Anyway, I've got something new to share, This shot was meant for an A2 print. The image was finalised & finished today and hopefully I could pick-up the print 2 days from now. The photo is a tribute to my dead Nikon F4 r.i.p. 2004, ...paperweight anyone?
Technical Details:
This image consists of 16 images and were taken using my "Macro Panoramic / VR" home made gear (no patents yet, lol). I stitched the images using PTgui cuz this software allows Recti-linear rendering, which means, no curves.
The image is actually a 180 degree sweep, although it looks like it was taken with a "macro" wideangle lens (which does not exist). I used 3 flourescent lamps to light up the setting. The 1st one is visible on the photo cuz I wanted an angelic feel, whatever.
The setting up and the stitching optimization phase is probably the trickiest part...the visualization part was probably very energy draining, lol. The final image was edited in PS for removal of dust bunnies and cropping. The original image was 6094 x 3999 pxls.
Thanks for looking and have fun! This page that Nikt has started is getting better!!! Bring it on!!!
Oh yeh, this was taken with a D1 and a Nikkor 35mm f2 nonAi.
I just came back from a trip of three days with a friend of mine. I shot almost all my frames with the F4 ... that RegRay has to nicely put up a few posts above. If my two rolls of Kodachrome's come back properly exposed (I did a bit of finger crossing) I think I should have some nice shots to show you when they come back ... but this one is one of my fave's from the few D200 clicks I took.
I don't get into shooting landscapes much ... just a newbie really ... but this trip made me realize how much fun it could be ... and how different the equipment requirements are. Hee hee hee. More excuse for gear! Gotta love it!
Here are some favorites from a perfect weekend in the North Carolina mountains. Well, almost perfect. I did have to return to the drudgery of being a low-level state government bureaucrat. But spending three days immersed in all that beauty was incredibly invigorating.
How, John do you ever leave places like that once you've been there - to go back to civilization?
It almost makes me want to leave the warm comfort of North Carolina and see Wisconsin.
I think that spot could be nice to take pictures, one in each season.
Do many landscape shooters disappear in the woods forever?
Nick, I like that top one. I kept looking at it trying to decipher why it appealed to me so much and I think it is because those colors, subdued ... look unusual ... but real at the same time.
That black and white that Vicki shot was not blurred in photoshop. No, Vicki took that out the top of a convertible ... at 50 mph. Only two cameras were lost!
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...paperweight anyone?
