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January 18, 2008

Hyper imaging

Hyper imaging: This is a John Nack kind of item (sure 'nuff), but I want application developers to see it too. Check out the photographs at that Flickr link! People are taking multiple photos of the same scene, with different camera settings, and merging them together in software to create images more real than ordinary photos. See Wikipedia for an intro to High Dynamic Range Imaging, and WIRED for an interview with Adobe's Kevin Connor. Sure, these pictures are pretty, even luscious, but what's my point? This HDR works shows that we're still really just at the beginning of using personal digital technologies effectively. Ten years ago I thought we knew nearly everything about capturing natural imagery, and I was wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Once we get past improving old processes with new technology, we start seeing entirely new processes we can attempt. The road stretches out further, past the top of the next hill. Adobe's duty is to make these technologies accessible to anyone who cares to use them, and to make money in the new, larger ecosystem which results. If you're doing browser work or application work today, please page through these images submitted to Flickr... what we'll be able to do tomorrow is even larger than what we can see today.

Posted by JohnDowdell at January 18, 2008 01:02 PM

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Posted by: Rick Mason at January 18, 2008 02:19 PM