Comments on: Ecuadorean Sky (Boing Boing Flickr Pool)

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:51:00 +0000

Is it green?

By: Jonathan Růžek

Jonathan Růžek — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:47:00 +0000

Porter, could you please provide a high-res version of your image that’s suitable for my 28″ monitor? :)
Absolutely wonderful work.

By: Angie Coco Colina

Angie Coco Colina — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:58:00 +0000

A place I’d love to call home again… memories….

By: dumbeast

dumbeast — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:11:00 +0000

Lovely colors and tones throughout. I’m especially fond of those clouds in the middle distance. A Picture of Ecuadorian Gray.

I am very sorry that I was unable to not say that.

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:45:00 +0000

I took a photo like that once in Washington State.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15452162@N00/1388424417/

By: Heather Thompson

Heather Thompson — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:38:00 +0000

How BEAUTIFUL!!! Thank you for sharing! I have, just within the past couple of years, found that I really, really enjoy taking pictures. It has come fairly naturally for me to get some good shots, but WHEW!!! Good Job! I can only pray that some day I have an opportunity to take a picture like that! The pic is breathtaking, I cant even imagine what it must have felt like to actually be there in person!

By: grs

grs — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 01:45:00 +0000

That’s pretty badass.

By: DataShade

DataShade — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:58:00 +0000

Why is BoingBoing promoting photos from people who disable downloading on their Flickr page?

By: dmal

dmal — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:51:00 +0000

It’s a great capture, sorry for the sarcasm. I probably would’ve narrowed the range a bit I suppose, but using DRI to expand the range of and image without losing the realism is tricky. You made the most of a great opportunity. Props!

By: librtee_dot_com

librtee_dot_com — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:56:00 +0000

I just got myself a new desktop wallpaper. Bravo.

By: Porter Yates

Porter Yates — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:17:00 +0000

Since I’ve lurked on bb for several years I guess now would be an appropriate time for my 1st post. Thanks Xeni for the link and to everyone else for the comments.

As for the EXIF. The image is uses DRI which is similar to HDR but without the tone-mapping. I had to do this in order to capture the entire high contrast scene. To properly expose the sky meant the dark green hills would be deep black. To expose the hills correctly meant the sky would be blown out white. I took three exposures at -3, -1 and +1 exposure stops. The images were then merged in Photoshop where I selected the properly exposed areas from each image. The reason the EXIF shows 1/5000 for a shutter speed is that I used the darkest image as the base and copied the lighter exposures on top of it. The exif isn’t detailed enough to show three different shutter speeds. Anyway, glad you guys liked it.

By: opmaroon

opmaroon — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:42:00 +0000

I knew I shouldn’t have looked at the EXIF. I’m all confused now.

1/5000 sec?

By: dmal

dmal — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:19:00 +0000

That’s a great shop, I mean shot.

By: dculberson

dculberson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:07:00 +0000

Gorgeous!!

@boingboing-555d6702c950ecb729a966504af0a635:disqus – you want to know how I can tell you are (or were) a Farker? ;-)

By: Adjam Oliver

Adjam Oliver — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:58:00 +0000

Reminds me of when I was in a mountainous region of Peru, the clouds were flat and it looked as if the mountain was an island and the clouds were a sea.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:55:00 +0000

With photos this amazing in the boing boing pool, there’s no hope any of mine will ever get greenlit. Dammut…

Wonderful painting! Er, I mean, photo!

By: Noctilucent Studios

Noctilucent Studios — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:15:00 +0000

Wow.

and Wow again. That is magnificent.

By: Guest

Guest — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:11:00 +0000

Magnificent!

By: Ricardo Aguiar

Ricardo Aguiar — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:01:00 +0000

=) Ecuador its a beautiful place, did you know that a 3 – 4 hour drive from there and you could be relaxing at the beaches in Machalilla National Park?

By: relawson

relawson — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:45:00 +0000

n/t

By: Blinde Schildpad

Blinde Schildpad — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:42:00 +0000

Whoah.

By: Lobster

Lobster — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:26:00 +0000

This is why we invented cameras.

I hope the guy wasn’t arrested for plotting to blow up the sky.