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Kilgore661
United Kingdom
Gigapans: 303
Snapshots: 809
Bookmarks: 5
Last Visited: February 09, 2010
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Taken late on a winter afternoon.
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A while-I-was-passing hand-held mosaic made from 42 images taken on a Canon SD880. I knew the sky was going to be more-or-less white, so for the next shot (http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/42123/) I tried to get some detail into the sky.
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A while-I-was-passing hand-held mosaic made from 21images taken on a Canon SD880. I wanted to see if I could make a gigapan without a white sky on a grey day in contrast to http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/42122/ . Not bad I think but the subject is still too dark.
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Another one for the "try and do this better another time" folder, but it suffices for the project I am working on. I was surprised how little the four big trees in the centre of the Circus interfere with the 360º view - of course the fact that the trees are bare helps.
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I have avoided taking this far too obvious shot for nearly two years, but the other day I found myself in the area with time to kill ...
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Test shot for something larger to come.
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I have been meaning to investigate this little valley to the south of Bath for some time. From the map (see below) it looked like there were a number of promising gigapanographic opportunities. It turned out most of the the views are blocked by trees and hedges, but there was enough of interest to make the trip worthwhile. You can see Midford Castle in two of the images. This was owned by the actor Nicholas Cage until recently. There is also a curiously tiny church/chapel-like structure in one of the images, but I cannot find it now!
What you see here is a combination of shots I like and shots that are not very interesting but warrant further investigation. Taken together, I hope they convey some sense of what the valley is like. There is history here too - but that will have to wait until I return with my imager to do the job properly. If you're interested to see where the valley is then here is a link to the very excellent Where's the Path page: http://tinyurl.com/yhjqxe5/.
All images are tone-mapped with varying degrees of (in)competence. Regular vistors to these pages will know that I have an interest in tone-mapping (or 'HDR' as it is incorrectly sometimes called). What you see here is a variety of treatments done manually with The Gimp. I have looked into Photomatix and Photoshop but neither seems to be capable of coping with big enough images. I know about Photomatix's batch mode but that can't cope with the size of images I normally take, so I would be interested to hear from anyone who knows how to get around this problem.
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This is the workshop of the astronomer William Herschel at the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath. Not all of the exhibits are Herschel's but they are contemporary or facsimilies, so what we see here must be very close to what Herschel himself would have seen.
There is a close-up of the workbench here: http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/36546/.
Images taken with the kind permission of and © Bath Preservation Trust (http://www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/).
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Work in Progress
Created: February 9, 2010
Taken From: Weston from Beckford's Tower
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This tiny door is where I hope to take a gigapan from one day. It is only about 18" wide and one has to be qualified to tie ropes etc to go outside. Note the ladder to the right of the door. Fancy going up that?
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Incurable Romantic?
Created: February 4, 2010
Taken From: Weston in the Rain I
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Why is it that I really like these old advertising signs painted on houses? If they were contemporary then I would positvely hate them. I wonder if someone left up an advertisng hoarding for say Nokia phones for 50 years people would look at it with fondness?
I suppose that's what I had in mind when I took http://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/22476/ where you can see both ancient and modern advertising, but realistically the chances of Larkhall deeming a poster for Lesbian Vampire Killers worthy of preserving in situ for posterity were always going to be vanishingly small.
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