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 #787
November 14, 2008
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I seem to be doing panoramic photos lately. And it helps that there have been a few photo-worthy sunsets of late, I suppose.
This particular picture was composed from a 3-by-3 grid of photos, assembled in Autopano (Curse your precision, program! I will find your weakness yet!) and then cropped and adjusted in Lightroom. I tried to bring out the buildings in the foreground as much as was possible, although this the results definitely fall short of what one could potentially achieve with HDR. I’m just not ready to try HDR in a panoramic photo yet.
Pic of the Day #786
November 13, 2008
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Here’s another panoramic, with a bit of a twist this time; the real panoramic view of the city is the slightly distorted, slightly warped reverse-angle visible in the windows; the actual city of Edmonton appears properly only on the far right, and then only just.
Basically, I’m trying to contrive situations which cause Autopano to choke. As yet, I haven’t managed to do this.
Pic of the Day #785
November 12, 2008
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I haven’t done a sunset panoramic in a while, and this particular beautiful sunset was a chance to play with Autopano again.
I am also quite pleased with Lightroom’s “Match Total Exposures” feature, which worked exactly as I hoped it would and ensured a nice, even gradient in the sky colour, from light on the left to dark on the right.
Pic of the Day #765
October 23, 2008
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So I was browsing through this category of photos on Flickr, and decided that I wanted to have a go at creating my own “little planet” pictures. This is a first attempt, composed from a 6-shot panoramic I took of a keyboard in the office. It was stitched with Autopano, and then “polarized” in Photoshop. Supposedly, I could have used Hugin to achieve the same effect, but I haven’t figured that part out yet.
Pic of the Day #744
October 3, 2008
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The source file for this panoramic image is huge — on the order of 116 megapixels, if memory serves. The image is composed from 39 shots arranged in a 13×3 grid, and was stitched together with Autopano. There’s a bit more barrel distortion in the picture than I would normally accept, but I can’t fault the overall quality of the stitching — it is superior even to Hugin.
Pic of the Day #727
September 16, 2008
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This is another panoramic image rendered with Autopano, which is becoming a valuable tool for me. It is of, I believe, a saskatoon berry patch at the bottom of a valley.
Pic of the Day #724
September 12, 2008
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This is a panoramic image stitched together using Autopano, from five source images (or was it six?). It’s the dining room at the bed-and-breakfast hotel pictured in yesterday’s picture, which has been done in a late 19th century style.
