Monkey in HDR

 Taking pictures of animals is sometimes quite difficult because the camera has problems to find the right exposure time. Especially if the animal has a dark fur the exposure time will be too long and the picture is highly overexposed.

Monkey in HDR from single RAW

 To get rid of this, it helps to take the pictures in the RAW format so that corrections afterwards are easy. Further more you could apply some techniques to improve the final result.
If there are very dark and very bright areas in the picture the DRI or HDR technique helps. The following picture is a HDR result from a RAW file of an underexposed, a normal and a overexposed picture. As you can see, the combination of the pictures gives much more details and an overall correct exposure.

Monkey in HDR from single RAW

This is another example of an HDR image produced from a RAW file. You can see in the next picture how the three originals looked like.

Beastie Boys in Locarno

On the 11th of July we went to the Beastie Boys concert in Locarno, Switzerland. The festival was called Moon & Stars 07 and during one week several different acts took place in the evening. Peter Gabriel, Zuccero, Avril Lavigne, P!nk and Muse were also part of the event at the Piazza Grande in Locarno.

Beatsteaks, Locarno 2007

Beatsteaks, Locarno 2007

The opening band was Beatsteaks, a punk/rock band from Berlin. They also have a MySpace profile if you want to read more about them. It was a good opening act as they managed to warm up the crowd quite well.

Beastie Boys, Locarno 2007

Beastie Boys, Locarno 2007

At about 10:30pm the main act Beastie Boys started and it was amazing to see them live. I didn’t know them too well, just a few songs like Fight For Your Right, Sabotage or Intergalactic. Did you know what the word “Beastie” means? I just found in wikipedia and it’s a kind of acronym:

B(oys) E(ntering) A(narchistic) S(tates) T(owards) I(nternal) E(xcellence)

The also had several good instrumental songs and mixes. That evening I also found out that MMM means Mix Master Mike.

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The show and the location was great and I’m looking forward to the 2008 festival.