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Spring Photography: Sunsets
Spring Photography: flowers in the garden
The colours of spring after a long, Canadian winter. Taken with a Canon T6i DSLR using Canon’s stock macro lens:
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Spring Photography: flowers in the garden
The colours of spring after a long, Canadian winter. Taken with a Canon T6i DSLR using Canon’s stock macro lens:
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Autumn in the Canadian Woods
Autumn colours and mushrooms in the wet Kawartha Highlands woods.
All photos taken with the Olympus EPL-3 micro four thirds camera in October of 2014.
These are the typical settings for the macro shots below:
E-PL3
f/5.6 1/20 42 mm ISO400
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| Long shutter night shots with flaming sticks and flashlights! |
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| The ruins of a truck deep in the woods, this is the engine. |
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March Break Moments
Some random moments from the weekend…
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| Mercury & Venus at sunset – using the P610 Nikon superzoom bridge camera – I tried higher zoom shots but they didn’t come out (wobbly atmosphere, shaky, cold hands) |
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| Fat finches on the feeder – Using the Canon Rebel T6i with the long ‘kit’ lens (55-250) |
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| Snow flurries were just hanging in the air during a quiet Sunday morning sunrise… |
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| Snow flakes falling… done with the Canon. |
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| Snow falling on trees |
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It’s Editing All The Way Down: Creating a 360 Little Planet Stop Motion Video
This is one of those things that is probably more trouble than it’s worth, but since I have some time on my hands, why not give it a go?
Creating a ‘Little Planet‘ wrapped image out of a panorama or 360 photograph is something you can do directly in Ricoh’s online editing tool…
This is the image embedded in the online uploading tool that you can use with all Ricoh Theta 360 cameras:
https://theta360.com/s/dNyfH8RrBTIGWWf5WGXS8OYzo
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The problem with this process is that it’s quite clunky. You have to upload each photo to the site, then set it to Little Planet, then, if you want to keep photo editing, screen grab it and bring it back down to the desktop. If I’m trying to make a stop motion film out of over 300 photos, making Little Planets this way isn’t going to scale.
The solution was to find a way to create similar appearance in Adobe Photoshop and then batch process all the photos into a little planet format. Instructables has a just such a tutorial. The long and the short of the process is: stretch the photos into a square, flip them and the use a polar coordinates distortion tool to ‘wrap’ the square photo around the centre of the image. The end result isn’t quite as nuanced as Ricoh’s online little planet geometry, which is specifically designed for the details of the Theta camera. It’d be nice if Ricoh shared that geometry so people could duplicate the process in other software.
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| Lots of batch processed little planets! |
I recorded those Instructable actions using the Photoshop script recording tool and then ran the batch ran the script on 384 photos auto-taken on a recent motorcycle ride (the 360 camera is attached to the windscreen). The end result was 384 modified photos outputted to another directory. I then took the photos and dropped them into Adobe Premier Pro, where I set the intro and outro pictures to slightly longer times and the main body to 0.02 seconds per photo, creating the stop motion video effect.
I threw in the intro to Rush’s Red Barchetta as some dystopian future background music (we’re in the middle of social distancing due to COVID19). I fear it’s just a matter of time until travel itself becomes illegal, as it is in the song.
Here is the end result, a 26 second video containing over 380 individual photos batch processed in Photoshop and then edited into a short stop motion video:
The original footage was shrunk from 5376 x 5376 pixels (the ThetaV takes 5376 pixel wide panoramas and I made them square, remember?) to 1000×1000 pixels. My logic there was a 1080p video is 1920×1080 pixels, so 1000×1000 pixels is almost 1080 wide.
Related Posts:
How to Take 360 Photos on your Motorcycle: http://kingfisherimaging.blogspot.com/2018/05/how-to-take-striking-360-photos-while.html
360° on-bike photography: https://tkmotorcyclediaries.blogspot.com/search?q=360
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Variations On A Theme
2019 Action Photography: Motorcycle Photos
Photos taken using a Ricoh Theta 360 camera on a flexible tripod mounted to various parts of the bike and set to auto photo every few seconds. Cleaned up in photoshop or lightroom. You can see a primer on how to make photos like this here (it was also published on Adventure Bike Rider Magazine here).
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Toronto Zoo Photography
The trick to zoo photography is to catch your subject without the enclosure, which becomes an exercise in framing. The Toronto Zoo is a particular nice place to do zoo photography because of the quality of the enclosures. It also happens to have one of the finest plant collections in the world, so if you like taking photos of plants it’s brilliant.
These were taken in the summer of 2012 using the Olympus EPL-3 PEN micro four thirds camera.
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