The narrative for my Google Earth project will be the process of doing my previous Urban Intervention Project.

The following is a list of places I went to for my Urban Intervention project.

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For my Urban Intervention project, I decided to focus on the issue of drug use and the effects of drug use. Many addicts will often find themselves doing almost anything to achieve the euphoric “high” feeling. To show the effects of drug use I chose to use the marijuana leaf as my urban intervention icon. I understand that marijuana is technically not considered a type of narcotic in Canada, but I chose it because of its wide known alias, “the gateway drug” as well as the international recognition of marijuana as “bad.” With my cut out vinyl of the marijuana leaf, and some thin strips of red vinyl (you can get this stuff at Canadian Tire, costs around five dollars) I set out to construct my urban intervention project.

Pinstripes Red Vinyl

After much thought, I decided to seal the vinyls to a car, in a fashion that looks as if someone had smashed the passenger window of the car to break in. At the centre of the impact will be where I will put the marijuana leaf, to show how most of the time, cars get broken into to feed the underground drug trade system.I then took the car all over the lower mainland (including Granville Island), and photographed them.

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The other locations will be posted in my Google Earth Project.

An HDR image of stairs and some bushes:

Initial Images

Result

High Dynamic Range Attempt:

I started by taking 10 different shots using three different exposures, resulting in 30 images.

Different Exposures

Merging to HDR:

I thought about merging the files to HDR in Photoshop before I stitched the files together.

HDR Merged Image

After I merged the files, I realized that the day I took the photographs had slight winds. This caused the leaves in the tree to shift for the three images. This ultimately led to a rainbow like spectrum on the image.

Shifting in the leaves

Stitching the image:

After giving up on the HDR approach, I decided to just use the moderate exposed image to create the panorama.

Merged Image

Final Product:

After playing with the Highlights and Shadows as well as adjusting the curves in the image.

Cropped and Adjusted Image