Someone forgot to turn on the philtower

[sgrizzle]

I was playing around with my camera this morning, noticed the philtower is apparently turned off. No exterior lights to speak of. Any ideas?

Also, here is what I took this morning:

[Conan71]

Whoa, that's cool!  Turn it into a post card.

[inteller]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

Whoa, that's cool!  Turn it into a post card.

yeah, we can call it "Tulsa on Acid"

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

I was playing around with my camera this morning, noticed the philtower is apparently turned off. No exterior lights to speak of. Any ideas?

Also, here is what I took this morning:

Were you playing around with HDRI ?

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar


Were you playing around with HDRI ?

Yeah. After I took all my sources images this morning, I found out my exposure settings weren't right.. so these aren't as good as they could be.

Just did this one too:

[dsjeffries]

Depending on what time you took it, Philtower would have been off...

It seems that after 11pm or midnight they turn off the exterior lights.  Usually, the neon stays lit, though.  What time did you take the pics?

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by DScott28604

Depending on what time you took it, Philtower would have been off...

It seems that after 11pm or midnight they turn off the exterior lights.  Usually, the neon stays lit, though.  What time did you take the pics?

5:45am

[dsjeffries]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by DScott28604

Depending on what time you took it, Philtower would have been off...

It seems that after 11pm or midnight they turn off the exterior lights.  Usually, the neon stays lit, though.  What time did you take the pics?

5:45am

Wow, that's wayyyy too early for me..

Also, probably why the lights were off.

Go before ~midnight and you'll have better luck.

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

quote:Originally posted by Gaspar


Were you playing around with HDRI ?

Yeah. After I took all my sources images this morning, I found out my exposure settings weren't right.. so these aren't as good as they could be.

Just did this one too:

What HDRI compiler are you using.  Very nice look!

[sgrizzle]

qtpfsgui

it's free.

[Gaspar]

quote:Originally posted by sgrizzle

qtpfsgui

it's free.

I've tried it.  I like the result you are getting, much better than I've been able to achieve with QTPFS.

FDRTools is free and gives a good result too.  A bit clunky though.  

When you have an extra $60 bucks, buy a copy of Photomatrix.  It's by far the best.