Modified 18-Oct-10
Created 4-Oct-10
47 photos
while the photos in this set were shot during the 2010 Rose Festival, it was used only as a backdrop or location that allowed me to create the ultra-wide photo effects images in this set. These photos are just a part of an ongoing effort to see what kind of images I can make using various camera/lens setups and then manipulating those pictures in software to make interesting images.
These photos were shot with a Nikon D700 (a Full Frame 24X36 DSLR) fitted with a Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX-DG Circular Fisheye lens. This lens creates a round image in the center of the cameras image field. It has a 180° field of view and because it does not employ any optical correction everything at the perimeter of the round image is very distorted. The ultra-wide panoramic images in this set were shot with the Sigma fisheye lens and processed with a panoramic stitching program called PTGui Pro. PTGui analyzes two or more images (round or rectangular), finds matching control points in the images and then auto aligns the images using these points to create the final panoramic image. PTGui Pro also auto color corrects and blends your fisheye images creating seamless ultra-wide panoramics. Some of the photos contain multiple image components that show the same people a few times in those pictures. These photos were made using the Nikon D700's preset continuous shooting modes. The camera was set to shoot three, four or five pictures in rapid succession at a preset firing rate of one or two frames per second. The Nikon MC-30 Remote Trigger cable release was used to shoot these types of pictures from the top of a Manfrotto 695 carbon Fiber monopod topped with a Giottos MH-1001-652 Ballhead which has a Quick Release plate.
The artistic visual effects images in this set were created with the PhotoShop plug-in Flexify from Flamingpear.com. This plug-in has a large number of menu selectable input and output image manipulation options that can be combined to yield different image shapes. The images that you see here are only a few percent of the total number that you can choose from when combining the various menu settings. While this plug-in has a system of saving presets, the preview image is small which to me makes it unworkable. To create a set of reference images I applied various settings to one circular fisheye image. Next I entered text notes outlining the settings in a blank field beside the image and then saved them both as one JPEG file. The graphics image boarders you see in some of the images were made with either Photoshop Adjustment Layers or the PS plug-in Eye candy. The background images in these composites were composed specifically to have other images layered on top of them.
These photos were shot with a Nikon D700 (a Full Frame 24X36 DSLR) fitted with a Sigma 8mm f3.5 EX-DG Circular Fisheye lens. This lens creates a round image in the center of the cameras image field. It has a 180° field of view and because it does not employ any optical correction everything at the perimeter of the round image is very distorted. The ultra-wide panoramic images in this set were shot with the Sigma fisheye lens and processed with a panoramic stitching program called PTGui Pro. PTGui analyzes two or more images (round or rectangular), finds matching control points in the images and then auto aligns the images using these points to create the final panoramic image. PTGui Pro also auto color corrects and blends your fisheye images creating seamless ultra-wide panoramics. Some of the photos contain multiple image components that show the same people a few times in those pictures. These photos were made using the Nikon D700's preset continuous shooting modes. The camera was set to shoot three, four or five pictures in rapid succession at a preset firing rate of one or two frames per second. The Nikon MC-30 Remote Trigger cable release was used to shoot these types of pictures from the top of a Manfrotto 695 carbon Fiber monopod topped with a Giottos MH-1001-652 Ballhead which has a Quick Release plate.
The artistic visual effects images in this set were created with the PhotoShop plug-in Flexify from Flamingpear.com. This plug-in has a large number of menu selectable input and output image manipulation options that can be combined to yield different image shapes. The images that you see here are only a few percent of the total number that you can choose from when combining the various menu settings. While this plug-in has a system of saving presets, the preview image is small which to me makes it unworkable. To create a set of reference images I applied various settings to one circular fisheye image. Next I entered text notes outlining the settings in a blank field beside the image and then saved them both as one JPEG file. The graphics image boarders you see in some of the images were made with either Photoshop Adjustment Layers or the PS plug-in Eye candy. The background images in these composites were composed specifically to have other images layered on top of them.
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