Portland Photo Thread

[urbanlife]

dont joke about that, downtown portland gators are very deadly...there has been three bicyclists killed so far this year.

[Sekkle]

A few quick photos

Downtown & SoWa from Sellwood...




From the Ross Island Bridge...


From the west hills...


10th st in the Pearl...


Mt Hood. I can't wait to try this shot again on a clear day after it rains or something. It was a little hazy yesterday...

[PacificNW]

Great shots! Thanks! I am amazed how fast the SoWa is growing! A lot of Pearl street activity in the streetcar shot....

[philopdx]

Here is another HDR shot. This is looking down from my building on 5th Avenue. Believe it or not, I had to desaturate the trees a little bit to make it look real.

[philopdx]

Here is another HDR experiment featuring Fox Tower.

[PacificNW]

Being the bonehead I am I wasn't sure what HDR is so I Googled. Here is a pretty good explanation (I think).


High dynamic range imaging
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.
High dynamic range imaging was originally developed in the 1930s and 1940s by Charles Wyckoff. Wyckoff's detailed pictures of nuclear explosions appeared on the cover of Life magazine in the mid 1940s. The process of tone mapping together with bracketed exposures of normal digital images, giving the end result a high, often exaggerated dynamic range, was first reported in 1993, and resulted in a mathematical theory of differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter that was published in 1995. In 1997 this technique of combining several differently exposed images to produce a single HDR image was presented to the computer graphics community by Paul Debevec.
This method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. With the rising popularity of digital cameras and easy-to-use desktop software, the term HDR is now popularly used to refer to this process. This composite technique is different from (and may be of lesser or greater quality than) the production of an image from a single exposure of a sensor that has a native high dynamic range. Tone mapping is also used to display HDR images on devices with a low native dynamic range, such as a computer screen.

[Sekkle]

Great shots, philopdx. That Fox Tower one could be used as an official marketing photo or something. Wow!

[Dougall5505]

[Joeplayer19]

the skyline is just laid back like the people man

[Joeplayer19]

!

[Sekkle]

I tried playing around with HDR a little bit. I know most people don't care for the over-stylized, fake-looking HDR, and I tried not to get too crazy with it, but I'm new to it, so cut me some slack.

All were created using a free program called qtpfsgui (catchy name, right? ). Larger versions are available on my flickr page if you click the photo (and then click "all sizes" on the flickr page). There are also a couple other HDR photos on there.

[zilfondel]

Nice pictures! Actually, great pictures

anyone know what the building u/c in the background of the fremont pic is? Mississippi Lofts?

[JordanL]

I took this back in September and just stitched it together.

Turned out better than I expected actually...

[alphawolf]

Just some quick ones from the Jupiter Hotel last week.

[Dougall5505]

not portland but by me: http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...10#post4179710

i promise ill get back out there soon

[downtownpdx]

Just posted a photo thread of our lovely city with some wine country and Oregon coast thrown in here and there :

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=202469

[philopdx]

Taken looking north down 5th Avenue. I love being able to see the snow-covered hills in the distance, since the conditions required to see them only happen a few times a year.

[trofirhen]

I'm from Vancouver, that snazzy-looking (well, at some angles) city vertically pushing high-rises like mushrooms, linked by a high-speed rail system.

OK

Please excuse that preamble, and continue to say what I came here to say.
Metropolitan Portland and Metropolitan Vancouver have tightly close metro populations..
You may not have quite the same look as Vancouver, but you have a higher city GNP.
Somehow, that good ol' American 'know how' is there and "just do it" without massive overseas infusions.
And you do it unostationsiously, and with a charming cityscape with wonderful views.
Plus a charming mix of modern, but a lot of heritage buildings, a good tramway, and lastly, that magnificent fountain square.

So Vancouver can razzle-dazzle all it wants, but Portland makes more money.

Seattle, of course, is the "big boy on the block" and is the home of Microsoft,
and many affiliated "silicon valley" type industries, Boeing, (yes I know the hq is in Chicago, but still...)
(.........and it's gaining several major foreign airlines.)

But Portland and Vancouver somehow complement each other.
Thank you for your time and consideration, good neighbour!

[downtownpdx]

Some shots from the Portland Winter Light Festival a couple weeks ago. This is a great event that spans several blocks from Pioneer Square to the World Trade Center to the waterfront, with DJ's, performers, food carts, etc.
https://skyscraperpage.com/forum/sho...d.php?t=250202

[CorbinWarrick]

Wow whatever happened to Philo? He was a major contributor at one time. Just saw his post on this thread