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photographic dna : 2000-2010
Ten years of photography: a visual analysis of all 30.000 ‘keeper’ images in my archive.
Each bar depicts the average hue of all pictures taken that day and their brightness distribution. The image was created by first exporting all images as 500×500 pixel thumbnails; then counting all colors within each image and saving these distributions to individual files. Of course the total gamut of 24-bit color is immense, but 500×500 pixels can only contain at most 250.000 different colors; my images typically had between 500 and 100.000 individual colors. In a second step, all image data files for each day were accumulated and their brightness distribution and median hue calculated and used to create the individual bars you see above.
