Thursday, March 18th, 2010

About

About HDR­Source:

I started pho­tograph­ing HDR images about 10 years ago when HDR was largely unknown to both the 3d com­mu­nity and pho­tog­ra­phers. There was only a hand­ful of links regard­ing HDR on the web, but I hap­pened to come across some of the early exper­i­ments of other 3d artists and the pio­neer­ing research of Paul Debevec and Greg Ward. Intrigued by the results of these light­ing meth­ods, I started shoot­ing HDR light probes using an old chrome sphere and a high-​​end 3.2 megapixel Olym­pus (well, it was high-​​end at the time.) I sud­denly real­ized that there was a poten­tial mar­ket for these HDR envi­ron­ments, and cre­ated one of the first HDR stores named HDRSource.

Over time, I’ve kept up with the chang­ing soft­ware, meth­ods, and tech­nolo­gies — and have improved upon those very first images. My lat­est HDR panora­mas can be seen on this website.

I’m proud to say that HDR­Source is one of the old­est HDR stores on the Inter­net, and that I am also one of the first HDR pho­tog­ra­phers in the north east­ern United States. I am also the only per­son that I know of that takes 360 degree HDR envi­ron­ments for com­puter graph­ics in the entire New Eng­land area.

If you’re look­ing to have cus­tom 3d High Dynamic Range Image envi­ron­ments cre­ated for your project(s), please feel free to con­tact me for addi­tional information.

About Me:

My name is Charles Leo and I am a 35 year-​​old artist liv­ing 5-​​minutes away (if I go fast enough) from the city of Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts. The foun­da­tion of my work lies in 3d illus­tra­tions with a focus on archi­tec­tural ren­der­ings. I also have a back­ground in pub­lish­ing and web devel­op­ment. Some of my work can be seen at www.lunarstudio.com. Over the years, I worked closely with other artists, archi­tects, real­tors, devel­op­ers, and inte­rior design­ers on a wide vari­ety of projects. As my 3d graphic skills pro­gressed, I became fur­ther involved in pho­tog­ra­phy as the two fields share a lot of sim­i­lar prin­ci­ples and techniques.

Addi­tional infor­ma­tion regard­ing my work at Lunarstu­dio can also be found on my blog at www.lunarlog.com.