Author Archives: Tal

Realistic HDR tonemapping

By Tal | Published: October 24, 2007

Lately I’ve spent some time experimenting with HDR tonemapping using Photomatix Pro and Photoshop. I find that most examples you bump into on the web demonstrate the ability of tonemapping to create very striking and surreal images. But actual benefit of this technique, in my opinion, is that it allows a photographer to capture a [...]

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Châteaux de Lastours

By Tal | Published: October 8, 2007

The following photographs are some basic experiments I did with HDR tonemapping vs traditional masking techniques in Photoshop. The view from atop the Châteaux de Lastours, brightly lit, had obviously a very high dynamic range in terms of light energy. I have tried capturing it using two methods. The first one simply involved shooting two [...]

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u3 and OS X

By Tal | Published: August 3, 2007

I never thought that getting a brand-new USB key to work could turn into a configuration nightmare, requiring trips to four separate utilities and two operating systems. This is what happened last week with the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 2GB USB Flash Drive. This USB key uses a SanDisk-developed technology called U3 (obnoxiously marketed with the slogan “It’s what’s next. It’s what’s smart.”)

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Train and train station

By Tal | Published: July 26, 2007

Two shots taken during a recent trip to the south of France.

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Jugglers

By Tal | Published: July 24, 2007

Friday night on the banks of the Seine. Many thanks to performers Isabelle and Guillaume for their permission to post these photographs.

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Wayne Shorter in Paris : effects shots

By Tal | Published: July 20, 2007

I’m starting to add a few posts showing some of the work I did which involved shooting and special effects. The following clip shows some of the visual effects I created for Marie-Pierre Jaury’s documentary on Wayne Shorter. The idea behind all this was to present Shorter as an infinitely-wise alien bringing love, music and [...]

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Beijing : Weiqi

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007

This is a short clip I shot of two people sitting in a street of Beijing and playing a game of Go (in China, the game is called Weiqi [pronounced, more or less, "way-chee"]). Although originally a Chinese game, Weiqi isn’t played very often by Chinese people (it has evolved into its current form after [...]

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Beijing : Night

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007

A few photographs of Beijing at night, mainly around the Forbidden City.

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Beijing : Day

By Tal | Published: May 23, 2007

A short series of photographs from my recent trip to the Chinese capital.

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Irak: Agonie d’une nation

By Tal | Published: February 3, 2007

Directed by Paul Moreira TV documentary (2007) 63′ Produced by AMIP / Premières Lignes AVID Editor After Effects Animator

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