MightyFunk

Here I will outline gear for taking proper HDR (High Dynamic Range) images using the latest technologies available. This article concerns HDR photography for inclusion within computer generated, 3D environments and image based lighting.

Cameras and Lenses

While any camera will basically suffice to produce HDR images, I will focus on professionally-targeted cameras for the sake of this article while focusing on a medium to high range of budget, short of spending $35,000+ on a Spheron camera system. In particular, I will talk about Canon-based cameras.

The camera criteria I look for in order to produce a good HDR image involves the following:

Years ago, I rolled out a website - www.hdrsource.com. It specialized in HDR (High Dynamic Range) imaging with a sole purpose of providing the 3D community with pioneering methods to light their 3D scenes. I worked hard in developing these computer-generated methods to create these images and 3D environments. Visually, these CG-based images I produced weren’t the most attractive - they’re not something you just want to spend hours (let alone minutes) admiring from an aesthetic perspective. Their main intent was simply to light a 3D scene in such a way as to provide a better, more realistic method to light a scene while providing new controls for balancing out an image.

Silicon aka Patrick had a good point. You can’t have P-Funk without the Godfather of all soul:

I’ll be the first to say that I was never a Johnny Cash fan - that is until I heard his covers from the Solitary Man albums. While I still can’t get quite into his older albums, I have nothing but deep-found respect for the man in black.

P.s. - I still haven’t seen the movie ‘Walk the line.’

You can’t mention funk without George Clinton and the P-Funk coming to mind.

So here’s a music video from the all-stars lest we forget:

Q. Will This Site Work in my Browser?

A. Good question moron. I don’t know. Try it. I heard it busts wide open in IE 6. I haven’t even dicked around with Safari. I’m not about to.

Q. Do you have any plans to make this site work with my browser?

A. Welcome to the year 2008 buddy. Upgrade your browser and get with the program.

Q. Is this site XHMTL valid?

A. Hell no. It works in the latest Opera, Firefox, and even (cough) IE. That’s all that matters.

Q. Is the CSS valid?

No - I don’t have any stock in Microsoft or Yahoo! I’m also not stupid enough to buy stock in either one while their prices are inflated. The time to have done (in the early 90s if you had spare cash, foresight, or just got plain lucky) so has long since passed. So my interests don’t lie there. Recently it’s been reported in the news that Microsoft has been trying to acquire Yahoo and has put out their offer.

But why am I interested at the moment in whether or not Yahoo should sell to Microsoft? Let me lay out a few reasons for you:

Hopefully I am closing in on the last of the more technical posts for this blog. I wanted to steer away from these topics as they tend to bore the average reader. On the other hand, I will add that technically-related writings tend to bring in a large reader base - especially if you write about something obscure or unusual. With the past two weeks of fiddling with this website, website setup and installation has been foremost on my mind so it is an easier topic for me to hit upon.

Blogging Origins

I’m an old-school blogger and website developer/designer. Originally, I had a blog called ‘Lunarlog’ (off of my main website Lunarstudio which started off on a very good note and gained a fair amount of popularity. That blog had been created in a time when most people never even heard of the term ‘blog.’ I had used an early system that I installed and hooked in called Movabletype (famous for bloggers blogging on Typepad.) Over a short amount of time, Lunarlog fell into a very sad state of disrepair.