Hey deviants, I must admit I miss those of you I interact with in this odd land of the net. Today I'm returning from my far from brief Hiatus period. This post is somewhat ironic to me as I posted a nearly identical one last June and then promptly disappeared for 8 months. While I cannot promise something similar won't happen, I have renewed my subscription, halted my watch status on several clubs so I won't get overloaded by them and gained a little time. If you did noticed my absence, then have no fear FroBoys here! If you didn't then no worries, but with a little luck and some persistence I'm back, and here to stay





As I said in my header, I have been on long hiatus and boy am I glad to be back. I can't really call it a forced hiatus, I just haven't really been taking pictures as of last semester. With a new annual subscription I should be back to some semblance of normal activity! (As intermittent as that may have been ) Just like my last return I plan to go through the people I have been neglecting and comment and favorite all the wonderful deviations I've missed. On my last return I said I planned to do Monthly features, well this time it's going to happen! The first feature is the HDR feature below that was intended for July of 2008. It might be seven months late, but it's still stunning to me. Give it a look-see. The features might not get much traffic here, but it's my attempt to support community members I enjoy.







I fell in love with High Dynamic Range photography as soon as I saw what it could do. The simple surreal beauty created when you force a range of perception into the shot that a camera isn't able to capture with a single photo amazes me consistently. Hence this feature, below are fifteen images by fifteen different Deviant Art Artists. All of which are amazing in my eyes. If you like them head on over to their pages and take a look at their other deviations!



 by =Allegoria-Images       by *lalas                          by *Nyarlotep

by ~Grafs                          by ~kory83                     by =Bjay70

 by ~McMichi                     by ~FarStar90                 by =metallilan

by ~stg123                       by ~minlie                       by =Taragon

by ~erasemydisease        by ~simenkon                 by =MrArtsy


Each of the above Deviations was handpicked from hundreds of HDR images for a veraity of reasons, if the authors of them would like them removed for any reason please contact me and I will do so immediately.







When I first created my Deviant Art account it was to comment on works by my good friends *TriforceWarrior and ~Chibi-Pandachan. From there it slowly evolved into a digital gallery for the few bits of photography I considered remotely viewable, and that was it until I posted some old game comics. However, even then I kept them separate from the photography becouse I didn't consider it art. Now I'm changing my definition of art, and will be posting the four Halo 3 screen captures from my scraps to my gallery. I realized as I was taking a screen capture the other day that I go through the same process to make them as I do with my photography. I aim the shot, choose the settings, zoom in or out and change the depth of field followed by post editing. The difference was that it was a pre-rendered engine. As a photographer though, I can't argue that I'm making the light, so reality might as well be a pre-rendered engine as well. Because of this Screen captures might become a staple in my posting here. I hope you enjoy them!







That's it for today, see you around the net deviants!