RetouchPRO - Entries for December 2007

Something different

Posted 12-30-2007 at 01:45 PM by Frank Lopes

One of my first vertical black & white panos.

A larger size pano is here

Any comments?

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Focal length issues in pano shooting

Posted 12-24-2007 at 09:43 AM by Frank Lopes
Updated 12-24-2007 at 10:03 AM by Frank Lopes

Since I shoot with Nikon cameras, most of these lens references are based on my personal experiences with Nikon equipment. The general concepts however apply to any manufacturer.

The focal length of a camera lens is the distance between the center of the lens and the film/sensor when an in-focus image is formed of an object far away.

This fact causes the angle of view of the camera to be inversely proportional to the focal lens. Another way to look at it is: the...

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Panoramic Cameras

Posted 12-22-2007 at 02:10 PM by Frank Lopes

Myself and 99.99% of pano photographers, use what I would call normal cameras. Point and Shoot, DSLR, rangefinder, are the more common types of cameras.

For the professional and serious pano enthusiasts, there is another very different type of camera that comes into play: panoramic cameras.

These are highly specialized cameras, most of them expensive, that are designed from the ground up to do one thing and one thing only: shoot panoramas.

I have never owned...

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This is a Rant: things I resent

Posted 12-14-2007 at 07:25 PM by Frank Lopes

Having to pay US$5,000 for Nikon's best DSLR (D3), when their top of the line film SLR (F6) goes for US$1,600. So much for advances in digital technology...

Having to know Photoshop (or PaintShop, or Elements, or Lightzone, or...) to be able to produce a good photograph. I wonder what Ansel Adams did without Adobe...

Having to shoot sometimes hundreds of photos to capture that special moment. I wonder what the percentage of "keepers" is for top photographers......

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The Making of a Triptych

Posted 12-09-2007 at 10:08 PM by ScubaMargie

Have your ruler and guides turned on so you can accurately slice your image into three.

1: Open the image.

2: Get your rectangular marquee tool and make a selection about a third of the way along the image. Copy this selection to a new layer by hitting control C then control V.
(If your image is 30cm wide cut it into pieces 10 cm wide.) Do this twice more starting...

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