I’ve Moved!
November 20, 2008
So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:
In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here
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That said, this is not the end of Time Immortal. My wife Grace has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.
Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.
Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.
Pic of the Day #482
January 14, 2008
The Ancient Agora used to be the marketplace of old Athens, more or less. There were any number of residences there as well, and quite probably temples, but the majority seems to have been taken up by shops and plazas concerned with the sale of various things. It’s also a fairly large area, covering a substantial majority of the area of the park in the middle of Athens wherein the Acropolis, Areopagus, and Temple of Hephaestus can also be found.
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Another bit of Hugin magic, this panoramic of the Agora is comprised of four or five images, arranged horizontally. These are unusually quick to compose in Hugin, and render very quickly as well. As usual, there aren’t many (any?) visible join seams.
Edit-wise, I did some chromatic aberration reduction on each image prior to exporting it for use in Hugin, and also did some highlight recovery and exposure balancing between shots. My typical Hugin usage is six to eight control points between two pictures, and I forget which rendering view I employed when I finally accepted the output. Not that it matters, I suppose. I had to crop the image a bit, but fortunately there was no need to scale it — the image was not wider than the maximum 10,000 pixels that Lightroom tolerates.
