Spring is here and the roadside wildflowers are at their peak! I took these along a 100 foot stretch of Waldo Road. Enjoy!
Roadside Flowers 2009
Month: March 2009
Let the Right One In by Tomas Alfredson
Let the Right One In
Låt den rätte komma in
Tomas Alfredson
2008
I’m not a big fan of vampire movies, but this one succeeds on several levels. The gore/supernatural bits help drive the plot, but are not the central focus. The story unfolds at a natural pace and the key dialog is almost languid. The setup is disarmingly simple: local boy with a schoolyard bully problem and the strange girl who moves in next door. The child actors are nearly perfect. The adults are mostly caricatures, which is not surprising for a story told from a child’s point of view.
More HDR Photos
Another experiment. Handheld exposures at +2 0 -2 using an inexpensive 0.45x wide angle attachment. Here is the 0 EV RAW image, the best I could do importing into PS…
The camera did a good job with the exposure to get shadow details, but the sky is blown. Here is the tone compression image, which approximates what I get with Lightroom, but better for having the dynamic range of three exposures…
And finally the detail enhancer, plus some post-processing in PS to increase the global contrast and color saturation…
This last image begins to approximate the “HDR Look” I think. Pushed it just to the edge of natural in this case. Notice the obvious detail on the porch, which was in deep shadow!