Blog Entry
MooseCamp, PhotoCamp
While my last post on Northern Voice covered the conference as a whole, the portion I'm excited is PhotoCamp at MooseCamp. PhotoCamp, as the name implies, is focused on photography and collaboratively presented by the many talented photographers attending Northern Voice. Kris Krug is the man responsible for pulling it all together while Warwick Patterson, Bre Pettis, Evan Lesson, and myself will be giving presentations on a variety of topics.
In case you need to be told, everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. More are welcome to present, but contact Kris (kk@kriskrug.com) or myself (site+photocamp@matttrent.com) to discuss topics.
When + where
The date is Friday, February 23. Currently, we are shooting for the 2 sessions scheduled from 1:15-2:45, starting immediately after lunch and concluding with the break planned for 2:45. Check the scheduling board the day of MooseCamp to find out the location and any potential change in times.
Field trip
During the break, we'll collect those interested to take a field trip to my research lab across the street. This has two purposes:
- To have another room to continue any PhotoCamp discussion we didn't have time to finish during the allotted block
- To see the project I have been working on for the last several years: the DR37-P high dynamic range display that my company, BrightSide Technologies, has built.
I'll leave most of the specs for the product page, but the DR37-P uses an array of individually modulated LED backlights to provide 10 times the brightness and 100 times the contrast of existing televisions and computer monitors. The 37" display has a 1080p resolution, with 16-bits of color per channel, 0.15 cd/m^2 black levels, and whites over 3000 cd/m^2 equaling a contrast ratio of 200,000:1.
Basically, it's the first step towards a TV you'd mistake for a window. Any description I do can't do it justice. You'll just have to come see. Anyone with an interest in high dynamic range photography or imaging, expensive toys, or generally shiny things should not miss this.
My topics
I'll get more of the specifics and supporting material posted in the next day or two, but here is a 30-second run down of the topics I'll be covering. I'm not certain if I can fit all of them into my allotted slot during the main PhotoCamp session, so I might have to switch one to the after event, depending on group interest.
High dynamic range (HDR) imaging
- Since I'll be showing the HDR display, I'll cover the process of creating HDR images
- Background
- What HDR imaging is, and (equally importantly) what it isn't
- Currently available methods
- Software packages
- Short tutorial on how to create HDR images using one of them
Color for digital photography and the web
- Quick coverage of color science for photographers
- Discuss why getting colors right is such a problem
- Hardware challenges
- Software challenges
- What you can do about it