proud to be an american

Mr. Mark    says:

this is one of the few things the HDR technique works really well with. nicely done, again!
:o)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Nick Harrison    says:

Awesome colour and a great use of HDR
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Faborito    says:

Joe you are the HDR master!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Leviathor    says:

Is this on Explore yet? lol.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

gillesC    says:

great colors
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

u.linder    says:

wow!
looks like a computer generated car out of a video game!
great hdr work, joe! i agree with el fabo, you are the hdr master!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

fuguito says:

wonderful!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Di..... [deleted] says:

Cool truck, Joe! Great effects!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Guav    says:

Do you ever stop with the amazing pictures?!
:)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

*hb19    says:

I really like the perspective, the character of the truck stands out like this guy is a patriotic american
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

merkley???    says:

another great hdr -- keep the car series goin -- it's turning out great.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

digicla    says:

I like the angle, truck fits nice in the frame. Superb.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Joe Cashin    says:

The cars and trucks come out great, well done.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

baby7    says:

Beautiful shot, well presented
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Mace2000    says:

Very good title!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Dr Tao says:

WOW! Fantastically impressive and... yes, symbolical! Love this title - it adds just a new dimension to this luscious image!
re: Thank You! Look forward to see it in the "Guten Tag" pool!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

eye of einstein    says:

Great image Kris..
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Dean Forbes    says:

you make these rustbuckets look good!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

raciborer says:

Does all this beautifull trucks grown up near you Kris? You can show them :-)))
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

pixability    says:

You have to stop posting such consistently awesome pictures...it sets the bar far to high.
Just kidding, I love them -keep at it.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

tommylane    says:

Awesome image.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

oybay    says:

Now, that's a Ford Bronco!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

SimonL    says:

Stunning!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Archer's Eye    says:

Dig it!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

jackfrench    says:

Coool
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Orcoo    says:

Great pic HDR.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

*ian*    says:

When's the game coming out!! :)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

jimall    says:

Awesome work!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

moriza    says:

WHOA... great treatment... how did you do the contrast adjustment like this? cool technique!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

DBCondit [deleted] says:

I don't know how you do it, but I love it! Too cool!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

ßlϋeωãvε says:

How many exposures do you use on these Joe? Three?
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

6 exp, Tim.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

* Toshio * (Globetrotting)    says:

Awesome HDR!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Cassadota says:

Very very cool. Okay, I have to try and learn how to do this, which will likely be a dissapointment -- but hey! This is just awesome. I'd love this on my wall!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

moriza    says:

I guess I am way behind here... what's HDR?
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Padrone    says:

Stunning!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

kellislose    says:

Another Awesome piece of art Joe!!
I was just listening to that song today!!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

KBlood    says:

www.flickr.com/groups/thisisamerica/
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Wind Blossom    says:

Ford is definitely "a whole lotta American". Fantastic work!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

pixability    says:

Just saw this on the Explore main page Joe!! Congradulations!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

@Wind Blossom: Thanks, Sis. Your presence always makes my world so bright and sunny. ^_^

@pixability: Thanks, man. That's great news.

@KBlood: Posted proudly in your group thisisamerica.

@moriza: Check my HDR Set and you will find some info on HDR.

@raciborer: I keep on looking for them.

@ALL: I like to write each and everyone's name but I'm just doing something right now. I love all your support and friendly comments. Thank you for helping this image reach the Explore page.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

ms4jah    says:

Hi Joe and congrats again, I just saw this on front page explore!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

Thanks, Michael. Lujza, our Wind Blossom, has a new series of flower pictures. The others are also invited to see my sister's flowers. They are really so good.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

/\ltus    says:

Great object and colors for the shot! Rendering great as always!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

**Anna    says:

Fantastic work! Really well done!

Thanks for the invite... :)
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Gary*    says:

Intense colour work!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

aracellitakesphotos    says:

Great HDR Shot..the red came out amazing!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

pfflyers1 says:

that would be a cool restore vehical
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

Thanks everyone.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

samuelmelim [deleted] says:

AWESOME.....
Your work is impressive....
No words to describe!
Really tks to show us your art!!!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

bsidez    says:

another great shot of a car, nice composition!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

P Y E R says:

da color power!!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Ten Directions    says:

great work!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

GIJON    says:

Brilliant!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

CharlieBrown8989    says:

Great title & great work...

You put alots of enrgy & drive in your site..

I am totally impressed, up & 3.00am & visiting my post!!

I appreciate your everything.....
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Cid*    says:

Great, as usual!!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

exhibitj says:

Your HDR is by far the best I've seen on flickr. You've gotta write a tutorial on it!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Domain Barnyard    says:

"Built Ford Tough"! This is great, and definately All American! Right down to the AAA sticker! Excellent HDR!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

LucaPicciau says:

Wow!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Jim Moran    says:

Like a painting. Awesome use of HDR.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

tbone805    says:

you do such an amazing job of getting a hand-painted feel to these. this one is particularly incredible to me.
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

paose73    says:

bellissimo effetto
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

C Buckley    says:

wicked!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

arutha    says:

Beautiful colors and rendering!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

mammarazzi mom says:

Your HDR is AMAZING. I am so glad I found your sets!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

★ mewot ★ says:

: ) love the red
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Dragan Fly    says:

Kris, you do keep finding wonderful stuff to capture with your lens!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Hudlu [deleted] says:

Amazing!!!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Jeff Clow    says:

Superb imagery, Joe....!
Posted 40 months ago. ( permalink )

Alejandro Voorduin    says:

I´ve never done HDR, and while i liked it, I´ve never been too interested in going for the process with my photos... that is, before I saw this one.

Bautiful, congrats.
Posted 39 months ago. ( permalink )

Ypsy    says:

Couldn't be better!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

*Ivan* says:

Thank u for adding it to the interestingness pool
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

my satori [deleted] says:

unbelieveable... genius!!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

David Nat says:

Another great shot!
Posted 36 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

@el zorro: I'm pretty sure that you are one of those who hate HDRs no matter what.

But nevertheless, I need to answer back since you brought your slimy remarks on my photostream.

You said,

the problem with HDR rendered images is that right now they don't look real - the toning is wrong.

Well, what do you know then. As a seasoned practitioner of HDR after producing hundreds and was featured on New York Times because of what I produced, I can rebuke what you said.

In my opinion, HDR is another tool available not only to photographers but to everyone who is involved in pictures like film industries, arts and most specially, the 3D world of images.

Most definitely, HDR can produce a real life scene with a litte bit of a WOW effect just to be different from a normal photography. And in your definition, I believed that's what you called the "Right Toning."

But I totally disagree. And here's why.

For me, I use HDR to express my ART. As I've mentioned when I was interviewed by New York Times, you can easily turn a normal photo that is well composed into something like a painting. Hence, it becomes a real work of art.

HDR does not have to be just a mere saturation, contrast or color tool. Photoshop and others can do that. This is a special tool that, in my honest opinion, elevates photography into another realm of art.

Now art can be loved or can be hated. As the saying goes, beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.

HDR rendered photos will never be exactly how you see the world. It's another way of capturing a scene that will never be repeated in artistic way.

My HDRs have evolved tremendously in a short period of time.

I'm proud of all my HDRs including this picture. It was my art, my way of expression and will always be proud of what I came up for my flickr friends and others to view.

I don't know exactly what was your agenda in coming to my photostream and yanked out that "toning is wrong."

My toning or my rendition could be wrong for you. But let me tell you that my HDRs have inspired so many flickrites to try their hands on HDR. Even some great ones.

And the picture above, by the way, was printed in the New York Times edition when I was featured. And also featured prominently on flickr Explore.

And HDR made me popular. Can you believe that?
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

janoid    says:

BRAVO!!!
I agree with everything you said, Joe!
HDR is process that is applied by the photographer to his/her taste, to acheive the effect he/she chooses. It can be quite realistic, or very artistic, the result being a personal rendering of the original photo(s). It is another tool, to be used (or not) in the amazing and broadening medium of digital photography!

I appreciate your exploration with HDR! You have opened up the technique to show how versatile it is, and to expose the process and it's possibilities to many people, like myself, who would have never otherwise known much about it!

I am grateful that you choose to share your vast and versatile talent, which inspires us to try new techniques, and to push the medium of digital photography into digital art!!!
BRAVO!!!

P.S. LOL about that "popular" comment!! I have no doubt that you were a star LONG before you ever dabbled in HDR!! :)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

Thanks, Jan, for a well-thought, very sincere reply. Honest to goodness, I'm so lucky to meet you on Flickr.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

ms4jah    says:

Hi Joe,
Thanks to all your relenteless hdr images I finally figured I should try hdr. I found out it was not easy, But I loved the results so much I quickly paid $100 for the software. I never would have done that if not for your influence.

Hey, I just thought of something, maybe you should speak to the people at photomatix. Maybe they will sponser you or something. You help make them so much money!! Hahahah!. True.

Although I don't do hdr too often, I am so glad I have this as one option in my 'bag of tricks' as a photographer. I know that if I have to or If I want to, I can use to hdr effect to produce a result that I could not get otherwise. It is another valuable tool that I have now learned to use. And the truth is, it was hard and frustrating to learn how to use it. The average person will never do it.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

merkley???    says:

hey joe,

no need to justify your art to some ignoramus that can't even wrap his head around the glaring fact that there is never any right or wrong in art and that it's all totally subjective -- you do what you do and you do it well.

holy crap, the level of doofusness just never ceases to bore me.

GO KRIS KROS!!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

lawatha    says:

You rock Joe... let 'er rip!
Some people just won't ever get it. It's not meant to look like a regular picture a photograph... it's a work of art. You have every right to be proud of every HDR you've ever done... I'm proud right along with you. You are a true artist in every sense of the word and a fabulous photographer as well. A delightful combination- Way to go!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Stefano Prigione    says:

Dear Joe,
it's an old trick.
He's envious about your work and popularity and try this technique, to attack you so all the people know him.
Infact he puts some of his images on your very visible photostream...
The best is to ignore, if someone don't like...click away...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

merkley???    says:

who ever once said HDR is to make things look more REAL?

realism in art is pretty much an oxymoron anyway.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

merkley???    says:

"fanboyism"
hardly.

you just say dumb shit -- that's all, i know my way around art, it's no foreign subject to me.

but since you seem to be hooked on the subject of "realism", the photomatix people have certainly explained it better than you have. when one stands in front of an orange van and studies it, one's irises enlarge and contract depending on where one is looking therefore making it easy for one to see details that a flat print from a camera ignores. hdr compensates for that a bit by giving you the detail that fully enlarged irises might give as well as tightly contracted ones.

i know it can be hard to grasp the concept that even printed words on a page describing an event -- even without pictures -- might also be described as "realism" -- which is why i called you an ignoramus for failing to comprehend that "realism" is purely subjective and based upon the story and the details an artist wishes to convey.

example:
dreams are real.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

thnkfst    says:

Love your response to el_zorro. I think people who are jealous try to put down great photos because they are just plain negative...
And they want to think they can find something wrong.

I'd agree though, great/quality HDR's make you popular!

Great work!


--
Seen on your photo stream. (?)
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

pixability    says:

Joe, great work gains recognition and critics. el_zorro obviously falls into the later category. Myy question is why would someone so repulsed by such photographic works click on the image and further comment on it. I suspect it goes deeper and likely does not deserve a responce.

On a personal note I appreciate your HDR work and that of so many others on flickr. It is new, and that threatens the "experienced" dogmatic bound photographers as "un-authentic". But I believe just as color was accepted and BW retained, there is a place for HDR with any level of tonemapping. The work I've seen is compelling and prompted me to dabble as well. Thank you and simply count the admiration against the mean spirited detraction. The balance is clear.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

Kris Kros    says:

zorro or zorry, you said it. Get ovet it. And I guess you're not a kid anymore.

You need some help. Stop throwing up and stop this crap.
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

*Sherry*    says:

There's not much to add... Janoid, merkley???, and Pixability have said it really well.

There's no need to respond to el_zorro.

He's just doing this to get a response out of you, in another words, he's trying to push your buttons.

Your art is impressive and very inspiring :)
Keep it up!
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

!Kengaroo    says:

Well I must add that I for one am inspired by your work Joe, and now I've got the HDR bug ( THANKS a lot... lol). I'm in no way in ( or anyway near) your league of HDR photography Joe but I have to say it's given me a great hobby (that's turning into a passion).
I'm just a beginner at this stage but LOVE it. I cruise your photo stream when ever I get the chance and no matter how many times I view your work I for one can NEVER get sick of it. I read all the links you share with us about HDR and can't thank you enough for all the advice you share with us on flickr.
So all I can say is keep up the BRILLIANT work and I look forward to viewing you pics in the future.
P.S .......Kris .......... @ zorro......... I was told by my parents at an early stage in life that it's best never to argue with children or IDIOTS ........ Not sure which one zorro is
Posted 34 months ago. ( permalink )

radikaos_ak says:

A truly American scene an old truck next to what I can only assume is a shed. Also the HDR twist is great and inventive.
Posted 28 months ago. ( permalink )

linse_lus says:

perfect. one of the best hdrs ive seen
Posted 27 months ago. ( permalink )

schwede123 says:

Wunderschön gemacht.....

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You are my winner!
Please add this photo to
www.flickr.com/groups/mywinners/
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Bissingerbooks    says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Artistic Liberty with the Stars and Stripes, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 17 months ago. ( permalink )