Saturday, January 2, 2016

Saturday Night Dance Video

2 comments:

Chip Ahoy said...

Are you and the kids dancing around the house?

You mentioned branching out to more dance music by using the song suggestions offered.

Know how they get those high dynamic range photographs that seem saturated in color?

They put their camera on a tripod and program it to bracket two or three shots together.

Why bracket shots?

Well you see, *arm akimbo, other hand offers invisible doughnut* Say you take a photo of your black-haired Groenendale Belgian silhouetted against a harshly bright sky. The shadows and the highlights might be beyond the sensor's range so it compromises in the middle. Had it not compromised then there could be detail in the black fur and the shadow with blown out highlights and no detail in high white. Conversely it could not compromise the other way and get detail in the lights and lose it in the darks and that's a bummer because the beautiful luxurious fur of the dog looks like an ink blob.

By bracketing the camera adjusts settings to satisfy both extremes and the middle. Then in post processing have the detail of all three combined and concentrate the colors. Since the photos go snap,snap,snap, with the camera adjusting the shutter speed then fast moving things will still be blurred when the photos combined, water, hummingbird wings, sports and the like.

We already do this to an extent with RAW files in Photoshop. RAW offers greater range to pull detail. This is really useful in salvaging photographs. Shooting with brackets will increase the extremes of the RAW files to be combined in Photoshop post processing.

Yeah, we photographer types like to fiddle with our pictures. Ansel Adams, one of our heroes, said, "You know, it just flat pisses me off when people say, oh Dude, you sure are great at getting out there and finding the perfect photographs, your timing is great, your camera technique wonderful." Well thanks, but they have no idea or appreciation my true art, most of my work, most my hours are spent in the darkroom.

The boat cover is such a bracketed photo. Notice the water is blurred.

chickelit said...

The photo reminds me of Fredo's fate in Godfather II.

I am so simple-minded.