Los Angeles Digital Imaging Group Blog

First of all – my thanks to Lee and Mark for setting up this space to knock around ideas and hopefully generate a bit of interest in some of the stuff that might otherwise escape our notice in the blur of activity we’re involved in every day. Hopefully I’ll be able to avoid inane posts referring the recent release of Photospray or any further mention of Photoshop Your Pooch.

So let me just dive with the first thing that grabbed my attention today.  Microsoft has released their gold master version of the HD Photo plugin for Photoshop. Bill Crow is the chap at Microsoft heading up the project and over at his blog he has a profusion of information on the format and its requisite usage of a new color space they had to come up with. If you go here you can find all the dirt on what they (the boys and girls at Redmond)  expect of this new file format. Much of the stuff on these sites is pretty dang geeky even for me so just scoot past all the gamma displays, pixel count arrays and get the plugin and see what you think about it.  I don’t shoot a whole lot of HDR – images that have high dynamic range and therefore need multiple exposures to blend together, compensating for the limits of the capturing sensor’s range. However, just to satisfy my curiosity, I’ll be fooling around with this in the next few days and I’ll post my findings here.  Maybe some of  you can also. I’d certainly be interested.  -je