Photomerge
Before I left for Buenos Aires, my parents gave me a digital camera as an early Christmas present. It's an awesome camera, and I'm really having a lot of fun playing with it.
The other day, I even recorded a 2:30 minute movie of a tango demonstration. The quality is amazing, and I wish that the file was small enough to share here (280 Mb is a little unwieldy).
I'm planning on posting a bunch of pictures here though, and I'm just starting the process of sorting and cropping and optimizing them for the web.
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS2, and have just learned how to use the "Photomerge" tool.... it might be the coolest thing that I've ever seen. It seems like I am often unable to fit a whole scene into my camera's field of view when I'm composing a shot, but with Photomerge, it doesn't matter. It automatically merges two pictures into each other, and even fixes the differences in perspective. So I can just take a bunch of pictures, each containing a small portion of what I want to capture, and it will automatically put them all together for me.
I'm in awe. I've never been much of a photographer--- but with this camera and this software, it's amazing what I can do.
Here is an example of something I shot in the Recoleta cemetary. It was orginally three pictures, because the tomb was so large (I've deliberately not-cropped it, in order to show the perspective edits):
The other day, I even recorded a 2:30 minute movie of a tango demonstration. The quality is amazing, and I wish that the file was small enough to share here (280 Mb is a little unwieldy).
I'm planning on posting a bunch of pictures here though, and I'm just starting the process of sorting and cropping and optimizing them for the web.
I'm using Adobe Photoshop CS2, and have just learned how to use the "Photomerge" tool.... it might be the coolest thing that I've ever seen. It seems like I am often unable to fit a whole scene into my camera's field of view when I'm composing a shot, but with Photomerge, it doesn't matter. It automatically merges two pictures into each other, and even fixes the differences in perspective. So I can just take a bunch of pictures, each containing a small portion of what I want to capture, and it will automatically put them all together for me.
I'm in awe. I've never been much of a photographer--- but with this camera and this software, it's amazing what I can do.
Here is an example of something I shot in the Recoleta cemetary. It was orginally three pictures, because the tomb was so large (I've deliberately not-cropped it, in order to show the perspective edits):
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