Daily HDR Photo — Cloud Blanket; Traditional House
Today’s photo is of some interesting clouds over a traditional Japanese home. I haven’t done a black and white in a while, so I went for that here.
About
The house you see the top of here is to date the only traditional home I’ve seen built from the ground up. Most modern houses are constructed very cheaply; they are shipped out with everything precut and go up in a few weeks to a month. I watch these being built all the time. Last I checked, they are only rated to last about 20 years. By contrast, this traditional house took a full year of daily work to finish. I’m going to assume it will last a little longer. (I think it’s also a safe guess that it cost a lot more)
Video
This is a slideshow I made with some of my more popular photos. It is the first slideshow I’ve made, but I think it turned out pretty good.
I encoded it in 720p, which is considered HD. I’d recommend letting it load (sometimes YouTube loads fast, sometimes slow… Just depends on how busy their servers are at any given moment, I guess. Hope for the best!) and watching it that way. Any lower and it won’t look so hot.
What do you think? Like I said, this is my first real experience making one, so if you have any hints or suggestions please let me know.
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Personally I’m not a fan of the page-turn transitions and stuff like that, a simple fade from one picture to the next seems much more elegant. I’d probably also prefer a slower pace, but only because the photos are so good that I want a little longer to enjoy each one! With that said, I enjoyed watching the slideshow and I’d certainly watch any more that you make. It’s a different, very nice way to take in the images.
Hey Steve, thanks for the comment. And thanks for the suggestions. I wasn’t sure about the transitions, so I pretty much just picked them randomly. I’ll tone that down a bit next time