A Room with a View
bit-player.org
bit-player.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20190129170122/http://bit-player...
For me, anyway, the images do render, which really add to the article, for me.
For me, they load on both archive sites.
However, the photograph at the top looks like it has been severely mangled by post-processing. Maybe it's been damaged by a bad HDR pipeline. There's a complete lack of large-scale contrast, and all of the objects have weird "halos" around them. Honestly, it makes me feel a little bit uneasy, even ill, looking at it. No exaggeration.
This can sometimes happen if you drag your sliders too far in an HDR tone-mapping application, or if you are heavy-handed with unsharp mask. I don't want to try and say that this is aesthetically "wrong", but I think that the reason why amateur photographers make this mistake is because they look at the post-processed photo too long, and your eyes start to adapt to it. It helps to look at real-world scenery occasionally, or known good photos, to remind yourself what the real world (or good photos) looks like, while you are editing photos. Not because realism is better, but to avoid unintentionally extreme editing choices like this.
Mixing engineers have the same problem. If you listen to the same song too much, you start to perceive it as normal, and you have to spend breaks listening to other things.
After doing that a few times, you'll start making better checks on yourself during actual processing.
It looks unnatural, but in an synthetic, post-processed way, rather than a reflection of the artificiality of the subject.
That said, I don't usually open blog posts and expect to be moved by a photo, and this one certainly did and it seemed like someone put the effort to make it a little more than ordinary. Whereas this photo moved me positively, it seems to have done the opposite for you.
Zoom out and squint. The photograph is nearly uniform gray, without light or dark parts.
Look at the shapes. The cylindrical current-limiting reactors on the right side look flat, but if you scroll down to see other pictures of them, they don't look flat in the other pictures.
It's kind of like bad kerning, or JPEG artifacts. You might not mind them much unless you know that they're there, and once you learn to recognize them it's too late and you'll never not see them.
I'm currently sitting in my apartment that looks out into a wall and wondering how I can figure out a better arrangement. I feel like especially when working from home, the view really has an actual effect on my productivity.
I share the interest with the author. If I have free time, I'd map out the infrastructures for fun. Good thing my town is small :-)
That reminds me of one of my all time favourite YouTube videos of a high voltage switch being opened.
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