Skype (video beta for Mac) automatically found my Panasonic video camera. Yeah whatever, right? It found it attached through the FIREWIRE connection! Before my Mac would only allow the USB connection, and you had to set the camera to “web cam” mode.
I don’t know what happened since then (about two years ago) but now it automatically finds the camera through the Firewire port. That is crazy.
-BOB-
Thanks to pano add-on in Photoshop (with the smart picture merge) and some editing knowledge, I finally created another masterpiece. Thank you, thank you. Chuxiong City starts is on the righthand side and this photo is (obviously) facing west.
Go to this directory and click around for different sizes. The grain on the picture is because I was shooting at 800 or 1600.
Enjoying the free time while it’s here,
Bob
Update:
I took these a little earlier with a 50mm and I had it at f/1.8 so it could have a faster shutter speed in the dark. I learned a little about Photomerge, so the editing on this one was about 1/2 the time.
Update 2:
Here’s towards the city a few minutes before the other first “update” shot.
The latest movie edited in Final Cut Pro 5.04. It’s pretty dry!
Shot of Chuxiong City, taken a little before that last picture entry. CX is nestled in a valley between the surrounding (LA-like) mountain range.
I think, to make this a better picture, you need to set the camera to a fixed mode so that the exposure for the sky stays the same. Otherwise you get different color skies (as seen in the photo.)
There are also Photoshop tricks, I can’t really remember, but something about going in channel layers, going to the blue layer (which then makes the photo B/W temporarily) and you match the shade with the neighboring shade, and presto, you have the same color blue when you exit out of channel mode.
You can also see how I clone-tooled the left hand side of the overlapping skies (which kinda works), but the right side, the sky was just too bright so I gave up.
I’ll try this again tonight on the mountain.
-BOB-
Ladies and Gentleman, I’m pleased to present Robert Thompson’s “Rich Sky Ivory Moon Free Photoshop” masterpiece.
Tom’s video on his daily v-blog is hilarious! I love how he counts like 1… 2… 3.. (and it’s like 10 seconds already.) The 2 jigawatts made me laugh, I knew you were gonna say that. Then the gloss, yes, the gloss.
Can’t wait to get this thing. Thank you Tom for ALLLL your help!
the gloss,
bob
Nice.
This thing is pretty cool. I mean, it’s a keybaord and that’s about it, but it sure beats the $3.00 USD black knock-off I was using. It has arrow keys and the numeric keypad, as well as the F1-12 keys. Much better than trying to do all that on my laptop.
Hopefully, this will be the beginning of the end of the posture problems. Chun Mei said get the wireless one so we can control the computer across the room when we watch movies. Hehe.
Bob
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