Tone Mapping

Recently came across this term and not sure what is happening aprt from the obvious compression of tones to suit the limited range of the display buit tried it on the previosyu street photo and think it somewhat better than the previous treatment which took much longer :-( LOL

The Photographic Society

Last night was a monthly meeting and we started off with print of the month and first up were the ones which didn't get placed and the fist was interesting. Cannot show you here becuase not mine. The lower part of the screen was a vivid bed of flowers with an early eveing shot of a street behind. The judge commented that it was two picture becuase there was nothing to link the two 'halves' together. I am sure that there could have been a lampost or something to do this in the conventional way. But what struct me about the shot, and it might be my imagination, was the way the myriad of colours, tail lines of cars, neon signs, street lights had a similar colourful presence in the top halve similar to the bed of flowers ....so I am left with a feeling that there are more ways than one to connect elements of a photograph together.
As for my entry, not selected for a place, which I didn't expect but of course hoped :-), I found it interesting that the elements of the composition which act IMO as a frame around the [picture were slammed and were too dark, judge didn't like the black. See for yourself ....

Actually it was an accident, like often happens with me in editing, that the background was burnt out and I used the curved tool to try and fix. Brought the top right hand end of the line downwards with little or no effect until it reached the bottom and I liked, I think, what I saw :-)
You can see a bigger version on my website
http://jcuknz-photos.com/PHOTOS2012/PHOTOS_2012.html

nearly a year has gone by

Due to computer problems and other reasons I lost this page and access to it. Just found it and sadly the BOSS is no longer with us but some ashes in my rose box guarded by a beautiful and sleek white cat satuette.

Credit for photos in previous post

So I missed this info out of e-mail I got .. tremendous sequence :-)
Centurion in Pilanesberg game reserve, South Africa

Road Rage -- African style

SHE ...Madam! .... is still with us

An update on Smudge who is still eating me out of house and home bless her and spending most of the day sleeping on my bed and only moving over a bit so I can fit down beside her. SHE must always be on the outside, the bed is against a wall, and on only one occasion did she spend more than five seconds on the inside. Animals a strange. Around breakfast time she goes out and sits in the old picnic box made of polystyrene next the the door. She is fairly safe there back away from the gateway to the footpath. Then evening time she seems to like to spend time out there in the box, which is under a flower box on stilts even when it is pouring cats and dogs ... then she comes in once it has got dark.
I do wonder what she can see, if she knows when it is dark, or else tells by the lack of traffic along the stae Highway I live beside.

Some comments

jcuknz (647) Says:

March 5th, 2011 at 11:10 am
It may be and probably reasonable to abate the superannuation for that 65yo CEO but it is completely inhumane to not pay it to somebody who has worked their body to a shell in manual work and is given maybe just a couple or three years of peace in retirement. In any case Superanuiation is hardly life style rather a subsistence. Since it would be hard with many anomallys to separate the fair from unfair it is worth pointing out that the CEO has most likely saving and private income and the super he gets will be clawed back by taxation. It is just a stupid cry from the petty minded selfish individuals who think only of themselves and the so called injustice by theft of their money instead of accepting willingly their responsibilities as a citizen.

March 5th, 2011 at 11:20 am
I cannot see how anybody cannot be well aware of Christchurch with the media circus getting on its high heels almost to the exclusion of other happenings in the world even if, as I have, cut the power to my TV to save the waste of power from it being on standby and not being turned on this past week and likely the next week or more. Another day of lost production so the stuffed shirts can stand in front of the TV cameras …. Urrgh!

March 5th, 2011 at 11:25 am
The problem with Anthony’s suggestion of having to apply for an ‘old age benefit’ is that it negates any reason for the ordinary person to save if becuase they have deprived themselves today that tommorrow their savings income will abate chances of super which after all is just a subsistence allowance and certainly not a life-style.

March 5th, 2011 at 11:35 am
I don’t know what Somalia shows us BUT I know that with the populkation the world has now there has to be government to keep order and share the limited resorces. So all you individualistic guys … put a peg on it and reduce the worlds’ population back down to the numbers in 16th century and you can go for gold again.. A great inheritance for your great gandchild if not for yourself. But you are too selfish to think beyond your nose … sad really.