Picture shot in December`09 minutes after sundown. sky has been tonemapped.
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Sky is bottled up
The Scary Volvo V70
I have not had time to write as much here as I would have liked the last days, so I will do a recap of the last days most interesting events. I have for the last days done an odd job one hour trip by car away from here at Evje. On Wednesday this week I had an expensive experience that I deserved for sure. I was kinda tired and a little hungry and wanted to get home as soon as possible, so I stepped on the speed to get home earlier, I normally don’t speed much over the speed limits. When I was 15 minutes away from home, at the end of the 70 km/h limits were the 50-60s start there was this annoying burgundy Volvo V70 driving a little too close to me, so I speeded even more to get a little gap between me and the Volvo, but it came back after a little while each time I did this. I entered the 60 limit and after the first corner in the 50s that comes right after, down the hill after Høyetun the Volvo was back again, then it came to me; “I have screwed up, haven’t I?” Right after I thought this the blue strobes went on and I had to stop. “Could I see your driver’s license please, we measured you too 88,55 km/h over 2 kilometers in the 70 limit zone.” So much for wanting to get home a little earlier, the cost came to a fine of 3600 NOK and 1 penalty point on the license (If you get 8 points over 3 years you lose the license for 6 months). My first Fine ever since I got my license 8 years ago. The thing is that I was planning on giving myself a new lens for my camera for that money, something I would need to forget.
I have on my way home the other days been looking for nice photo opportunities, and yesterday the lighting made a sight that I drive past each day look really good, it’s the ruins of a long forgotten bridge. (One two of the wooden poles still standing) I got more good pictures that day, but I will only show one of them here, the rest is possible to see at my DeviantArt site: LINK
I have also received more works from potential artists for the Illustrated story, I am looking forward to the time were the story will be realized.
Blures on the Sky
Just playing around in Phomatix and PS today, another sky made with 3 pictures and some blurings in PS.
Pink Sky
There was a thunder storm raging through the area today, I was just about to turn the PC off and while it shut down I took a glance through the window, there at that same second I saw through the glass there was a lightning strike 40 meters down the road, looked like it hit the roof of a building there. Firefighters were at the spot 5 minutes later, but it seemed like no danger were found. After that I went with my cousin to some of the good view points in the city with the goal as to take some nice pictures of the clouds and skyline. The picture shown here is a cut-out of a result after using the HDR merge ability in PS, using a set of AEB pictures taken earlier when we were out.
Learning Mask Methods
Today I have tested out some mask methods by going through some tutorials; as a result I used some of the things I learned to make this. 2 pictures were used, the first one is of a sculpture at a school here in Kristiansand, and the second picture is of a street-art piece in Oslo.
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Learning blur methods
I was really going to work on one of the other projects today, but when I opened any of the files I ended up just staring at them. So instead I found some cloud pictures, some art from a freebee zone of a website and started testing out some of the different blur methods in photoshop. I also used 3 different pictures of the same clouds with different shutter time and used the lights and darks from the different versions of the picture. I still didn’t feel too fond of the final image, but I will post it anyway. I think I will retry a cloud picture at some other time to see if I can get that dramatic effect were the lights and darks are more extreme.
Finished Work: Inva_zion
Inva_zion was a project were i wanted to see what i could do using a series of pictures of poles and spires, the 4 i went with is the ones you see here and i used the head of a lightpole for the “ufo”. A fun project that at some points were really difficult to get right, the assembly and colors didnt seem to be right, but i thing the result was rather good.
This is one of the projects i hope i can take with me for a future exhibition.
