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Re: A first entry
Nick 2008-Sep-29 04:41:00
Hi Keith
Max's entry looks very good, it's not too dark on Windows.
A stop frame video pano sounds like a great idea, I'll have to look at
creating somthing for the next event.
Good to see your son is taking an interest in pano's.
Nick Milligan.
--- In #removed#, Keith Martin <keith@...> wrote:
>
> 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
>