Oddly enough, one showed up in an HDR image...

http://www.gate.net/~hobbes/UFO.jpg



Kyle

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And I was just glancing through some family shots:
http://www21.brinkster.com/jrcsurvey/skiing/index.html

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Bill Hails <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote:
> Not sure on policy for photo/raytrace composites, so I won't
> post the actual image here. I'm quite pleased with it though:
>
> http://billhails.net/Gallery/visitor.html
>

The message below is driving me mad. I am sure that you could post it here.
Just to let me have a look. Pretty Please :-)


Access to this web site has been blocked because it's content has been
classified as inappropriate by Rolls-Royce.

If you require access to this site please contact your IT Manager.

Stephen

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Bill Hails <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote:
>
> http://billhails.net/Gallery/visitor.html

Do you usually look at the floor with that telescope, or is it installed
upside-down just to match the ad in the circular? ;-)

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Stephen wrote:

> Bill Hails <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote:
>> Not sure on policy for photo/raytrace composites, so I won't
>> post the actual image here. I'm quite pleased with it though:
>>
>> http://billhails.net/Gallery/visitor.html
>>
> 
> The message below is driving me mad. I am sure that you could post it
> here. Just to let me have a look. Pretty Please :-)
> 
> 
> Access to this web site has been blocked because it's content has been
> classified as inappropriate by Rolls-Royce.
> 
> If you require access to this site please contact your IT Manager.
> 
> Stephen

I guess you work for Rolls Royce and you're trying to view it from work?
Maybe they've got something against my web hosts?

anyway, here 'tis

-- 
Bill Hails
http://billhails.net/

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Attachments:
Download 'visitor.jpg' (64 KB)

Preview of image 'visitor.jpg'

Cousin Ricky wrote:

> Bill Hails <bil### [at] europeyahoo-inccom> wrote:
>>
>> http://billhails.net/Gallery/visitor.html
> 
> Do you usually look at the floor with that telescope, or is it installed
> upside-down just to match the ad in the circular? ;-)

I guess a sensible answer is in order :-)
It's pointed at the floor so it can't be pointing at the sun.

-- 
Bill Hails
http://billhails.net/

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Bill Hails <me### [at] billhailsnet> wrote:
>
> I guess you work for Rolls Royce and you're trying to view it from work?
> Maybe they've got something against my web hosts?
>
> anyway, here 'tis
>

Thanks Bill now I can see what the excitement is about. It looks very good,
I hope that it (?) is house trained.
I am working at RR on a contract and two weeks ago someone attacked their


R-R email account.

Stephen

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Bill Hails wrote:
> Not sure on policy for photo/raytrace composites, so I won't
> post the actual image here. I'm quite pleased with it though:
> 
> http://billhails.net/Gallery/visitor.html
> 

Very nice, Bill. I think it would look more "integrated" if the textures 
were less reflective, so you will see a bit of the shading of the object 
"matching" the real scene lighting.

BTW, I purchased a very good mirror ball some months ago, but I found my 
camera only has autofocus, and it refuses to focus the on reflected 
environment, so I can't get a sharp HDRI. The lighting comes out very 
nice, but the reflections are always very blurred... anyone go a trick 
for this situation? Or should I buy a camera with manual focus?

P.S.: I tried to create the HDRI also with MegaPOV HDR output, without 
having to resort to external utilities, but I'm still polishing the 
method. It uses concentric spheres for each exposure shot, and 
successive transparency with increasing ambient values, but it's 
somewhat esoteric to adjust by now.

--
Jaime

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> BTW, I purchased a very good mirror ball some months ago, but I found my
> camera only has autofocus, and it refuses to focus the on reflected
> environment, so I can't get a sharp HDRI. The lighting comes out very
> nice, but the reflections are always very blurred... anyone go a trick
> for this situation? Or should I buy a camera with manual focus?

Best to have a camera with manual focus and shutter speed ability.  (I also
use these functions often for regular photography with my camera).
Nowadays you can get digital cameras with these functions for fairly cheap.
 (Better yet you can go DSLR if you have the money...one day... one day...)

> P.S.: I tried to create the HDRI also with MegaPOV HDR output, without
> having to resort to external utilities, but I'm still polishing the
> method. It uses concentric spheres for each exposure shot, and
> successive transparency with increasing ambient values, but it's
> somewhat esoteric to adjust by now.
>
> --
> Jaime

Can you try averaging the images using a weighting appropriate to the
reltive f-stops and camera response curve?


-tgq

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Trevor G Quayle wrote:
> Best to have a camera with manual focus and shutter speed ability.
> (I also use these functions often for regular photography with my
> camera). Nowadays you can get digital cameras with these functions
> for fairly cheap. (Better yet you can go DSLR if you have the
> money...one day... one day...)

   I know very little about cameras: this is the first time I own a
camera in my life, believe it or not... the problem is that I didn't
have HDRI in mind when I purchased it, so following Murphy's law I
did chose the wrong one.

> Can you try averaging the images using a weighting appropriate to the
>  reltive f-stops and camera response curve?

   Very good suggestion, but I would have to learn *a lot* about
photography to be able to do this... Now that I remember, my brother was
into the photographic hobby some years ago and perhaps he still has some
basic books around (I only have to find the time to read them... :)

--
Jaime

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