Two Photographs Accepted into the 2008 Orange County Fair
“Chopper Monster”
This was shot at Cooks Corner in Trabuco Canyon.
The original photograph was of the engine and the
fuel tank. I then rotated it, mirrored it, then
duplicated the whole thing and mirror that one more
time to create this kaleidescope-like affect.
“Half Dome Meadow”
This is one of those right place at the right time
shots. This is definitely one of my favorite
pictures I’ve taken. I’ve setup a page where
these can be purchased. Come and get it
New Image Compositing, Panoramic Photography Features Coming From Adobe
Below, is a screen shot from a cool demonstration. Here, John took a series of macro photographed images with selective focus (meaning, there was an extremely shallow depth of field for each image). When all of the images were merged, a composited "in focus" image was produced. But seeing is believing (and easier to understand). So, go to about 19 minutes into the webinar to see this in action.
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Digital Cameras: What to Buy - Point-and-Shoot or a DSLR
While both types of cameras are great, if you're looking for something with a bit more flexibility, I recommend a DSLR. Read on to see why... Read More...
Morper Photographs Now Available for Purchase
Size and order
information available by clicking on "Read More."
Seam Carvning Coming to Photoshop Plugin: Courtesy of OnOne Software
To get an idea of what seam carving is all about, read the blog post link above and/or check out this YouTube video below:
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World Wide Panorama Events: Best of 2007, Wrinkle in Time Contributions
I really encourage you to check out the work of all the photographers that have contributed to these projects. Not only did nearly 300 panoramic photographs contribute to these two projects, but most of the images can be seen full screen and all are geo-located on a map of the world so you can see where each image was photographed. A special thanks goes out to the organizers of the world wide panorama effort, as without them these last 17 events would not have taken place.
Wrinkle in Time
19 December 2007 marked the 10th anniversary of this initial event. The original Wrinkle in Time project is considered the first major, collaborative immersive, panoramic photography event. To enter the original event, your panoramic photograph was to be taken at the exact same time as the solstice in one's local area. 10 years later, the original event was commemorated by 165 photographers from every corner of the world taking an immersive, 360 degree panoramic photograph within a 12 hour window before and after the Solstice in the photographer's locale.
Since the Solstice passed at 10:08pm local time on 19 December, I elected to take a picture of Christmas lights in the neighborhood. My contribution for the Wrinkle in Time 2007 event can be viewed on the World Wide Panorama website.
[ View: Mike Morper's Wrinkle in Time 2007 panoramic photograph contribution ]
And for your Google Earth users, all of the photographed for this event can be viewed in Google Earth. Read More...
Fred Miranda's Photoshop Automation Scripts Updated for CS3, Intel Macs, Vista
Photograph Enlarged on Canvas: Success!
Have you ever wanted to enlarge a picture really, really big and output it onto canvas. OK, maybe not. But I have always wanted to give it a go. Of course, you need to have the right place for a big print on canvas. So subject matter is everything. Read More...
SlideShowPro: Create Flash-based Slide Shows with Lightroom
Adobe's Lightroom is my "comfort place" when it
comes to managing, editing and publishing my
photography. I've used many, many apps in my photo
management life (some
not so great) and hand's-down, Lightroom is
the one for me. Of course, the first time I saw
SlideShowPro
from Dominey Design, well.... I really wished
Lightroom would have support for it. It does
now...
New Landscape Photograph: Half Dome Meadow
As I mentioned in my last post, I managed to get a few good shots while in Yosemite during the Thanksgiving week. Here is the second shot I have finished up. Please click the "Read More..." link below for a bit more information.
Read More...New Landscape Photograph: Moonrise Over Yosemite
Last week, we packed our car up and headed off to Yosemite for a long overdue vacation. I managed to get a couple of photographs taken while I was there that I am pretty happy with.
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Pictures Posted from Last Night's Morperhaus Theater Halloween Party
Check out the rest of the pictures from
the Second Annual Morperhaus Halloween Party
here.
Morperhaus Theater: Live Tonight!
Car Extrication Demonstration at OCFA Open House
To see a version of this panorama you can pan around within, head over to my full screen panorama page.
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Sustenance: World Wide Panorama is Live
This time, over 200 photographers from all over the world contributed images (all shot between 19-23 September 2007) related to the theme of Sustenance.
One of the contributor's to the "Sustenance" VR photography event
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Orange County, California Picture Map
Click the picture above to view the Orange County, California picture map.
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Panoramic Photos of Kennedy Space Center, Seal Beach Pier, Fire Station Playhouse and Some Sanctuary
Here is the Rocket Garden at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This image was created using six photographs shot with a fisheye lens. Four horizontal shots (each at 90 degree increments) one pointing straight up and one straight down. Each of the images was handheld (as opposed to using a tripod and a pano head).
View "Kennedy Space Center Rocket Garden" in fullscreen
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Picture Maps
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Seam Carving Technology Eliminates Distortion in Stretched Images
Patrick Swieskowski has created a great Flash-based demo so you can see how this all works. Go check out Patrick's Seam Carving Flash demonstration.
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Water Bridge, Jamaican Flower, Crush Added to Photograhy
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That’s Marketing: Super Bowl Style
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Pictures Posted From Last Night's Movie at Morperhaus Theater
Link to pictures: 4 September 2006 Morperhaus Theater
Aperture 1.0 Users get a Apple Store Credit
OK, good form that Apple realized their user community was less than happy about the 1.0 release (check out the forums if you don't believe me) and took corrective measures. According to the Apple site:
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New Panoramic Image Stitcher on the Block
Kekus Digital
has introduced a prerelease of a new stitcher
called Calico Panorama. In addition
to single row panoramic images, Calico also
supports multi-row images. Cool. And the best
part? You don't need to be an uber propeller
head to figure it out. Just load your images and
let it do its thang.
As I am writing this, I am in the process of
stitching a 14 image single row panorama on my G3
Powerbook. So far so good. Calico does not support
fisheye images (go use PTMac for that) however, you
can still output 360x180 images if you want from
within Calico, your source images must be
rectilinear.
Way to go Kekus Digital!
Picture of the Month: Coke in China Town
Last week, I was in San Francisco. While there, I
managed to snap a few photographs. This one, as
soon as I saw it, I knew I wanted it to be black
and white.
How to Shoot Fireworks with Your Digital Camera
For those of you in the US getting ready to watch
fireworks tonight, here is a great little article on
how to photograph the bombs bursting in air.
The article is easy to follow and not over-the-top
geeky. Instructions work for both point-and-shoot
digital cameras as well as digital SLRs.
Nikon Encrypts White Balance Values
Clowns. That was my first thought when I heard about this early this week [DP Review article, Adobe Forums post by Photoshop creator Thomas Knoll]. Why do I think Nikon are a bunch of clowns? Basically, by encrypting the white balance data, they are limiting the ability for third parties to read the data and manipulate it. So what? Well, if you're a photographer and use Adobe's Raw Camera plugin for Photoshop, you're kinda outta luck.
Instead, it seems Nikon wants you to buy there Nikon Capture app. It silly stuff like this that makes me really happy I decided to be a "Canon guy" a long time ago.
Here is an excerpt from Mr Knoll's post in the Adobe forum:
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Photoshop Action: Canon D30/D60/20D/1D, Fuji S2, Nikon D70/D100 - Sigma 8mm Fisheye Light Fall-Off Correction
I just (finally) got around to updating this
Photoshop action. In addition to the Canon D30 and
D60, this action now supports the following
cameras:
Canon: D30, D60, 20D, 1D
Fuji: S2
Nikon: D70, D100
The old action used to also have some magic in it
for correcting chromatic abberation (color shift).
I had tried to correct for chromatic abberation in
the action for each camera, but didn't have that
much luck. At least to a point that I was able to
prodiuce consistent results. Therefore, I removed
that capability from the script.
What's Raw Anyway? Here is Some Earthbound Insight
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A Photograph That Makes You Feel Like You're Flying
Eric Rougier, who I believe is one of the best panoramic photographers around, has created an absolutely incredible image. This image truly makes you feel that you are flying. I don't want to spoil it for you, I simply encourage you to view his VR photograph of flying over Paris (QuickTime required).
And actually, this is the second time he has successfully captured this amazing feeling of flight. His first effort gives you the sensation that you are floating in the middle of the first level of the Eiffel Tower.
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A Little Histogram History for Ya
Anyone that is moderately interested in digital
photography is familiar with the term histogram.
Heck, all the camera manufacturers reference
histogram in their user's manual like we all know
what it is. But really, what is a histogram and why
do I care?
New Book Available - Interactive Panoramas: Techniques for Digital Panoramic Photography
This book details all of the necessary steps
involved in panoramic photography: from the
production of digital and analog picture sequences,
"stitching" using software tools (like REALVIZ
Stitcher, VR Worx and PanoTools), all the way to
publishing interactive panoramas on the Web (e.g.,
using QuickTime VR, PTViewer and VRML). The book
introduces the production of cylindrical and
spherical panoramas, as well as object movies and
explains how to link individual panoramas to
virtual tours.
Picture of the Month: iPod Ad Inspired Warhol
I was recently reading an article at Photoshop Support discussing
a simply technique for mimicking the artwork in
the iPod advertisements. So what the heck, I
gave it a try.
And you know what? It was pretty darn easy. I
decided to take it one step farther and make my
version of an Andy Warhol illustration.
Update 20 December 2004: