Putting On The Brakes

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3 Exposure HDR. Click image for larger view.

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Brake Man

Comic Heaven

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Looking for a graphic novel, comic or special release…..this is the place.

Bergen Street Comics – 470 Bergen Street, Bklyn, NY 11217 – bergenstreetcomics@gmail.com

718-230-5600

Tom Adams, Owner

5 Exposure HDR. Click image for larger view.

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Comic Heaven

Welcome to the photo blog.

Click the blog title, Leaving The Station Photo Blog, at the top of the page, to return to the front page at any time.

For those who may be new to HDR imaging, it is a technique that combines different exposures of the same scene resulting in a blended image that is optimally exposed in both the shadow and highlight areas. The final output can result in a wide array of styles, from hyper-realism to illustration and anything in between.

HDR images should be viewed as large as possible to take in all the detail. This blog allows for visitors to choose what images they want to see and with one click see the image, full size, in its own window. That’s the way I prefer to look at photography sites, and I hope you see the benefits of it as well… Please, click directly on an image of your choice and then zoom in. You won’t be disappointed.

At the bottom of this page is a navigation tool that allows you to move to the next/previous multiple pages of images.

Thanks for visiting and feel free to comment on any image or drop me an email [my email is located in the Navigation pane on the right]. Good shooting.

I’d like to thank all the vistors that have stopped by the StudioPhototrope blog. Today, June 4, 2009, we had our 20,000th page view.

2 Beaded Bridges With A Boat Painting Light

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There’s just something special about night imaging. Then you add HDR into the mix. Good stuff.

2 Beaded Bridges has been added to “35 Fantastic HDR Pictures” on Smashing Magazine web site. Thanks to the Editors, Vitaly Friedman and Sven Lennartz.

3 Exposure HDR. Click image for a larger view, click again to zoom.

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Brooklyn & Manhattan Beaded Bridges

Wonder Wheel on a late August night

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7 exposure HDR. Click image for larger view, click again to zoom.

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Wonder Wheel, Coney Island, NYC

Sunset From Norman Mailer’s Promenade

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5 Exposure HDR. Click image for larger view, click again to zoom.

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Sunset From The Promenade 2

Picture In Picture In Image

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5 Exposure non static HDR. Click image for larger view.

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Picture In Picture

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Monsters and Aliens In Times Square

5 Exposure non-static HDR. Click image for larger view.

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Monster And Aliens

Shoes, Hope and a Self Portrait

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3 Exposure HDR. Click image for larger view.

Soula Shoes, 185 Smith Street, Brooklyn, NY

718.834.8423

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Shoe Store

Bridge To Somewhere

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What is it with me and bridges? Might it be I’m looking to cross some kind of personal divide? I’ll have to ring up my friend, a disgruntled former tarot card reader who lives in Houston,  for his take on the issue.

7 Exposure HDR. Click image for larger view.

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Manhattan's Bridge

I Digress – From The Archive – Homeless In Midtown

Homeless In Midtown, NYC

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In the days before Photoshop, when shooting 35mm film was standard, I was always looking for ways to alter images in camera. Not being a darkroom kind of guy, I was on a mission to make my images look like paintings. I tried many different techniques, but I always started with Kodachrome 64, possibly the best film ever made, imo. It’s a shame that Kodak couldn’t find a way to keep that filmstock viable…but that’s another story. Anyway, one of my favorite techniques to try and turn an image “painterly” was to employ very slow shutter speeds [anything <= 1/30 of a second], shooting at the smallest apertures [ f16 - f32] and, rather than attempt to keep the camera still I would use camera movement to intentionally blur a scene. The trick was, of course, to learn how much camera movement to use at which shutter speeds and to understand that the necessary camera movement, to create the right blur, was usually a lot less than initially thought . Ultimately,  I wanted to blur a scene without removing all detail. I wanted just enough blur to give the impression that there were paint strokes in the image. There was lots of trial and error with this technique, and in the days of film, you really wouldn’t know the results for at least 24-48 hours.  “Homeless In Midtown” was always one of my favorites. It showed the horror of being homeless while not completely invading the privacy of the subject.

This image is from a scanned Kodachrome 64 slide, shot over 30 years ago. Click image for larger view.

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