03.08

hello.

long time, no see.

i have been busy doing nothing for the past couple of weeks. doing nothing substantial, really,  and i often find myself easily turned off and uninterested in most of the things that are happening around me. that’s why i usually end up not going, not giving a damn.

i think i have grown a little more cynical.

i also realized that lately, i can get really bored.

now that, IS weird. i’m never bored.

i’m going to start editing with that new movie in 2 weeks, so probably this me psyching up for it. yata.

basta weird.

i was at gian’s spring/summer 08 fashion show at the makati shangri-la last week. the clothes were fantastic! i reckon they were looking for tall, slender, female models a few months back — and i couldn’t think of anybody i knew who would be bagay.

then i remembered a few friends, suddenly, during the show na.

weird.

oh, and that photo i posted here — it’s an hdr image. it was taken at a ranch in batangas.

plainly put, it’s more than 1 photo of the same shot, taken at different exposures. then you merge it, and tone-map it in an hdr app (or photoshop cs3) and what it does  is, it gets the shadow information from the photos with the lower exposures, and gets the highlights from the ones with the higher exposures and merges them together into 1 picture.

the range of the tones are insane! although too insane that your typical computer screen cannot display it properly. but the color and tonal information are all there, so you have more headroom to play with it.

i just tone-mapped it into an 8-bit jpeg. nice aint it?

i think i’m getting a hang of the process now, i can now actually stripe xml and fake the exposure settings on raw images, to force photos for hdr use.

how nerdox.

i’m excited to see the penshoppe summer collection billboards (penshoppe planets) due in 1-2 weeks. we used hdr on the models there, i hope it comes out good.

watched the new lost episodes a few days, very impressive how they got to re-focus the storyline. 2 seasons na lang!!! jj abrams is a genius.

i also tried catching up with season 2 of dexter, but i realized i couldn’t take watching it alone — natatakot ako. i got so engaged, so involved. stopped at episode 5.

is it just me?

been listening to the eagles of death metal lately, and the usual stephen malkmus and the jicks.