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One of my best friend, a guy from Texas, recently bought a dslr. This made us having long chat about photography (cool!)
Yesterday we talked about HDR and we end up with screen-sharing to see “action” to do for editing a picture.
During a test I was doing with a couple of random picture, that I had taken an year ago and considered “crappy”, I got this result:
Not an HDR at all, but I see something of intriguing in it.
At least, I think so.
Creepy, awful day today!
I have not almost taken the today picture just because my ability to trust mankind (and my cognitive skills about people) is at its an all-time low.
But then, I said to myself: “F**k! I won’t let darkness overcome everything”.
I probably let the dark thoughts influence the picture, the attempt of HDR with a soap bubble, but I don’t dislike the result and I love the fact that the lens i kinda clear.
I don’t pretend to do great HDR, but I do love what you can get with HDR “technique”.
Starting from these:
to end up with this:
Again, the last Sunday, in the yard of my brother’s new house….
In May in the yard of my family country house
For some weird reason I love wood in B&W 
On Sunday I’ve seen a lot of old things, a lot of things I have not seen since I was 15-16. A lot of things coming from the past, before my father was born.
Among these things there was this sideboard. At least I think it’s a kind of sideboard. It was in my grandma house and now was covered by plastic to avoid it gets ruined during the various improvements their are doing to the house.
I don’t know why but I’ve taken several pictures to it, in order to do at least an “HDR version”. (This could make me explain you how I take B&W pictures… but I’ve no great will to write today).
It isn’t a great shot, probably, but it’s like those good friendship. You understand you are going to live really pleasant moments, as well it has been pleasant playing with lights and taking pictures to this old sideboard… and realizing that before Sunday I’d never take a picture of it… it reminded me that at times we’ve to (at least partially) cover/lose/bury things to understand what is good in them.
Today I worked on 2 pictures, one was an “HDR” work (well, not properly and HDR , but probably close enough…):
(well, not properly and HDR , but probably close enough…)
This picture has been taken on July 10th 2009, as the following 3 pictures, that I edited on July 13th.
And this:
The second one I edited today.
It reminded me that in the following days it fully bloomed and… I just ignored it because I just become unable to take any other pictures… seems like this last sunflower knew its destiny and started opening in a way that it already can seem dead or, just bending in front of something it cannot control…
And, except for a picture, I haven’t take so “colorful” and “detailed” pictures since that day.
It’s weird, so weird! 
or…weird friends and relatives.
I do my best to take nice shot of sparrows, butterfly, flowers and so on…
An afternoon, after lunch, my boyfriend laughed at looking an old “doll” in my country house, because it was with the head bended and a bottle (of water) beside him… he said:”If it was a bottle of vodka it would have looked like it’s drunk”.
I was lying on my bed relaxing… he was sitting beside me…as soon as he said what he said I just jump up from the bed, run to mom yelling: “Do you have a bottle of Vodka?”… She knows I ask weird things and I would never get drunk (a glass of wine is enough to make me feel dizzy) and she said: “No, but there is something of alcoholic in the cupboard…”
I took a bottle of Brandy (on left) and one of Whiskey ;D
The weird thing is that everyone liked the picture… my parents too (they are usually quite “cold” about photography…).
They really liked something I did just for fun! -_-’
Weird funny world! ;D
… Just didn’t want to start the post with an “I”.
Using it would make no sense because the goal is to make this blog a way to tell, or better to show, this world Beauty.
Too many words might “drown” the images and the whole blog would tell nothing.
Some one tell stories about words written along a series of line,
some one uses just “caught photons” decoded into pixel set on a series of lines,
and some others, or better something else, just tell about a branch age through a series of concentric lines.
We are all just trying to tell that amazing eternal story that is told day by day to all of us.
I am surely not the first person to be talking about Catania and/or about HDR. What’s wrong with this? Nothing.
HDR is a photography technique that consist in taking some pictures (>2) at different exposure level and elaborate them together in order to get only one picture. I guess you can learn more about HDR just clicking here.
The funny thing is that I have no patience for “studying” (A students in physics that hates to study?! Yeah, beside I am not as good as I wished in physics too, photography is fun for me at the moment, there is no way I can seriously “work” with this at the moment, so the idea to be “studying” something about photography is quite awful to me).
So I have just applied my technique of “chaotic learning”. I asked to a friend what I needed to get an HDR picture, and did some experiment.
First, almost an year ago:
Second, this summer:
Yesterday I shot 3 pictures to 2 different parts of the same building and, here you are the steps of what I did:
I mixed up the first 3 pictures, tried to correct perspective and here you are the final results:
Viale (“avenue”) XX Settembre #39. Catania.
Building named: “Palazzo Monaco” by engineer Luciano Nicolosi (1855-1947). Building in different styles.
I guess here you can notice part of the “Geometric frames” and the grating in decò-Empire style… forgive me, I am just a physics students trying to “translate” an old Italian book written in “artistic-architectural language” ;D
Viale (“avenue”) XX Settembre #39. Catania.
Building named: “Palazzo Monaco” by engineer Luciano Nicolosi (1855-1947). Building in different styles.
I guess here you can notice part of the “Geometric frames”, the grating in decò-Empire style and part of the caryatids and telamons (they human-looking sculpture) by Mario Moschetti.
Again…Please, forgive me, I am just a physics students trying to “translate” an old Italian book written in “artistic-architectural language” ;D
Be aware, monuments don’t look so colorful in reality, but neither as bad as in the first 3 pictures of each group. Those of you that can, COME TO SEE it is worth to do it!
Actually… I don’t love edited pictures, but I am liking the result in this case.
I don’t know the reason… probably it’s due to my inability to take pictures to monument or due to my desire to “go somewhere else for a little while”…but I see in it a good, probably funny too, way to look at Catania.
It’s just an experiment-project I started yesterday (I will give more detailed information soon). I wished I could take more pictures, but after lunch I felt pretty bad and I had to come back home, my legs can be pretty mean sometimes.
I’ve been talking enough.
Wish a wonderful Sunday to all of you! ;D
