About Stuck in Customs / Trey Ratcliff  

I have my full profile on my blog at www.stuckincustoms.com

...and many people have enjoyed my HDR Tutorial

Artist Bio - Trey Ratcliff

Photography is my right brain activity to keep myself balanced. I have a unique approach to photography because of my computer science and math background, and I seek to use cutting edge software technology to change the way people’s brains process pictures and pattern-match.

Facebook (for which I feel too old): ID: 502475833
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My Full Bio is on the "About Me" page of my blog here.



On the weekends while traveling, I usually grab my iPod and go get lost to find interesting adventures with my camera. I use a Nikon D2X, in case you were wonderin’. In the picture below, I hung out with some Amish children for the day, but I prefer to hang out with my own children, who are considerably better at video games.

Please enjoy my best pictures that my cool fans seem to dig the most! Thanks all for the nice comments!

Many people ask for my my HDR Tutorial... so here is a link



About HDR – High Dynamic Range

I specialize in a new trend called High Dynamic Range photography. HDR enables the photographer to create a color and light palette that goes beyond the normal aperture and shutter speed of the basic shot.

In my judgment, a well-executed HDR image is evocative of the actual scene itself. When a human eye is actually on location, it is constantly moving, adjusting the pupil size, allowing in more light in some areas, less in others, and the brain actually works to build a patch-like vision of the scene. That is what we remember in our mind’s eye: an idealized super-realistic memory of the scene. HDR appeals to those people that actually see the world like this.

HDR normally involves multiple exposures of a scene at different stops (i.e. +4, +2, 0, -2, -4). These images are then processed and tone mapped for contrast and luminosity settings in sort of a techno-custom-software-darkroom until a light balance is achieved. HDR can also be used with single exposures in RAW format with a similar tone mapping process.

For more information on HDR, I write a lot about it here on my blog.

And to end, here is a picture of me with one of my Buddhist monk friends, Sokhoun, at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Like the Amish children, he is also horrible at video games.



Oh, also, I like to draw. I don't think I am very good yet, but it seems to help my photography a bit. Here is a link to some recent work:

I'm Male and Taken.

Stuck In Customs
Austin, USA