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Montserrat mountain, Spain

Montserrat mountain, Spain

11 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Montserrat is a mountain near Barcelona, in Catalonia, in Spain. It is the site of a Benedictine abbey, Santa María de Montserrat, which hosts the Virgin of Montserrat sanctuary and which is identified by some [1] with the location of the Holy Grail in Arthurian myth. The name “Montserrat” literally means “jagged mountain” and is […]

HDR in Photoshop CS2

HDR in Photoshop CS2

11 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

What is HDR? For anybody not a secret, that digital cameras have limited enough range of tones. Frequently in one picture happens it is impossible to embody a full detailed picture with the expressed oscillations of light and dark tones. Therefore before us always there is a problem: or we choose a bright solar decline […]

Smart tricks for HDRi photographers

Smart tricks for HDRi photographers

9 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

How to remove pedestrians and cars: very simply – it is necessary to make on some series of frames with bracketing, and then in files with identical luminance to cut out from everyone sites where there are no pedestrians and cars (the similar principle is used at splice of panoramas). How to struggle with foliage: […]

How to create HDRi on the normal digital camera

How to create HDRi on the normal digital camera

9 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

As for formation HDRi – images with worked both colors and shadows very big range of luminances is necessary to us, to receive a normal initial material for once it will not turn out. In this case to us will help automatic bracketing (AEB). Automatic bracketing it is an operating mode of the camera when […]

What is HDRi

9 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Technology High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) this image with the expanded dynamic range due to transition from integer definition of luminance of pixel to material. That is the image is described by real physical sizes of luminance and color. In other words, if real picture levels of two pixels differ on size twice also their […]

Tel Aviv, Israel

Tel Aviv, Israel

9 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Tel Aviv-Yafo is Israel’s second largest city, located on the Mediterranean coast. It is the main city of the largest and most populous metropolitan area in Israel, Gush Dan (Dan Bloc), which has a population of 3,040,400.[2] The city itself has a population of 382,500 over an area covering 50,553 dunams (50.6 km² or 19.5 […]

Girona, Catalonia

Girona, Catalonia

5 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Catalonia, is one of the constituent autonomous communities of Spain, which acceded to this status declared as a nationality of the Spanish nation by its statute. As such, it is commonly referred to as the Autonomous community of Catalonia. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, and Valencia to the […]

The Novgorod Kremlin, Spaskaya a tower

The Novgorod Kremlin, Spaskaya a tower

5 февраля 2007 — HDR (HDRi) photos and tutorials

Fire safety in country houses

Fire safety in country houses

3 февраля 2007 — Fire safety, protection against fire and smoke

Asbestos cement or metallic smoke pipes demand careful fire-prevention insulant. Wooden surfaces of attic flooring can be plastered, closed up thin plates of sheet metal or asbestos, to paste a foil, to treat polymers.

Plan escape routes

3 февраля 2007 — Fire safety, protection against fire and smoke

Planned escape routes are a necessity, especially if a fire were to occur during the night. Go through each room in your house and think of possible solutions.