More ramblings

Well, it looks like NIN have been/had some songs leaked to the world and a nice site has opened up to share them with us all easily. They sound authentic to me, and not too bad either.

On another note i went to see Babel at the Regent on Worcester movie theater last week and thought it was fantastic. The actors are mostly all good, even the unknown ones. Brad Pitt also didn't make me want to throttle him like he often does. All in all, i'm pleased i paid to see it.

Work, pretty plain to be honest.

There are a few other things too, have a look on wikipedia for Open Source Cola and see if you can make it and whether it tastes anything like branded stuff. I think i might try when i can be bothered and have the money to be able to afford some of the ingredients. Let me know.

Lastly i'm very intrigued by the creation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. There are thousands of amazing images out there to look at and marvel over and i am going to start trying to take all my pictures this way. It might in fact even make me think about my pictures a little more and take the time to compose a shot before blindly clicking.

HDR images are created with three or more bracketed images. This means one image is under exposed, one is about right, and another is over exposed. This allows for all the areas that are good in each picture to be merged to create something more faithful to what your eye saw as opposed to what the camera saw.

A few before and after shots to explain things: 1, 2, 3

There is an option of making an HDR image out of a single image too, but it is best to be done with a RAW picture as opposed to a JPEG so we'll see how that goes.

I'm going to try Photomatix as the software of choice as it seems to be the trade preference... i've tried a few conversions already and will keep you informed.