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If you’re anything like me, you at some point discovered a button alowing you to take panorama pictures. Perhaps you try it once or twice, and then you think ‘well, that was fun, now what?’ and promptly forget about it. You did, didn’t you? I knew it.

Finally, there’s a solution… Read the rest of the article »

Panoramas are an excellent way of seeing the world around you, but it’s not always easy to get them right. Stitching photos together is nearly impossible without decent software, and most decent software costs a metric crapload of money.

There are decent ‘real’ panorama cameras out there, of course, but cameras like the Hasselblad X-pan will set you back as much as a small car.

Luckily, there are other products out there… Read the rest of the article »

So, they decided to exile Pluto from our little planetary club. What? Suddenly a planet less? Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. Nonetheless, it’s getting a bit lonely down here, afting having an 11% decrease in number of planets to deal with over night.

So, we were most happy when we discovered that our old comrades over at PhotoJoJo had stumbled across a wicked solution: With the power of Photoshop, panoramas and more than a little bit of creativity, you can make your own planets - just like that! Read the rest of the article »

In a completely unrelated post, I received a rather lengthy comment today. I suspect the main purpose of the post was to get a link to his site, but of course, Photocritic uses REL=NOFOLLOW (read why) on all the user-contributed links, so the spamming activity went without any particular merit.

What was insteresting, however, was that this person actually raised an interesting issue and an fascinating question. He says that 75% of people buy the wrong camera for his photography courses… Read the rest of the article »

There’s some amazing software out there for panoramic photography: They warp, stitch and blend sequences of photos so that they look like one big, seamless panoramic photo.

To get the full benefit out of this software, however, you need a good tripod - and panoramic tripod heads are ridiculously expensive. Unless, of course, you build one yourself… Read the rest of the article »