An Old House, A Lighthouse, Some Flowers & A Fence

GREAPER

dkapp wrote:

Awesome shot!

Do you remember when you were here? I'm not sure when anything blooms as the weather is always the same. I love the flowers in the foreground

Dave

I was there in April of this year (2004).

DavidTO

dkapp wrote:

Thanks David. I just noticed your in Thousand Oaks area. I've spent a lot of time in that general area a few years ago. I spent many sleepless nights installing and testing equipment at a Telecom site in Indio.

Do you get out into the deserts much for landscapes? I've always thought about making a weekend trip, but wouldn't know where to start.

When I was traveling, I usually had to get the work done & head down the road. There wasn't much time for exploring with our deadlines.

Dave

You're thinking maybe of Thousand Palms? That's a bit closer to Indio than I am, I'm halfway between LA and Santa Barbara. (well, not quite halfway).

I do want to get out and shoot some landscapes in the desert. I'd like to go out to Joshua Tree and see what there is to shoot. Last time I was out there was before the digital rennaissance in my photography. I was just shooting snaps.

Mitchell

dkapp wrote:

Love this shot!! The texture on the fence is great. I found the other two lighthouse shots somewhat unsettling. The distortion from the wide angle lens makes the lighthouse seem like it is falling to me! I have a D70 with the same lens and have noted the same distortion at the low end.

mitch

DavidTO

barrel distortion
dkapp,

Your lighthouse got me interested in learning how to correct for distortion. I bought Panotools, and messed around with your shot, and also the perspective transform command in PS. Here's what I came up with. Hope you don't mind. Let me know what you think. No one knows your picture like you do. I'd be interested to hear how I did.

Note that this was just an exercise in learning. I love your shot.

dkapp

DavidTO wrote:

dkapp,

Your lighthouse got me interested in learning how to correct for distortion. I bought Panotools, and messed around with your shot, and also the perspective transform command in PS. Here's what I came up with. Hope you don't mind. Let me know what you think. No one knows your picture like you do. I'd be interested to hear how I did.

Note that this was just an exercise in learning. I love your shot.

It looks real good David. I'll have to check into Panotools. Is that a Windows only application?

I am interested in your workflow.

Dave

DavidTO

dkapp wrote:

It looks real good David. I'll have to check into Panotools. Is that a Windows only application?

I am interested in your workflow.

Dave

It's a PS plug-in, cross platform.

What exactly are you interested in?

dkapp

DavidTO wrote:

It's a PS plug-in, cross platform.

What exactly are you interested in?

You said you used both panotools and perspective transform in PS. How much was done in panotools & perspective transform? I'm trying to figure out if I can duplicate this with more PS knowledge, or if I'm better off buying the other software.

How long did this take you?

Thanks again.
Dave

DavidTO

dkapp wrote:

You said you used both panotools and perspective transform in PS. How much was done in panotools & perspective transform? I'm trying to figure out if I can duplicate this with more PS knowledge, or if I'm better off buying the other software.

How long did this take you?

Thanks again.
Dave

It took maybe 10 minutes. 7 was just trying to figure out what the heck I was doing. I got the bowing out of the lighthouse, but it was still leaning left, so I used transform>perspective and slid the top of the frame right in order to get the lighthouse more vertical.

DavidTO

dkapp wrote:

I'm trying to figure out if I can duplicate this with more PS knowledge, or if I'm better off buying the other software.

You can demo Panotools for 15 days.

dkapp

DavidTO wrote:

You can demo Panotools for 15 days.

Thanks for the link, I'm looking at it now. For $50, its not too expensive.

Dave

DavidTO

dkapp wrote:

Thanks for the link, I'm looking at it now. For $50, its not too expensive.

Dave

I bought the plug-in for $40.

Shakey

Super shots all of them! Thanks for sharing!