About Trey Ratcliff
About Me:
I’m a Photographer, Artist, Writer & Adventurer
WHAT I LOOK LIKE
Don’t most people click on an “About Me” page to see what the bloke looks like? I don’t like photos of me, and I can’t ever decide which one is representative of me. Anyway, I’ll post a few different ones here, but don’t think I’m one of those Instagram non-stop selfie people haha… (and if you simply MUST see more, here are a bunch of photos that other people have taken.)
CATEGORICAL BREAKDOWN OF ME:
The Basics
Name: Trey Ratcliff
Gender: Dude
Primary Language: English
Place of Residence: New Zealand
Sign, although I’m not into this form of mysticism: Cancer
High School: Jesuit College Prep Dallas
University: Southern Methodist University (Computer Science and Math)
DRAWING
Oh, also, I also like the to draw and I find it helps me quite a bit with the photography. I started teaching myself in an experiment to see if I could learn in April of 2008. Here is a compilation of some work I did between April and October of that year. I still don’t think I’m very good, but I look forward to improving.
PP: When and how did you discover HDR photography?
TR: I discovered it almost immediately after getting a camera. I took a photo with a nice camera and then looked at the result. It wasn’t what I saw! The photo was so dull! Then it got me thinking… my degree is in computer science and math, and I started thinking about the eye and the brain in terms of algorithms. It occurred to me that they camera and the screen are a similar analog, so perhaps there were some algorithms that could help map the reality to the viewing mechanism.
PP: What attracts you to HDR?
TR: I love HDR because it captures the world how I see and feel it. I know not everyone sees the world like me, but that is okay. I see it in a rich, cinematic, romantic manner. Without HDR, so many photos just come out drab and disappointing.