Posts Tagged ‘photography’
March 23rd, 2010
The RMS Queen Mary 2 is to date the largest ocean liner ever built (but no longer the world’s largest passenger ship, a record she held until 2006).She arrived in Durban harbour this morning around 07h30 SAT to much fanfare and local excitement, these photographs are from colleagues who watched the arrival from the harbour area (she was also easily visible from the Derivco building).
RMS Queen Mary II’s current status (added bonus – a webcam on the bridge, even if it’s low quality)
Twitter coverage from @MarcForrest and @tequiladiva
Also see Marc Forrest’s Flickr set.
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January 22nd, 2010
Kulula‘s paint work for their new Boeing 737-86N (January 2010).
Another image – a great closeup of the detail on the left tail section.
Not your average boring airline.
All images matching a search for Kulula on jetphotos.net.
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July 10th, 2009
“On May 26th, photographers Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger were chasing a thunderstorm along a beach in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, when “the storm turned around and came a little too close for comfort,” says Schaefers. “We were able to photograph lightning hitting the water just 40 meters away.””
Pics taken with a Canon 400D.
http://www.astroengine.com/?p=5631
and
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2009
January 26th, 2009
A stunning view from Gough Island (40º20’57.7S 9º52’49.2W – Google Earth or Maps) during the partial solar eclipse this morning, from a live webcam.
We only saw 56% coverage in Durban (65% in Capetown) – thankfully the clouds were patchy so we had plenty of time for some great views.
Today also marked South Africa’s first formal day of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. I doesn’t matter how many eclipses I see, they are still awe-inspiring and somehow mystical events. I’ve seen two full eclipses before (one in Tshipise in Musina and the other from Lusaka, Zambia) and I plan to follow any others I can get to :-)
- Cape Town daily photo
- Justin Hartman
- Photos will apparently be posted on the South African Astronomical Observatory website shortly
- and of course Flickr eclipse photos are streaming in
January 19th, 2008
High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDRI/HDR or Hyper Imaging) produces some amazing photographs.
From Wikipedia: HDR(I) is “a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of exposures (the range of values between light and dark areas) than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.”
But put simply the photographer uses software to combine multiple photographs of the same scene, each taken with different exposures. The result is a photo with a wider range of light and dark tones than would otherwise be possible with one exposure – in theory photos which are closer to the way a human eye would see a scene (although the range can be wildly exaggerated for artistic / bizarre effect).
These are a few of my favourite examples – nice to see some astrophotography uses and my favourite obsession bridge :-)
Links:
- Astrophotography pool on Flickr
- Wikipedia HDRI topic (some great images here too)
- More of my favourites – Positano and The Grotto (youtube video, another Flickr photoset, view in Google Earth… I’ll stop now).
