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Comment on Headshot Photography Basics by First crack at a headshot. PLEASE C&C - The Photo Forum - Photography Discussion Forum

Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:58:19 +0000

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Comment on Fine Art Portfolio by cxxxx

cxxxx — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:56:57 +0000

Nice picz!

Comment on Nikkor-P 1200mm on a Canon EOS 5D: Are you kidding me? by Galen

Galen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:58:40 +0000

Vic,
I really don’t have any idea what this lens is worth. I’ve done a bit of searching online, but haven’t been able to come up with anything. Short of getting it appraised, I don’t know if I’d be able to come up with a value, and it’s unlikely that anyone around my area (Tucson, Arizona) would be qualified to value it. If you’re able to find anything, please let me know.

Galen

Comment on Nikkor-P 1200mm on a Canon EOS 5D: Are you kidding me? by vic loutit

vic loutit — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:05:53 +0000

I have an opportunity to buy one of these, but no idea what it`s worth! Any idea?

Comment on Nikkor-P 1200mm on a Canon EOS 5D: Are you kidding me? by Galen

Galen — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:44:37 +0000

Gregory,
I haven’t had the lens long enough to know if I really have use for it. There are a few things I’d certainly like to try in order to determine what its limits are in relation to the things I want to shoot, and there are other things I’d like to try, just for fun. I’ll keep you in mind, though, and feel free to check back with me a a later date.

Galen

Comment on Nikkor-P 1200mm on a Canon EOS 5D: Are you kidding me? by Gregory Rogalsky

Gregory Rogalsky — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 19:13:19 +0000

Do you want to sell this lens . I would be very interested in buying it your interested. rogaltacdesign @gmail.ca

Comment on PTAssembler 5.0 Released by Galen

Galen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:52:07 +0000

Photoshop CS3 (and CS4) has a surprisingly capable PhotoMerge function; unfortunately, it doesn’t allow for much control over the output. Sometimes the resulting panorama or mosaic will curve upward or downward, giving it a distorted look. Other times it may leave pieces out or put them in the wrong place(s).

Usually, I’ll run my images through Photoshop first to see how it handles the job, or simply as a preview. If it doesn’t come out the way I want it, then I use PTAssembler. PTAssembler has many more projection methods to choose from as well as the ability to select matching control points within adjacent images. Read the link in the original post for an excellent summary of PTAssembler features and a description of control points.

PTAssembler is a complex program, but it has allowed me to create large or complicated panos where Photoshop or other simple methods have failed.

On a side note – and this is something I haven’t tried yet – PTAssembler also has the ability to “stack” images, as well as stitch them. By stacking, you can take, for instance, two photographs at different exposures, and blend them into one high dynamic range image. Or you can take photos of a scene at different points of focus and blend them so that the entire scene is in focus. Combine these options with stitching multiple images into a panorama or mosaic and the resulting image is something that would be impossible to capture (as far as I know) in a single photograph with any camera and lens currently available. More details on stacking and blending can be found here:

http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr_help_stack_example.htm

Comment on PTAssembler 5.0 Released by KonstantinMiller

KonstantinMiller — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:55:31 +0000

Hello, can you please post some more information on this topic? I would like to read more.