Legally Bland

Main and Third

This one was taken on the corner of Main and Third in Phoenixville. I suggest you interact with it. I’m going to interact with a comic and then I plan on interacting with my pillow.

Published by Branden September 12th, 2007 in Photography.
Tags: Flickr, Pano, Phoenixville. 1 Comment

Jenkins Arboretum

These were taken at Jenkins Arboretum in Devon, PA. See the interactive versions here and here.

Published by Branden September 11th, 2007 in Photography.
Tags: Flickr, Heather, Jenkins Arboretum, Linus, Luke Romer, Monica, Pano. 4 Comments

This one was an absolute bear to stitch. In the future I’ll avoid shooting directly beneath massive amounts of intersecting utility lines. The bulk of the stitching went pretty quickly, but cleaning up the wires in Photoshop took forever. This is also my first attempt at using Photomatix to get a tone mapped image from three different exposures. I’m unimpressed with most of the tone mapped images that seem to be tickling everyone’s fancy currently. I was attempting to accurately recreate the scene rather than make the digital equivalent of a black velvet painting. Overall I’m pretty happy with it, but I still want to continue to tweak my settings a little bit. Right now I’m going to go tweak my pillow.

Be sure to see the interactive version too.

Published by Branden August 30th, 2007 in Photography.
Tags: Pano, Phoenixville, Photomatix, Photos, Tone Mapped. 4 Comments

More panos, less sleep

First up, the Manistee Riverwalk. That’s the last of my panos from Manistee. Unfortunately our last trip was so short, I had little time for snapping pictures while we were there. You can see the interactive version over here.

Then there’s the Challenge of Champions. Wow. What to say about this one. I had sore legs for a week, and not for the reasons which may be alluded to by the photo. This was a paid gig; It was a day’s worth of taking pictures of men, women and children beating on each other. At the end of the day I managed to take a few pictures of my own for the pano. Interact up in here.

Other items of note:

Crazy busy weekend - If I didn’t answer your email, it’s because I’m a jerk - but I’ll get to you soon.
Romer’s will be here this week!
After very Autumnal weather last week, we’ve enterered right back into Summer misery with temps in the 90’s.
Sleep is for the week!
Who needs TV when you have comic books?
Who needs friends when you have the internet?
Who needs sleep when you have pictures to stitch?

Published by Branden August 26th, 2007 in Ramblings and Photography.
Tags: Equirectangular, Flickr, Karate, Manistee, Pano, Photos, updates. 6 Comments

Fruition in Stereo

A stereographic projection of the Manistee lighthouse scene:

Published by Branden August 22nd, 2007 in Photography.
Tags: Flickr, Hugin, Manistee, Michigan, Pano, Stereographic. 11 Comments

Fruition

Back in May I purchased a new fisheye lens and a new pano head so that I could shoot higher quality panos than those I got with my last camera. Nearly four months have passed, and I’ve finally gotten a chance to start working on some of these new images. This is my first decent image with the new camera/lens/rig/software, so it took a while to get it all working smoothly. You can see the full-res image on Flickr, and an interactive version here.

This was shot in Manistee, Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan (right about here). It’s a bit melancholy for me, as it was taken on what surely will have been our last visit there. We spent a few holidays there during the Winter, but not nearly enough time in the warmer months. My mom and sisters live in Delaware now, so there’s very little drawing me back to this tiny coastal town, and I’ll actually miss it.

In other news: I’m incredibly tired, and yet this is the only time of night/day that I can get these sorts of things done, so I blog at 1:30 in the am. I’m going to go check to see if there are any bats in my basement then I’m off to bed. Cheers.

Published by Branden August 21st, 2007 in Photography.
Tags: Equirectangular, Flickr, Hugin, Manistee, Michigan, Pano, Photos. 9 Comments

Tokyo Widescreen

Past blaster! It’s been nearly two years since these were taken, and almost as much time has passed since they had a home online. James asked about them recently (recently as in a couple of months ago), so I figured it was about time I get them posted again.

Click on the images for the QTVR, or see the full-res photos in this Flickr set. If you’re feeling adventurous, try both.