DSLR recommended) and try to compose final HDR images using our software. If you have experience with other HDR software (like Photomatix, Artizen, FDRTools, ...) you probably can help us too ;-)

So, if you are interested in joining the beta, a few spots are still available. Write a short email to beta (at) fasthdr.com, put your name into the email and a short reason why you are interested. If you have samples of previously made HDRs online (like Flickr), include a link, but please, do not put them into the email.

Anyway, another thought. We use a few TMS components in this project. Many people ranted about my TMS posts and how I was making all of it bad - they should have read more properly. I only talked about one specific component, and I know there are many more, and quiet a few of them, I do like too ;-)

FastHDR uses following great TMS Components (among others): TAdvOfficePager, TAdvOfficeCheckBox, TSpinEdit, TAdvRangeSlider, TAdvTrackBar
Also, we use: ImageEn from HiComponents, TNT Components, DC RAW and ImageMagick

If you are interested in (digital) photographie, you might want to check out those sites:

• http://www.photozone.de/ (English, lens reviews, general information about technology)
• http://strobist.blogspot.com/ (English, all about flashes)

There are more, but those two just stand out. I'll add more over time, I'm sure ;)

Barcelona - 004, ursprünglich hochgeladen von dwischnewski

This week one of our customers needed me in Barcelone for a meeting. Having some spare time, I took my trusted camera around Barcelona and made quiet a few photos (about 5 GB in data). This is one of my favourite images of the day, the colours just turned out great. I used my Blue-Gold-Polarizer to accomplish it. I think I have to get the Singh-Ray version of the polarizer, it will look even better as far as I know ;-)

I hope you like it as well.

Ottobrunn and Neubiberg, ursprünglich hochgeladen von dwischnewski

Well, just to talk about it. On Saturday I played for the first time with the HDR feature of Corel Paint Shop Pro X2. It is fairly easy to use and produces good results, even with hand held shots, that need to be aligned. Sadly it produces some ghosting, as you can see with the car, that is (not) there. We'll see what else will come...

Munich City Express stop Neubiberg, ursprünglich hochgeladen von dwischnewski

Actually, I have taken this picture in February as well, but this is not so important. Anyway, this picture was taken without a tripod, 1/30 sec, Av 4,0, and 35mm. It was a cool evening, when I went home from work. Since I held the camera in my hand, it is a little blury due to shaking of my hand.   

Munich, Germany - Street at Night, ursprünglich hochgeladen von dwischnewski

Well, so I start picking up the habit of posting a photo I made every once in a while. Sorry ;-)

This one was taken last Sunday and has an exposure time of about 80 seconds using my trusted EOS 400 and a new lens I bought second hand. I was just playing around with it and just love this picture. It made my desktop about 5 mintues later.

Taken from my balocony pointing at the street in a mild night, just about 0°C - mild for the season, anyway.