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At night with the GigaPan

The Gigabyte Christmas card

A quick trip into Leicester City centre with the Gigapan.

This shot is taken from one made up of 56 individual exposures, using a 90mm lens (TS-E90)

The composite image is around about 1.6 GigaBytes and would make a full resolution print about 2 metres by 3 metres.

Clock tower [...]

GigaPan Epic Pro

Panoramic photography with the GigaPan Epic Pro

We’ve just got a GigaPan Epic Pro for some of our high resolution panoramic photography.

I’m hoping to have a more detailed review when work allows, but in the mean time I’ll post a few shorter updates here on the blog.

Here’s what I’ve used for some time [...]

Looking at Tiffen Dfx3 filters

I’ve recently spent some time looking (via Photoshop) at the digital effects filters from Tiffen, a company known to me for their range of optical filters rather than software.

Review Link: Tiffen Dfx3

The software also works with Aperture and Lightroom, which is not uncommon in filter plugins. However it also works with video editing [...]

Michael Westmoreland at the LPPG

An exhibition of panoramic photography by Michael Westmoreland

If you look at the history of panoramic photography, there is one UK photographer who’s work stands out from the 1970′s both from a technical and artistic point of view.

Michael Westmoreland – 80th birthday exhibition at the LPPG

Larger version of image above [...]

When your prints are too dark

A simple approach to fixing the ‘prints too dark’ problem

Some time ago I wrote an article called ’Why are my prints too dark‘, trying to answer a question I was regularly asked…

In the majority of cases I looked at, it was simply that the monitor was set too bright.

Why should this make [...]

Trying out Infrared photography

More luminous trees

Canon UK recently lent me an Infrared converted EOS 5D mark 2.

I’ve taken quite a few different shots with it and have a longer article with many more images and examples of just how different the infrared world looks.

Article Link: IR photography with a converted 5Dmk2

The conversion is [...]