Prince Regent Royal Pavilion : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Prince Regent Royal Pavilion / Dominic's pics
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Part of a set photographs of the Prince Regent's Royal Pavilion (also known as Brighton Pavilion).Built in the Indo-Saracenic style, borrowing ideas from Indian architecture in the days when that region was still part of the British Empire.Unlike the originals, the building's frame is Cast Iron - cutting edge technology at the time when the building was redeveloped by the architect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Nash_(architect) are actually very small scale - much too small for an adult to fit inside. Like the shrunken higher up windows and tapering outline of the Senate House of London University, the reduction in size of the minarets adds to the illusion of scale.The viewpoint (often used in picture postcards) is also deceptive. By perching the camera on the edge of a small (four paces by ten paces) ornamental pond, the false impression is created that the pavilion is adjacent to a huge lake. There is an official Royal Pavilion website.During Work War II, Adolf Hitler is famously claimed to have spared the Pavilion from bombing because he wanted to use it has his English headquarters. This is reputed to be based on statements by William Joyce, an American born German radio propaganda broadcaster (named Lord Haw-Haw by British listeners), statements presumably made to demoralise listeners into the belief that this outcome was inevitable. Brighton was bombed, however, so maybe the Luftwaffe just missed.The image is made up from High Dynamic Range (HDR) files. A large number of (identically framed) bracketed exposures were merged into a single HDR file. This 32 bits per channel file (over 4 billion shades of red, green or blue) was converted to a more mundane 8 bits per channel jpeg file. (It is not currently technically feasible to fully display 4 billlion shades per colour on a computer monitor, or on a print.) In the conversion process Local Adaptation was used, a trick that enables the detail in both very bright (floodlit) areas and very dark (moonlit) areas to be viewed in the same image. The human visual system is particularly sensitive to detecting edges, and "overlooks" intervening smooth gradients. This makes Local Adaptation a viable technique / optical illusion.The image has also been modified using transformations to remove any barrel distortion, and also adapted to ensure a classical perspective with parallel verticals.A Canon 300D DSLR was used. The number of exposures ranged from 1/250 sec. to 30 secs. in 2 EV/stop increments. Two large, nervous, ornamental carp live in the pool. I think that they moved about between exposures, causing the feint, strange, multiple streaks in the surface of the pond. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-03-02 14:22:09 |
| 撮影者 | Dominic's pics |
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| 撮影地 | Brighton, England, United Kingdom 地図 |