Specialization is for Insects.
A couple of weekends ago Trey, Cali and I – plus a cast of thousands (well, or maybe a dozen) – got together at the Livid Lobster headquarters and we had a nice little chat about all sorts of stuff, including photography, travel, love, and mass murder.
Well, maybe not all of those things, but you’ll have to watch to see which ones.
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Trey Ratcliff's Horse HDR
Well, I’ve got some good news… Trey now has a NEW downloadable version of his HDR Workshop! And, thanks to the magic of friendship, you can get 10% off any version of the HDR Tutorial using the coupon code: “JOHNPISAGREATGUY“. So feel free to Order the HDR Video Tutorial Now! (Oh, and don’t bother looking for a bigger discount code anywhere. It doesn’t exist, so no need to waste time.)
This isn’t any old HDR Tutorial… this video was shot on location in Austin during Trey’s sold-out HDR Workshop which people paid $1,000 to attend. (And I should know… I shot it!)
And lets not forget that Trey Ratcliff is the greatest HDR photographer on the planet, and the first person to ever have an HDR hang in the Smithsonian Museum.
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A construction crew in the south-central Chinese city of Changsha completed a 15-story hotel in just six days! Holy crap! When you take a look at the amazing pace, organization and precision of the work it makes you think that the US absolutely SUCKS at construction!
And by the way, the Chinese aren’t putting up crappy buildings that you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in! Just take a look at the amazing buildings Trey Ratcliff captured on his recent trip to China over on StuckInCustoms.com.
Anyway, here is the description from Yahoo News on this new building:
The work crew erected the hotel — a soundproofed, thermal-insulated structure reportedly built to withstand a magnitude 9 earthquake — with all prefabricated materials. In other words, a crew of off-site factory workers built the sections, and their on-site counterparts arranged them on the foundation for the Ark project.
Despite the frenetic pace of construction, no workers were injured — and thanks to the prefab nature of the process, the builders wasted very few construction materials. Below is a time-lapse video that shows the hotel being built from the ground up in less than a week:
Wow, I’ve got a special treat to share with you guys today. Trey Ratcliff just released a new video he made from his recent travels in Japan. As you probably know, he’s amazing at HDR photography and posts photos freely to his site Stuck In Customs, and also his HDR Flickr account. (Did you see the piece of HDR Wall Art I got from him recently?) But what many of you might not know is that Trey also dabbles in Video. So here is his video entitled Japan: Heartbeats of Time.
For many parts of this video Trey used an effect he pioneered called “Stuck in Motion“. It’s a fantastic technique, and one that I intend to try and utilize next week while I’m at the Indy 500. People, and living things in general, look absolutely amazing with this technique. Inanimate objects seem to simply be rolling by in slow motion.
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A few weeks ago I got a brand new piece of art from Trey Ratcliff, who specializes in hdr photography. And I’m not talking about a little 8″x10″ photo or anything… I’m talking about a 5 foot diagonal full color photograph specially printed on a high gloss aluminum surface.
The photo is one Trey took in Central Park which I immediately loved and asked him to get printed for me. Here is a little video of the un-crating of this magnificent piece of wall art.
If you have some room in your home or office for museum quality photography I highly encourage you to contact Trey and just make it happen. He’s one of the most accommodating artists you could ever want to meet, so just give him an idea what you’re looking to do and he’ll take good care of you. Here is his page that lists current hdr prints, but keep in mind that as long as you have the budget I’m sure he’ll make any piece available for you.
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Mark Ramsey is so smoooth. So here is his Top 10 List of Reasons to Attend OpenCamp!
By the way, you ARE coming to OpenCamp right? I mean… if you don’t show up you are instantly disallowed from ever asking me for blogging, Web authoring, or other general advice of this nature. :-) Seriously, you’ll learn more in two days than in at least a year on your own. For $99!!! I mean holy crap, other conferences with inferior speakers will charge you $1,000+ for two days OR worse yet, make you sit through sales pitches! AAAaarrrgghh!
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Ok gang, for those of you who just got an iPad, you really need something nice to spice things up so you don’t have the same old iPad desktop wallpapers that everyone else has! Luckily Trey Ratcliff has come to the rescue!
You guys know Cali Lewis and Trey Ratcliff, right? Well, the other day we were having a little lunch and Cali decided to be nosey and ask Trey what the heck he keeps in that huge camera bag he carries all over the world!
Luckily I was there with my trusty little Canon G11 camera to record the resulting discussion. So for those of you wondering what a professional in hdr photography carries with him wherever he goes, wonder no more!
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Ahhh, day 3 of our 3-day photo contest! I’ll tell you what, you guys have kept me busy! First with the landscapes, then the vehicles, and now we’ve moved on to Architecture Day!
As with before, as you scroll down you’ll find many of the photos submitted by users that I really enjoyed today. And at the end we’ve got the final winner of Trey’s new book A World in HDR. For those of you who are in the Austin, TX area don’t forget that next Wednesday, December 9th, there is going to be a book launch party at the Driskill hotel in downtown. So come on out and get your copy signed.
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