Thought I’d have a play with Autodesk Stitcher, so I grabbed some photos from a recent trip to Leeds of the Corn Exchange and gave it a go. Considering I shot the panorama by hand without a tripod the images have stitched up remarkably well – though I didn’t keep very level so there’s a weird gap in the middle. I tried to disguise or rather play on the odd shape by stencilling the edges in Photoshop. The image is on Flickr – but I uploaded it here full res (8568×5976) for you to have a closer look!
I’m Listening To:
Note the file number!
So it’s the 10,000th photo taken with my Canon 400D, I thought it deserved some sort of commemoration. I know that’s not such a crazy huge number considering I’ve had the camera three years, but hey I was half expecting something really exciting to happen since 9,999 is all the counter goes up to, but all it did was create a new folder and prefix (101) and start again from zero.
The photo? Taken in Sainsbury’s car park, Chester. The automatic white balance doesn’t work with streetlamps it seems from the histogram. I liked how the trolleys started off in regimented rowns then gave way to disruption. I’ll upload it or one of the others soon if they’re any good.
Incidentally this is the first post written, photo added and published using the WordPress Android app on my T-Mobile G1. It seems okay, bit of a clunky interface and not sure if it’ll scale the image but usable none the less.
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Ladybird 1 (IMG_9728)
I thought it might be a fun idea every once in a while to take a photo from my flickr photostream, and describe in a bit more detail how I got the photo. Today we’ll look at ‘Ladybird 1′.
This ladybird popped out of a lettuce, and I just had to shoot it. The lens was actually a Canon EF 18-55 mounted backwards to make a macro lens; a clever trick I found on the internet. It works very well, although of course with no autofocus you’re left swinging your head back and forth like a pigeon. The backdrop you see is actually our kitchen worktop, with natural lighting from the left supplimented with a plain paper reflector on the right and another sheet bouncing the camera’s flash from above. I love how the head on angle makes something normally thought of as cute and adorable frankly terrifying. Somehow this photo got quite a bit darker in the transition from Lightroom to Flickr, which is why it looks a little underexposed here.
Actually, it’s been Creative Commons licensed for quite a while now but I thought I deserved some hyperbole.
Pigeon on roof (IMG_9025)
Under this license you may copy, distribute and display my photographs, and also edit or change them to make derivative versions, providing you give me credit for my part. I love the concept that I can trip over my photos in all sorts of places. That’s why I ask whenever someone used my photos that they email me.
You can find my photos for download at my Flickr photostream, or I offer higher resolutions upon request
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