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A first entry
Keith Martin 2008-Sep-28 11:42:00
We have another new entrant - my son Max has submitted his first WWP pano.
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu:8090/gen/live_preview/wwp908/html/MaxMarti...
It looks particularly dark in the opening position. He wanted it to
be like that - moody, dim and painterly. I like it, but I'm also
wondering if it is perhaps *too* dark when viewed in Windows? (I'll
pass on suggestions - he didn't want to sign up to the list and get a
regular influx of WWP emails. :-)
He's just started his final year at high school. He's doing
Photography, Film Studies, and Art for his A-levels, and he's heavily
into stop-frame animation work. (We've tried making a stop-frame
video pano, but we've not yet sorted out the technical processes.)
He wanted to shoot a local area scene at night, using the rich colour
of the sodium-vapour streetlights and shooting with a daylight white
balance. He was then going to edit the areas not around the lights,
turning them into grey in Photoshop - but in the end he liked the
monochrome effect of the streetlights so much that he kept it as shot.
He was really particular about cleaning up the nadir shot. He was
frustrated by the multiple shadows of the tripod that were cast by
the different streetlights, but he very quickly got the hang of the
Clone Stamp tool.
Equipment was mine of course. He works with film at school and we
develop B&W 35mm at home, but he didn't want the hassle of trying
this with a non-digital medium.
k