{"id":296,"date":"2011-03-25T03:59:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T03:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/?p=296"},"modified":"2011-03-25T04:10:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:10:59","slug":"lighting-scene-gate-insp-jem-southam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/lighting-scene-gate-insp-jem-southam\/","title":{"rendered":"Lighting Scene &#8211; Gate (insp. Jem Southam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-296 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SKMBT_C550_10111807560_0010b_lo.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/SKMBT_C550_10111807560_0010b_lo-280x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Jem Southam\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-301\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-301'>\n\t\t\t\tJem Southam &#8220;Landscape Stories&#8221;\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/southam_gate_o.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/southam_gate_o-280x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-299\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-299'>\n\t\t\t\tOriginal grading\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/southam_gate_cc.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/southam_gate_cc-280x160.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-300\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-300'>\n\t\t\t\tColour corrected\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>One of the on-going projects I started late last year was to absorb as many photographs that I touched me and try to recreate those scenes in CG. I wanted to start with this photograph by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/collections\/photography\/past_exhns\/southam\/index.html\">Jem Southam<\/a> (&#8220;Landscape Stories&#8221;). Southam&#8217;s photographs are sublime and my choosing of this particular one was more of restraining myself as to give justice to this effort of recreating a piece of art.<\/p>\n<p>As you see above I did not do such a good job regardless. Good thing it&#8217;s still a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>The colour-corrected version is something I was just playing around with; the original was how it was initially graded in Nuke, since I was rendering everything in floating-point (FP).<\/p>\n<p>The colour-corrected image explains that there&#8217;s always that bit that wants to exaggerate, to take things more dramatically. It is very easy to do that. I find that that image looks okay; it has drama, it has depth, it has a bit of the unevenness that makes it organic. But it&#8217;s not sublime. And I don&#8217;t nearly &#8211; not by breadth of the Tasman- capture the subtleties found in Southam&#8217;s picture.<\/p>\n<p>Well, back to tweaking&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the on-going projects I started late last year was to absorb as many photographs that I touched me and try to recreate those scenes in CG. I wanted to start with this photograph by Jem Southam (&#8220;Landscape Stories&#8221;). Southam&#8217;s photographs are sublime and my choosing of this particular one was more of restraining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-graphics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gtd2-4M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faulknermano.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}