Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/07/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]For sure go with the PS pano. It's what they'll see when they stand at the window, right? Bob Bob Shaw rsphotoimages at comcast.net On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:13 PM, Jeff Moore wrote: > [Well, at least when I first tried to send this, this past Thursday > evening, it happened to be within the "FS Friday" window; but for some > reason it just disappeared into the aether and got lost without a > trace. Trying a resend. But it's really about the pictures, not so > much the small, wanly hopeful commercial message at the end.] > > ---------------------------- > > Kath and I have been working on shining up, and now photographing > some, the house I grew up in -- in the woods in southwest/central New > Jersey. > > The real estate agency's photographers should be sweeping in sometime > to photograph the rooms -- they seem to be better at that than I have > been so far -- but when a day came along with nice even light outside, > I wanted to try to capture what I think is the house's premier > feature: the way it's really designed to be a place nestled in the > woods from which feel you're in the woods as you look out. > > The thing is, it seemed necessary to employ a couple of technical > tricks to give what I feel is actually a truer visual representation > of how the human eye takes these views in. For instance, this is the > view out the front window, from the breakfast nook: > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/12561680_4fHcC#913318647_U4jff-A-LB > > I asked Kathryn to use her Photoshop mojo to combine a frame where I > had the interior properly exposed and (mostly) correctly color > balanced with a frame which had the exterior properly exposed and > color balanced. Sure, I still have a number of technical niggles > about this (the most obvious being the odd color balance where the > exterior light falls on the window frame), but still -- I think this > composite gives a truer notion of what a person sees standing in that > room than any straight single frame did. > > Then there's the view out the back. This is just a few frames > stitched together as a pano, because I didn't have a single lens wide > enough to do the trick: > > http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/TvHouse/12561680_4fHcC#913339148_sWhNM-A-LB > > ...and, yes, for the topic police -- all the source frames are from an > M9 with Leica glass. > > Whaddaya think? > > [This house project is why there's been much less LUG blather from me > for the last few months. Perhaps you're grateful.] > > And, hey, since I think For Sale Friday is in progress by now... anybody > want a nice house in the woods? Late '50s style, mostly-brick exterior, > enough land the neighbors aren't sitting in your lap but not that much > lawn to maintain, nice neighbors, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths... New Jersey near > the Delaware river (but above the flood area), Washington Crossing kind > of between Lambertville and Yardley, nearish to Princeton. A commutable > distance north of Philly (if you're commuting-tolerant), neat weekend > relaxation place for NYC folk with more disposable income than I have. > > -Jeff > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information