HDR imaging, the proverbial crown jewel of photography tricks, has been limited to those using Adobe Photoshop for too long. For about three months now I have been researching the best freeware way to create HDR images. For those who do not know what HDR means, it stands for High Dynamic Range, which is a method of photography that attempts to capture more of the light spectrum than a traditional image. Using samples from the high and low end of the light spectrum, HDR is a digital composite of many different images at different exposures. Creating an HDR image is a complicated process, one that usually takes no less than half an hour to churn out one photo, and on top of this, your images can never be appreciated in their 64-bit native color depth because of the computer industry’s failing to upgrade monitor standards. If you are willing to put the time and effort into achieving a beautifully detailed image that HDR spits out, then pay close attention.

What you need

Creating an HDR image does not require highly-sophisticated equipment as one would think. Basically any camera with an adjustable exposure value (EV) setting can be used and will…
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Anyone who has ever tried to create their own blog knows that there are nearly one hundred different blogging platforms, Content Management Systems (CMS’s), or blog hosts to choose from. This group is comprised of software ranging from commercially licensed programs to open source piles of flaming fecal matter. About a year ago when I set up my first website I chose the open source program WordPress to be the man behind the curtain. About a year ago WordPress should have just given up. The open source blogging platform hosted a million different vulnerabilities to viruses, hackers, and itself. It was so muddled and confusing to install and maintain that Microsoft was probably calling it “son.”

Yesterday I decided to start up my personal blog again, and with this choice I needed to choose the platform to run it on. Browsing through the options that my hosting service offered, I spied WordPress. Now, I am not one to hold grudges, especially with technology. I recognize that software in the CMS world is indefinitely hard to write and program. This is only doubly troubling those open source dev’s who are writing for no profit. Meaning they have smaller amounts of money…
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Deep Thought is celebrating its third birthday! That’s right, it’s been three years ago since a handful of geeks got together and started Deep Thought. Instead of accepting gifts, we’re giving them to three lucky winners!

That’s right, we’re giving away three Mac software bundles to three lucky readers. This year’s giveaway bundles include software from The Omni Group, NewsGator, Flying Meat, and more.

What do you have to do to win? Well, nothing really. Simply visit the entry page, fill out the entry form, and cross your fingers!

Good luck, and thank you for three years of your support!

It’s been three years since we opened Deep Thought.

Three years. It sure doesn’t seem that long.

It all started on november 23, 2004, when Pilky wrote the following:

Welcome to Deep Thought, we hope you enjoy your stay. In case you don’t know who we are then here is a brief description. We are a Mac Blog site. There are five writers all with a different views on the world and on Macs. So we hope that we all give you different views on the world of Apple. Anyway, enjoy!!

We started as a Mac site, of course, but expanded beyond that soon after.

When we started Deep Thought, I don’t think any of us expected to set the world on fire. We were a tiny little outpost on the fringe of the tech blogosphere. Three years later, we’re a somewhat larger outpost, but still a spec of dust compared with some sites out there.

Running a small site like ours hasn’t been easy. It’s hard motivating others to write, especially when you can’t pay them. It’s hard establishing any sort of regular readership.  There have been some days where I wonder why I continue to write for Deep…
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