Photo of the Day August 2017

[zagato27]

I should probably know the model of this car but I'm afraid I don't. So what is this?

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68 or 69 Jag XKE 2+2 (?) coupe, maybe a series II or III. Don't think it's a series I, see the blocky brake light. Might even be a V12, just kind of looks like it to me but you'd have to see the badge on the back. Pretty car.

Here's another pretty car, slightly newer. Never thought a Ferrari should be in any color but red however this yellow is stunning.

 

[anotherscotsman]

Another take on yesterday's. Comments always appreciated.


Wedding buttonhole 3 by another scotsman, on Flickr

 

[Velkus]

Bird of paradise flower!

 

[kenoh]

I should probably know the model of this car but I'm afraid I don't. So what is this?

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Its an e-type Jaguar! Stop teasing

 

[Hughmac]

Crop Field IR by Hugh Russell, on Flickr

Cheers

Hugh

 

[kenoh]

P7300088.jpg by Ken OHagan, on Flickr

Another heavy handed processing example... :-(

 

[mollyc]

A five frame panorama of a sunset one night on the beach right outside the house we rented. I would prefer the horizon to be curved and the shoreline to be straight. Does anyone know how to accomplish that? I just used PS's panorama feature.

 

[Keleko]

Diamond ring just before totality.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

A five frame panorama of a sunset one night on the beach right outside the house we rented. I would prefer the horizon to be curved and the shoreline to be straight. Does anyone know how to accomplish that? I just used PS's panorama feature.

Howdy Molly, to accomplish a panorama that doesn't have this bend to it, you need to rotate on the nodal point for your camera and lens combination, this can be accomplished using a panoramic head like the Nodal Ninja, although there are many cheaper models out there that operate the same. You would also need to have taken several rows of images, especially around the centre section of the image, so you have all that room to get it stitched together again, but Photoshop doesn't cope very well with this sort of task trying to stitch together multiple rows of panoramas, you need to use something like Autopano which makes light work of it.

Ideally, you would have been a bit further away from the shoreline too, this helps to lessen the curvature effect. If you are using Photoshop you could try choosing 'Rectilinear' as the output type for your panorama and see if that makes a difference to the curvature seen above, it should, but my suspicion is that it will squish the centre of the image dramatically from the top to the bottom, as you may not have taken multiple rows of images to compensate for using this assembly method.

 

[anotherscotsman]

P7300088.jpg by Ken OHagan, on Flickr

Another heavy handed processing example... :-(

Heavy-handed perhaps but it fits the scene IMHO. Nice one.

 

[MacRy]

Dangerous territory.
_DSC4778-2 by apple fanboy1, on Flickr

What sort of casket do you want?

 

[mollyc]

Howdy Molly, to accomplish a panorama that doesn't have this bend to it, you need to rotate on the nodal point for your camera and lens combination, this can be accomplished using a panoramic head like the Nodal Ninja, although there are many cheaper models out there that operate the same. You would also need to have taken several rows of images, especially around the centre section of the image, so you have all that room to get it stitched together again, but Photoshop doesn't cope very well with this sort of task trying to stitch together multiple rows of panoramas, you need to use something like Autopano which makes light work of it.

Ideally, you would have been a bit further away from the shoreline too, this helps to lessen the curvature effect. If you are using Photoshop you could try choosing 'Rectilinear' as the output type for your panorama and see if that makes a difference to the curvature seen above, it should, but my suspicion is that it will squish the centre of the image dramatically from the top to the bottom, as you may not have taken multiple rows of images to compensate for using this assembly method.

Good info! I had no idea there were specific tripod heads for this sort of thing; I just handhold and move around. I do try to shoot vertically and then stitch, but I wasn't really thinking at this go round and shot landscape. That would have helped the shoreline issue. Too late now. However, I am thinking that this is a relatively simple scene of just clouds and sand that with a little time I might be able to create the scene as I like if I do a manual panorama. Surely content aware can make up the clouds and the narrow beach at my feet?

I did try a couple of different panorama outputs in PS but none seemed to make an appreciable difference. Mostly I suppose the vast majority of people *do* want that main horizon line straight, so PS works to get it there.

 

[someoldguy]

Looking in the back door .....

 

[Hughmac]

Good info! I had no idea there were specific tripod heads for this sort of thing; I just handhold and move around. I do try to shoot vertically and then stitch, but I wasn't really thinking at this go round and shot landscape. That would have helped the shoreline issue. Too late now. However, I am thinking that this is a relatively simple scene of just clouds and sand that with a little time I might be able to create the scene as I like if I do a manual panorama. Surely content aware can make up the clouds and the narrow beach at my feet?

I did try a couple of different panorama outputs in PS but none seemed to make an appreciable difference. Mostly I suppose the vast majority of people *do* want that main horizon line straight, so PS works to get it there.

Try the Transform tools from the Edit menu, that might get you somewhere.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[mollyc]

Try the Transform tools from the Edit menu, that might get you somewhere.

Cheers

Hugh

I did, but I need to try harder!

 

[Hughmac]

I did, but I need to try harder!

A quick warp; I take it this isn't what you are looking for?

or using de-fishing software...

Cheers

Hugh

 

[oblomow]

not just any pizza

 

[mollyc]

A quick warp; I take it this isn't what you are looking for?
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or using de-fishing software...

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Cheers

Hugh

Yes, I can achieve that on my own. But if you were to stand at the beach like I was, not only would the horizon of the water meeting the sky bend, but so also would the actual beach line - it would follow the same curvature as the horizon. The way this type of warping goes, the beach line still curves UP, not down. I don't mind the curvature of the beach, because that's how it was in real life. Does that make sense?

I realize this is actually a limitation of standing in one spot with the camera, rather than trying to walk down the beach and line everything up.

 

[Hughmac]

Yes, I can achieve that on my own. But if you were to stand at the beach like I was, not only would the horizon of the water meeting the sky bend, but so also would the actual beach line - it would follow the same curvature as the horizon. The way this type of warping goes, the beach line still curves UP, not down. I don't mind the curvature of the beach, because that's how it was in real life. Does that make sense?

I realize this is actually a limitation of standing in one spot with the camera, rather than trying to walk down the beach and line everything up.

Sorry, I have limited skills with post processing.

Cheers

Hugh

 

[mollyc]

Sorry, I have limited skills with post processing.

Cheers

Hugh

No worries! I appreciate your suggestions! I have a vision in my head that I am trying to recreate. I'm getting close doing it manually, it's just kind of sloppy right now. Plus I realize I left too much overlap between each photo, but I will keep at it.

 

[TheDrift-]

Yes, I can achieve that on my own. But if you were to stand at the beach like I was, not only would the horizon of the water meeting the sky bend, but so also would the actual beach line - it would follow the same curvature as the horizon. The way this type of warping goes, the beach line still curves UP, not down. I don't mind the curvature of the beach, because that's how it was in real life. Does that make sense?

I realize this is actually a limitation of standing in one spot with the camera, rather than trying to walk down the beach and line everything up.

Not sure I do, you could use something like adaptive wide angle in PS to level the beach off and curve the sea..it would likely look weird and you would have a big hole in the middle where there is a lack of info in the above pic.

You could always comp the shore line in by hand from each photo, bit of a PITA but should do the job,

 

[kenoh]

Another take on yesterday's. Comments always appreciated.


Wedding buttonhole 3 by another scotsman, on Flickr

I have missed your pin sharp images! Lovely.
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A five frame panorama of a sunset one night on the beach right outside the house we rented. I would prefer the horizon to be curved and the shoreline to be straight. Does anyone know how to accomplish that? I just used PS's panorama feature.

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Hang on a second... can we just take a minute to admire the clouds and the colours in this....
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Right, back to the gadgetry buy a new tripod head chat...

 

[Janichsan]

Torii at the entrance of the Atsuta Shrine in Nagoya:

 

[mollyc]

Not sure I do, you could use something like adaptive wide angle in PS to level the beach off and curve the sea..it would likely look weird and you would have a big hole in the middle where there is a lack of info in the above pic.

You could always comp the shore line in by hand from each photo, bit of a PITA but should do the job,

Yes, I actually did the whole thing manually with a lot of cloning in on the beach, warping, and liquifying etc. and now looks more like I wanted it to! It's almost like a fisheye and probably over-exaggerated, but is much more close to what I saw when I stood on the beach and turned my head. Not sure if I'm allowed a second post today to post it, but I can put it up tomorrow again.

 

[Hughmac]

Yes, I actually did the whole thing manually with a lot of cloning in on the beach, warping, and liquifying etc. and now looks more like I wanted it to! It's almost like a fisheye and probably over-exaggerated, but is much more close to what I saw when I stood on the beach and turned my head. Not sure if I'm allowed a second post today to post it, but I can put it up tomorrow again.

Yes, would love to see the reprocessed image please

Cheers

Hugh