Category Archives: Travel / Photography

Localized tonemapping – is global exposure and global tonemapping operator enough for video games?

Posted on August 29, 2016 by bartwronski

In this blog post, I wanted to address something that I was thinking about for many years – since starting working on rendering in video games and with HDR workflows and having experience with various photographic techniques. For the title … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics, Travel / Photography | Tagged exposure, film, God of War, graphics, graphics programming, photography, photos, postprocessing, tonemapping | 15 Comments

White balance and physically based rendering pipelines. Part 2 – practical problems.

Posted on October 14, 2015 by bartwronski

White balance and lighting conditions After this long introduction (be sure to check part one if you haven’t!), we can finally go to the problem that started whole idea for this post (as in my opinion it is unsolved problem – … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics, Travel / Photography | Tagged assassin's creed, color management, graphics, graphics programming, IBL, ideas, image based lighting, panoramas, PBR, photogrammetry, photography, physically-based shading, srgb, the witcher 2: assassins of kings, white balance, witcher 2 | 5 Comments

White balance and physically based rendering pipelines. Part 1 – introduction.

Posted on October 14, 2015 by bartwronski

This is part one of the whole article. Part two is here. In this two posts (started as one, but I had to split it to make it more… digestible) I’m going to talk a bit about the white balance. First … Continue reading →

Posted in Code / Graphics, Travel / Photography | Tagged color management, digital cameras, film, graphics, graphics programming, PBR, photography, physically-based shading, rendering, srgb, white balance | 2 Comments

Processing scanned/DSLR photos of film negatives in Lightroom

Posted on February 19, 2015 by bartwronski

The topic I wanted to cover in this post is non-destructive workflow for “developing” photographed or scanned negatives – in this case B&W film. Why even bother about film? Because I still love analog photos as a hobby. 🙂 I wrote … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel / Photography | Tagged 35mm, adobe, analog, film, graphics, Lightroom, medium format, photography, photoshop, scanning, Voigtlander | 5 Comments

Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm f1.4 M on Sony A7 Review

Posted on August 8, 2014 by bartwronski

As I promised, my delayed review of Voigtlander Nokton Classic 40mm f1.4 M used on Sony Alpha A7. First I’m going to explain some “mysterious” (lots of questions in the internet!) aspects of this lens. Why 40mm? So, first of all … Continue reading →

Image | Posted on August 8, 2014 by bartwronski | Tagged 40mm, A7, Alpha 7, f/1.4, Lightroom, Nokton, optics, photography, photos, Sony, travel, Voigtlander | 15 Comments

Sony A7 review

Posted on July 31, 2014 by bartwronski

Introduction This is a new post for one of my favourite “off-topic” subjects – photography. I just recently (under 2 weeks ago) bought Sony A7 and wanted to share some my first impressions and write a mini review. Why did I … Continue reading →

Image | Posted on July 31, 2014 by bartwronski | Tagged A7, Alpha 7, DSLR, Fuji, mirrorless, Nikon, photography, photos, review, Sony, travel, Voigtlander | 2 Comments

Coming back to film photography

Posted on June 8, 2014 by bartwronski

Yeah, finally I managed to go back to my past-time favourite hobby – film/analog photography that I started when I was 10 years old with following camera: Now I’m a bit older and my photo gear has changed as well … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel / Photography | Tagged 645, B&W, black & white, film, fuji x100, mamiya, photography | 1 Comment