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HDRI construction set

A few days ago I had to travel to Washington DC to a photo shoot for a client. It was an exciting day as we had to photograph one of the nicest historic buildings in the city. What I didn’t know was I was going to find miself shooting in the “depths of hell”. Once in the place I noticed how cool shooting different exposures and blending them would be, there was very little light so most exposures were 30 seconds or more. Well, here is the result, enjoy and comment!!

Carlos Cristerna

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Times Square 2012

(ok, after someone used my blog to post some Viagra adds and I removed them here is the new real post!) A few days ago I went to NY to work, amongst the things I had to do was a photo shoot and I ended up on the roof of a building in Times Square, I was carrying a lot of stuff so my brother met me at Penn Station and help me get there with the gear (he is the one napping under the dolly). We had a good time, the weather was nice and the view was great. So we ended up just shooting photos and watching people go by. Enjoy and comment!!

Carlos Cristerna

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Dynamic Perception Dolly test 01

Yesterday a couple of friends (Jason and Luis) and I went to the Boston ICA to test Neoscape’s new toy, the Dynamic perception dolly (dynamicperception.com). It is a great and simple tool to expand on your creative photography arsenal, there are many possibilities to use it and it also requires some practice to get something good looking (excuse why mine are not that good….yet!). The cloud time lapse was a very simple one done in 30 min with a continuos move my 7D and a 15mm fish eye lens, there was a lot of wind so it was easy to get the clouds moving. The second one is of my house fire place and it was a bit more complicated to shoot, what I was trying to do was calculate how many photos I had to shoot in 3 hours and travel the 6 feet of the dolly (the time the log more or less lasts on fire) so that I could get the log form the time it was lit to the time the fire went out, for this one I used the 7D and a 50mm lens and in a different mode where the dolly shoots, moves, stops and wait for the camera to save the image then shoots again and so on. Both ended up OK looking but ultimately they are just tests, hopefully we will use this at work more and in more creative ways.

Carlos Cristerna

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La fotografía dentro de la computadora

Weathers Permitting for William O’Brien, MoMA/PS 1 Young Architects Program from Neoscape on Vimeo.

Hace mucho que no subo nada de trabajo en 3D, pues pensé que como ya se me ha pasado mucho el tiempo voy a empezar de nuevo con una animación que creo es el principio de una faceta en la que me he enfocado en animar camaras y la composición de la imagen (fotografía). Este proyecto fue la perfecta combinación para poder hacer lo que fuera con el trabajo de fotografía, el proyecto lo hicimos para un joven arquitecto que estaba compitiendo para desarrollar una exhibición en MoMA NY la cual se lleva a cabo cada año, y pues como la estábamos haciendo ¨pro bono¨ pues pude hacer básicamente lo que fuera pero con un presupuesto bajo. Así pues me concentre en hacer el trabajo en 3D bien simple, y poner el mayor esfuerzo en experimentar con la cámara, edición y composición dando paso a el trabajo de cámara de animaciones mas complejas como Airport stories y Arrivals que hicimos como trabajo interno a manera de experimento en Neoscape (vean el área de Film en mi blog donde están esas dos animaciones), la siguientes animaciones creo son resultado de la aplicación de estos experimentos en algunos de los proyectos que hemos hecho para Safdie Architects recientemente.

Fusion Design Competition, Safdie Architects from Neoscape on Vimeo.

Chongqing Mixed-Use Complex, Safdie Architects from Neoscape on Vimeo.

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Carlos Cristerna