by Juan Jaramillo CC-BY-ND
Some photographers strongly disagree with HDR techniques. Well, as long as we are talking about art, it has no sense at all. Lets take a painter, he has 3 colors but he is told that if he mixes them to make a new color its not accepted.
So what if we have 3 different photographs and combine their exposures to get a new one. It's only about the way the author wants to express itself. Or there are now a bunch of technical standards for art, the language of humans. Being able to take a picture that shows exactly things how they appear was the reason why painters stopped painting as real as possible. We just want to express ourselves.
Well, whatever, here is my starting point at HDR.
What makes men so selfish upon a falling empire?
Is it OK to watch humanity dissapear while holding some brilliant minds and the power to avoid all this cataclysmic enviroment?
1. Get into adventures. Instead of saying no, say yes. Whether it’s agreeing going to the South China Sea or to Sundance festival or the grocery store.
2. Devour popular culture. Examine the work of other artists, movies, books, magazines, the interwebs.
3. Take pictures of things. I photograph things I see in the world that inspire me and use them for reference.
4. Scribble ideas. On a notepad, ipad, or whatever.
5. Share your ideas with others. Better ideas often come from a conversation. Give and receive. It’s a dialectic.
6. Ask Questions. Lots of other people know more than you do.
7. Listen. Try to listen carefully. When other people talk, you should listen. Ideas are everywhere
chaseJARVIS
Well...i hve got sooo man quesions over my youtube channel asking how this was made. Here is a simple decripion. Later will get more detail on it.
Well....what I do is simple really. I design the surface volumes I want to mapp. Then i go to Adobe After Effects and create some animations. One for each surface. For expample here i got 4. Background and 3 of the cube. I make a composition in After effects that consist of the 4 different in such a way that it"ll give me an idea of what it will look like. Then i go into each vid and create the animation.
When animations are done, I render them (INDIVIDUALLY) into separete movies.
Then i set up my projector, in a place he can "see"every surface. Then, I load up my VPT, lead each video in a different channel. After they have been loaded, y keystone each. Keystone is the process in which i take every corner of the each video and make it lineup perfectly on the respective surface.
now.....the most important part of all...................PRESS PLAY!
Juan Jaramillo
Despite all the good times, always something seems to be wrong. It's the way you decide to be so different. It's an undeniable fact that the heart works very similar in all of us. What really matters then is not the way it feels. It's how the brain outlets those feelings. What bothers me the most, is I really love the way you do it. To the point I wish I could do it the same way. I don't know the motive. It might be because I see you are just right, or because I just what to fit in and make you feel so comfortable with the situation, knowing almost nobody else will be, so that you never leave. At least for now. I've seen them fail. Actually I haven't, but you can just tell.
I sit down just to think about this things that run in my mind like crazy, and I find shelter on how desperate I act on a million problems I actually don't care about so much.
Ok, don't take it so bad now. It takes time for me to understand the way you are. It's simple. It's understandable. It's just to damn good to be true. But it's hard for anybody to understand stuff that just seems magical. It's like a wish come true. I just love that way you love. To make it worse, I haven't see you love, probably not even care about somebody. But, there is something about the way you speak, you act, you move, that just makes feel it so deep inside. It just feels right.
But now, how could I make you feel it right too. I might be at the moment just what you don't want. How can I ask for some time to learn your ways and at the same time show you I'm just going back to my real way that is just so close to your way. Or that my way won't get in the way of your way. Probably you have just had a bunch of similar promises getting nothing but the common at the.
Bottom line is, you got me writing again about stuff I don't even know if I feel and I'm just being influenced and inspired by the music I'm listening to right now. Got to stop listening to corny music and listening to the heart. I know I'm smarter than that.
This was a great exercise. My heart is giant, and feels to much, but my brain listings to nothing.
Good riddance,
The author.
My name is Juan. My last name is Jaramillo. My middle name is… nah! I can’t really like it. It's Ramon.
I have had a strong link with every creative process possible. Since I was a small kid i would love building Legos, but not the ones in the guide, just make my own. I would draw stuff all day.
Over some holydays with my parents in Spain i was issued a job i hated but afterwards came to be my passion. I was assigned the position of CAMERA BAG CARRIER. I would have cried my eyes off, but sooner than later, found out how much fun it was. Not the carry the bag, but to carry the CAMERA. I started seeing the world through that lens. I remember the camera, because today I have it, I use it. It’s a Canon A-1.
But that was it for a long time. I bought myself a digital Sony camera in a trip to USA, and started taking pictures. Suddenly I knew more stuff about photography than I expected. Started shooting everything that came to my attention, BUT, i felt i have no creative control over what I was doing.
A couple of years later while I was traveling in London, I got from my older brother a very nice present. His old Canon eos-350D. Wow, now everything changed for ever. I had the creative control. I could change lenses. I could use filters. Soon I had already two lenses and a circular polarizer, apart from the battery grip and a couple other extras. It was total freedom. This was my training.
Early this year, again while traveling in Germany; I saw what would be a flexible tool for my creative process. Soon it became my medium of expression. (Well, actually, just part of it, there is also the iMac, and Facebook and Flickr and all those things we use as well) I got a brand new Nikon D7000. Simple enough, it was inspiring. I was inspired.
A combination of creativity, a good camera and a life full of adventures traveling around the globe has led me to some astonishing pictures. Some (most!) not so good, but surely makes me feel in those places again.
Enjoy this, enjoy life, go out.
Juan R. Jaramillo
juanchu_j_hotmail.com
310-538-5102
