Category: Photos
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Creating Stop Motion Video
For fun today, Jesse constructed a stop motion scene with legos and a hand-drawn backdrop. Meanwhile, I wrote an animation process. I wrote it as two scripts: one to resize input from my camera, the other to actually animate the pictures. My ImageMagick resize script is reasonably simple, and if you search for other animation…
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[panorama] Calico Ghost Town Schoolhouse
I’ve clearly cooked the color on this a bit. However, this is more like what you would get after (mythical) rain. The color of the sediments in the Calico hills are quite impressive, and I don’t think I over-did it. Hugin HDR stitch, 3x1ev bracketing; Gimp: grey overlay, color enhance layer.
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Calico Fire Wagon
Here is an HDR panorama experiment. I stitched with Hugin and eported as a HDR tiff which LuminanceHDR let me play with. I settled on the Fattal operator on this one. Impressive how much the pre-gamma adjustment can let you do.
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Paradise Hills Springs
This is a historical location that used to be visited by silent-movie stars. In the distance you can see Cyote Lake.
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Ford…Fairlane?
This might have been a 1964 Fairlane, but the details (like bumper blinker) do not match images I found. This was one of the two vehicles abandoned on Jay and Ellen’s property from previous owners. There are so many bits of nostalgic junk back there that I could be in photo subjects for a straight…
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Going Too Fast [pano desktop background]
I found this on my walk with Jay. He has a trash pile tucked away in his property, left my many previous owners. Tires, TVs, old appliances, all covered over with blackberries and moss. Pentax K10D 50mm, 800iso, f3, 1/30-1/100 bracketed. HDR pano in Hugin; three layers in Gimp: gray, color enhanced.
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