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Ah I didn't care much for that. Obviously we're appreciating different parts of "this". For me, there is something beautiful / mysterious about the interplay o

Ah I didn't care much for that. Obviously we're appreciating different parts of "this". For me, there is something beautiful / mysterious about the interplay of light amidst the ruin and dust particles whirling about. The magnificent architecture by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gotthard_Langhans http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gotthard_Langhans comes a close second. He probably would have gotten rave reviews from HN if alive today: " He was not educated as an architect. He studied law from 1753 to 1757 in Halle, and then mathematics and languages, and engaged himself auto-didactically with architecture, at which he concentrated primarily on the antique texts of the Roman architecture theorist Vitruvius (and the new version by the classics enthusiast Johann Joachim Winckelmann."

jasonwatkinspdx 15y ago
Perphaps I'm just turned off by the highly exaggerated and artificial tone mapping of most HDR. Generally I think using conventional techniques would have featured the architecture much better. HDR looks best when it expands the range of conventional techniques while still mimicking their perception. In this sense Ansel Adams was a master of HDR. This sort of HDR reminds me of early stereo recordings that would ping pong sounds between the channels using panning.
- Hitchhiker 15y ago
  All the commentators on this post including yourself are the experts regarding the actual tech they're using. I don't know enough about their technique .. and probably won't unless I make new friends ;-). Perhaps, the way to look at it is that these guys seem to have put in a lot of effort and heart into it. The music's kinda nice too. May be you all should leave a comment on their page so that the improvements could be implemented. Am fairly sure they have the raw footage, so like software, they can release a new version :-).

jasonwatkinspdx 15y ago

Perphaps I'm just turned off by the highly exaggerated and artificial tone mapping of most HDR. Generally I think using conventional techniques would have featured the architecture much better. HDR looks best when it expands the range of conventional techniques while still mimicking their perception. In this sense Ansel Adams was a master of HDR. This sort of HDR reminds me of early stereo recordings that would ping pong sounds between the channels using panning.

Hitchhiker 15y ago
All the commentators on this post including yourself are the experts regarding the actual tech they're using. I don't know enough about their technique .. and probably won't unless I make new friends ;-). Perhaps, the way to look at it is that these guys seem to have put in a lot of effort and heart into it. The music's kinda nice too. May be you all should leave a comment on their page so that the improvements could be implemented. Am fairly sure they have the raw footage, so like software, they can release a new version :-).