American Nukes
I don’t think I’ve mentioned it here before (which sort of amazes me) but for the past three years I’ve been working on a major photo project on nuclear weapons. Road-tripping across the United States, covering a total of 25,000…
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
A Bigger Camera
by Darin Boville
Category Technology
MacOS’s Partial HDR updates
(Note: If you are seeing the above image in Safari or in any other non-HDR browser you are seeing a dark, dull, ugly conversion. If you are seeing it in Opera or Chrome on an HDR monitor you are seeing…
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What do Infrared Photographs in HDR Look Like?
Some photographs look more or less the same in HDR with perhaps a few specular highlights growing lighter, the photograph looking maybe a tad more lifelike than before. Infrared photographs, however, seem born for HDR. The white of the photographs,…
SDR and HDR Comparison Video
Did I mention I couldn’t sleep? Understanding HDR still images, though it seems easy, is hard. We’ve spent many years looking at SDR images, agonizing over SDR images. We pondered the colors, the sharpness, all manner of subtleties, but we…
Photography’s New Thing
I can’t sleep at night, I have trouble concentrating during the day. It’s on my mind, the voice in my head (or, more accurately, the voices, though they all sound like me) can’t stop going on and on about it.…
What Do We Call AI-Photography?
We need a name for this new thing, this new way of generating photo-realistic images. That name sure isn’t “photography.” There is a great outcry amongst the Twittering masses over this question, every photographer now a philosopher, ontology replacing cryptocurrency…
Creative Destruction of the Creatives
There is nothing that computers can do that humans can’t do themselves, with pencil and paper, if only we were given enough time. At a low enough level computation is mind-numbingly dumb. There’s no ghost-in-the-machine hiding down there. But there…
Books On My Desk: Kodachrome Himalayas and the Great Digital Convergence
The stack grows a little shorter. Travels Across the Roof of the World: A Himalayan Memoir by William and Anne Frej.Additional texts by Edwin Bernbaum, Michael Tobias, and Jane Gray Morrison.Published in 2022 by George F. Thompson Publishing in Association…
Raw Footage: Unprocessed Images from the Mojave Desert
When I make images there is usually a long lag before I share the picture. My recent Hotel Rooms, for example were photographed in September and October of last year, photoshopped in November (essentially correcting the geometry of the images),…