Monday, October 09, 2006

I have an addiction to confess...

I'm addicted, and i don't think i want to stop. No its not drugs, alcohol or games. Nope, its not World of Warcraft (this is off tanent but i saw this report about some idiotic kid that plays the game 16 hours a day, what a dumb ass). I'm addicted to....

flickr.

Now many of you are probably thinking WTF? or "what a weirdo this guy is addicted to looking at stranger's photos" NO NO. Flickr has an amazing feature called explore where they take some of the best photos of a certain day. It is called "interestingness". It is amazing cause it shows some amazing photos. Now i change my wallpaper practically everyday, always finding a new favorite photo.

One of the most interesting photo technique i love SOO much is HDR (High Dynamic Range). HDR is done by taking the same picture three times. One has a lot of exposure, another is a photo with regular photo and then another has extremely low exposure. With all of these, using Photomatix, it combines all three to make a picture that looks like someone painted it. When done right, some of photos are just AMAZING. Clouds come out sooo amazing. Here is a amazing one and i'll put another cool one.

Flickr is a great website part of the web 2.0 revolution. Everyone should definetely just check some of these extremely good photographers and their amazing photos.

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