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Hans Rudolf "HR" Giger was born as the son of a pharmacist in Chur in the Swiss Alps, the city where I went to highschool. HR Giger achieved world fame as a representative of fantastic realism. He was awarded an Oscar in 1980 for the design of the "Alien" movie.

HR Giger's sculpture "Torso with long skull shape" stands in the garden of the Graubünden Art Museum. Half human, half machine, the figure is characteristic of HR Giger's dark, surreal and psychedelic figure world, which oscillates between dream and reality, life and death, man and machine.

I processed a paintery and a balanced HDR photo from two RAW exposures, blended them, carefully adjusted the color balance and curves, desaturated the image, and selectively added a bit of saturation back in the figure. I welcome and appreciate constructive comments.

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-- ƒ/8.0, 35 mm, 1/30, 1/125 sec, ISO 200, Sony A6000, SEL-P1650, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, _DSC1513_4_hdr2pai5bal1e.jpg
-- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, © Peter Thoeny, Quality HDR Photography

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Taken in: Switzerland / Grisons / Chur / Chur (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2020

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Camera: Sony ILCE-6000, f/8.0, 1/30 sec, 35mm (=52mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Sony ILCE-6000
Lens:	Sony E PZ 16-50mm F3.5-5.6 OSS
Aperture:	f/8.0
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	35mm (35mm equivalent: 52mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Pixelmator 3.8.6
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