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4wd · « **Reply #300 on:** May 03, 2015, 10:44 PM »

Back when we had the lunar eclipse in April, taken with my aging Canon A720is at full magnification, (optical + digital):

~450kB

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I wish I'd had my new camera, Olympus SH-60:

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Both taken handheld.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #301 on:** May 10, 2015, 08:20 PM »

This is a screenshot of a panorama of the mountains north of here that I made yesterday of shots taken immediately before then. In spite of the panorama being made just after, I could not reshoot them when some of the sections were unusable. Sic transit gloria mundi. Let me know if you want the full-resolution panorama. It is 17 MB in size, I will provide a link to a site where you can download it.

Curt · « **Reply #302 on:** May 14, 2015, 04:49 PM »

My view from the deck on the back of house...

-hamradio (October 19, 2014, 07:07 PM)

^ in my dreams this is exactly what the view from my place would be like

(first replace sewer pipe with jetty)
I am so in love with this view, hamradio. Is it Watauga Lake?

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #303 on:** June 29, 2015, 11:53 AM »

Some pictures of the sunset here a week ago.

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tomos · « **Reply #304 on:** June 29, 2015, 01:51 PM »

Some pictures of the sunset here a week ago.
-Arizona Hot (June 29, 2015, 11:53 AM)

I always enjoy seeing Arizona (I was going to say the desert - but I dont know if it is - would you call it desert?)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #305 on:** June 29, 2015, 09:27 PM »

always enjoy seeing Arizona (I was going to say the desert - but I dont know if it is - would you call it desert?)
-tomos (June 29, 2015, 01:51 PM)

It doesn't matter. The big thing in these pictures is the sky, not the ground.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #306 on:** July 05, 2015, 08:13 AM »

Rain clouds wrapped around a mountain.

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Deozaan · « **Reply #307 on:** August 13, 2015, 05:06 PM »

There's a wildfire somewhat nearby that is currently spreading about 1.5 miles every 8 minutes. This is probably due in large part to it being over 100 degrees F today, with strong ~12mph winds.

I didn't know it (the smoke) was so close until I came into my office and saw that the light shining onto the curtains from the windows is all brown/orange, making it look like sunset. I looked out the window to see this:

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tomos · « **Reply #308 on:** August 13, 2015, 05:09 PM »

^ hope it's not going your direction :-/

Deozaan · « **Reply #309 on:** August 13, 2015, 08:36 PM »

It looked like sunset at 5PM:

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hope it's not going your direction :-/
-tomos (August 13, 2015, 05:09 PM)

It is, but there's a fairly large river between us and the fire. I'm pretty sure it won't jump the river. But there are people in the path of the fire who are being evacuated.

So while I'm probably safe, there are people being affected by this.

Here's a video of firefighters (unsuccessfully) trying to keep it from jumping over the highway:

https://www.facebook...s/10206146221668832/

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mouser · « **Reply #312 on:** August 20, 2015, 11:45 AM »

latest:

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tomos · « **Reply #313 on:** August 20, 2015, 11:55 AM »

latest: (see attachment in previous post)
-mouser (August 20, 2015, 11:45 AM)

have a nice holiday

rjbull · « **Reply #314 on:** August 24, 2015, 04:41 PM »

latest: (see attachment in previous post)
-mouser (August 20, 2015, 11:45 AM)

If that's Illinois, global warming is worse than I thought...

mouser · « **Reply #315 on:** August 24, 2015, 04:48 PM »

If that's Illinois, global warming is worse than I thought...

i just got back from a week's family vacation in mexico (near cancun).

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #316 on:** September 16, 2015, 11:19 AM »

Show us the View Outside Your Window

This is a screenshot of a panorama made from a series of pictures I took a month and a half ago, but didn't think to make a panorama of until today. I call it "Layered mountains".

tomos · « **Reply #317 on:** September 16, 2015, 01:17 PM »

^ very nice Arizona

and the panorama is very cleanly made.

PS taking a screenshot of an image is a great idea - nice easy way to resize an image for the forum

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #318 on:** September 16, 2015, 02:14 PM »

08-02-15 Layered mountains - Autostitch.jpg

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The previous panorama was made with Microsoft ICE 2.0.3.0. This panorama was made with University of British Columbia AutoStitch 2.2. It produced an image using sections of the mountains to the right of the ones used in the Microsoft image. If you want, I can upload the original pictures for you to experiment with other panorama programs. The view made with Serif Panorama Plus was essentially the same.

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The previous Microsoft panorama was made with Pictures #1 & 2 of the series. This view was made with #3 & 4 of the series. A screenshot of picture #5 is below. These are provided in case anyone wants to try manually merging them with Photoshop( I don't have that). I think that if I had thought of making a panorama then I could have produced one that combined the whole area.

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4wd · « **Reply #319 on:** September 16, 2015, 08:10 PM »

If you want, I can upload the original pictures for you to experiment with other panorama programs.
-Arizona Hot (September 16, 2015, 02:14 PM)

I can whack them into AutoPano and see what the result is if you like, it gives you very fine grain control over image pair points if the automatic mode falls a bit short.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #320 on:** September 18, 2015, 05:33 AM »

4wd: I sent Google Drive links to you as a message.

4wd · « **Reply #321 on:** September 18, 2015, 06:59 AM »

AutoPano would only detect two panoramas using the first two and second two images, (1441 wasn't included), so cropped and rendered both to TIFF.
Then forced it to include the second panorama and a cropped 1441 in a panorama and edited the control points, rendering out the result to TIFF.

Finally, forced it to include the first panorama and third panorama, edited the control points (the perspective/focal change and not much contrast didn't give a really good optimisation) to end up with the final result:

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I'll upload the final TIFF (~48MB) to OneDrive and send you a link if you like.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #322 on:** September 18, 2015, 08:57 PM »

I'll upload the final TIFF (~48MB) to OneDrive and send you a link if you like.
-4wd (September 18, 2015, 06:59 AM)

Certainly!, I really like what you have done.

4wd · « **Reply #323 on:** September 18, 2015, 11:26 PM »

A little Vibrance and CLAHE: Surreal added with Sagelight:

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Tends to highlight where the images were merged though.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #324 on:** September 21, 2015, 10:30 AM »

I believe I have posted links to 2 collections of sunsets which have sunsets as colorful as that. Should I re-post the links?