Photography

I like to cheat; pictures are worth a thousand words so I have to write less.

Shanin and I went to San Francisco for a delayed anniversary and to get away for a while. We had a great time, though we did walk a long way! On Thursday, we did two round trips from our hotel behind City Hall (Inn at the Opera, quite a nice place) to the Tenderloin for dinner and because I forgot my card there (oops!): about 3 miles. On Friday, we did a long hike from our hotel down to Market St., up to the Castro Theater, from there on an urban hike to Twin Peaks and back, to the...
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A few people have asked me how I put together panoramic photos like these, so I figured I’d write a post about how I do it. Frankly, there’s not much to it; I’m using a few tools which make it pretty easy. It’s much tougher using Photoshop or the GIMP (an open-source program much like Photoshop) because of all the manipulations you have to do to the photos, rotation, skew, mutations, etc.

The main tool I use to take a lot of the guesswork out of it is Autopano Pro from Kolor. It’s super easy to use, and...
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Yosemite Panoramas
2015-02-07

We went to Yosemite with Shanin’s folks at the end of January and man, is it gorgeous there! We also had some stellar weather, with ridiculously blue skies and not a cloud to be seen.

Of course, with such picturesque scenery, I feel I would be remiss if I didn’t take tons of pictures and at least one panoramic one; I paid for the software (Kolor’s AutoPano Pro which, incidentally, works perfectly on Ubuntu and is pretty freaking stellar and easy to use), so I might as well put it to use, yes?

Below, you can find my favorite...
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I took a number of panoramas while we were on our Disney Cruise because sometimes a normal-sized picture just doesn’t capture enough. Due to various technical difficulties and limitations, I've moved them onto a separate static page; you can find it here: <http://www.i-josh.com/chyrp/static/pages/pano.php>. Please, feel free to enjoy them and have a look!. For a preview, here's thumbnails of the panos: **UPDATE** The panoramas be here soon; I kinda broke/lost them during a couple unfortunate computer migrations, so I'm rebuilding them.

Here we go; I rebuilt the panoramas so they’re back up and running; woo!


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