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Bobigny : Mémoires d’une cité

Tal — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:29:49 +0000

Directed by Marie-Pierre Jaury

TV documentary (2007) 50′

Produced by Au fil de l’eau / France 5

Original music score

Quand l’art prend le pouvoir

Tal — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:23:59 +0000

Directed by François Lévy-Kuentz

TV documentary (2008) 2×26′

Produced by Les poissons volants / Arte

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Plugin-based photography section

Tal — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:05:24 +0000

I finally got to designing a unified photo gallery which exists independently of the posts. Some photographs are taken from the posts, while others can only be found in the gallery.

In order to make the gallery as flexible and automated as possible, I got to writing a custom PHP function which finally developed into a Wordpress plugin called Simple Lightbox Slideshow or SLS. Like most of the images on this site, it relies heavily on Lightbox 2. The plugin automates slideshow creation by simply scanning for files inside a specified folder. It was written for use on this site but it is flexible enough to be included in any Wordpress installation. You can try it out on the plugin page.

Mourir pour la voiture

Tal — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:07:52 +0000

Directed by Paul Moreira

TV documentary (2007) 52′

Produced by AMIP / Premières Lignes

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Realistic HDR tonemapping

Tal — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:39:17 +0000

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 scene exactly the way it looks in real life. Granted, it is very gratifying to use tonemapping’s dynamic range compression to manipulate light in a creative manner, with results like the photograph above. What seems like an infrared shot of a snow-covered park is actually a photograph taken on a sunny day which presented lots of variations between lights and darks. Different exposures were assembled into an HDR image which was subsequently tonemapped. The resulting 16-bit image then went through some funky monochrome channel mixing in Photoshop.

However, it is interesting to see what happens when you use tonemapping in a more discreet fashion. With everyday subjects and settings, it is possible to obtain images which otherwise could not have been captured but which do not present that “in your face” effect. For a low-resolution medium (such as a web page), you can get by with bracketing the exposure using fast continuous-shooting mode and keep the camera handheld. If people don’t move too much, the artifacts associated with HDR misalignment are reduced to a minimum. This results in ordinary-looking photographs which correspond a lot more to the scene as it was originally framed in the viewfinder. The following images illustrate the point.