Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category

Open Source Camera

I found this very interesting:

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The idea of being able to fully control and ‘edit’ your pictures  as you take them is very attractive.  Perhaps a whole community of ‘plug-ins’ could develop on top of this open source  device?  Imagine all kinds of ‘plug-ins’ to help you take panoramas. Or a photosynth [...]

Seadragon

Sea dragon has now gone live.  The cool thing is that you can now use DeepZoomPix.com to easily create and host your own deep zoom images.
A while ago I made a rather geeky photo-mosaic of berlin doors a created a deep zoom of this.  So It was pretty easy to do, but yuo did have [...]

Tirol Panorama

Doing lunch Tirol style

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Toronto Airport Panorama

Toronto airport waiting to board a delayed Air Canada flight:

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Made using Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE).
In homage to Ed Parson’s more glamorous travel panos!

Photosynth Blog

I have just discovered the Photosynth Blog, which is a great resource for tips, tricks and information on new features.  Nice work Photosynth Team! 
One of my synths even features in this post:

I’m famous at last

Yet more snow in Tirol

The view from my window this morning. We’re getting a lot of snow this winter.

Creating Deep Zoom Panoramas with ICE

Recently I have been playing around Image Composite Editor (ICE) and have found it a really good, simple (and free!) tool for stitching photo panoramas.  Therefore I have been re-visiting some photo panoramas I have taken over the years and stitching them in ICE. 
The problem I have always had is that panoramas are [...]

Photo for the day

I took it here.  It is one of these.

Two Seasons, Two Photosynths

I’m quite proud of these two photosynths I did of the same monument in Nunhead Cemetery.  One was in the summer, the other this week in the snow…  Both are 100% synthy!
 
 

A rare site in London

Taken here:

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