Moran Photo of the Month
April 2009 Grand Prize Winner
John A. Moran Eye Center patient waiting area.
Photo by: James Gillman.
About the Photographer:
Jim Gilman, C.R.A. is an experienced photographer who works full time as the manager of the John A. Moran Eye Center Photography and Videography Department. In addition to his private work as a professional photographer, Jim has helped bring relief to thousands of patients with his special skill of capturing the visual system, eye disorders and disease with his camera. These photographs are used by ophthalmologists and ophthalmology specialists to augment and improve patient care. He has won numerous national awards for his groundbreaking photographs.
Jim is also a fine art photographer and sells his work privately and through exhibits in galleries.
Jim also provides images for research through numerous multi-centered clinical trials, and documentation of projects generated by various Moran research laboratories. In addition, Jim and members of the team provide academic support to the Moran faculty, providing computer and graphic services for lecture and publication production, and award winning video editing.
The Moran Ophthalmic Photography and Videography Department consists or Paula Morris, C.R.A., F.O.P.S., Jim Gillman, C.R.A., Glen Jenkins, C.R.A., Cyrie Fry, C.R.A., and videographer Randal Miller, B.A. The photographers have all earned the title of Certified Retinal Angiographer (C.R.A.) from the Ophthalmic Photographers’ Society. Collectively, they have over 73 years of ophthalmic imaging experience.
About the Photograph:
The photograph is a result of two processes. One is a merger of 3 photographs of the same subject at varying exposures (one over, one under and one middle) When these images are combined, the result is High Dynamic Range (HDR) This image is then tone mapped to deliver a color range to the wide range of values. Our visual system works in similar fashion to include a very wide variety of brightness values in our eyes. Most digital cameras have and extremely narrow range of brightness values, when compared to our eyes, that are captured and transferred to a monitor which also displays a narrow range of brightness values.