Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Warning: Do not use for unintended purposes

There's a program out there called Photomatix that is used to make HDR photos like house image I took in Fairplay, Co. The program takes several photos of different exposures but of the same shot and merges them together for the purposes of giving detail in highlights and shadows that one wouldn't be able to capture in a single image. For the program to work properly its important that all the images line on top of one another as Photomatix doesn't know to rotate or orient them. But what happens when you use a program for something other than its intended purposes?



I took 5 photographs of a set of stairs at different angles and merged them into an HDR image and this is what it came up with. I like how the stairs begin to form a circular pattern and the greenish swirls on the surface. It looks like its starting to burn or that layers of the photo are being peeled away.

1 comment:

Jill said...

Very cool! Looks like a fun program to play with.