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![[Photo processing] Leiden, Hudson’s Bay](http://opeanut.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/A1R09195-Edit-Edit-1920x768.jpg)
My plan was to go the Saturday Flea Market, but arrived too late after meandering small picturesque alleys (canals) in the city and ended up shooting the market place, esp Hudson’s Bay in here… It would be better to rent a bicycle to have round trip of the city canals, but I took a walk […]
Wide Angle lens Panorama It is difficult to merge 2 shots in Panorama seamlessly when use wide angle lenses. Stitching 2 photo requires precise ‘jointing line’ but perspective distortion inherited wide angle lens often ended up uneven jointing line, exaggerated distortion or weird result. Erasmus Bridge with 17mm lens Here is 2 photos to be […]
Starting point – in front of Rijks Museum. Rembrant’s ‘Night Watch’ has been restored recently. It is a beautiful master piece indeed but looks too fresh to be hundreds years old painting. Restoration may be too good or too perfect… :- ) Dutch maritime exhibition, even the model itself is very impressive […]
Structural under exposure and yellow smearing The first thing I noticed when switch to Sony A7 II couple of years ago is the picture underexposed usually at normal exposure. When develop raw files in the Lightroom, I have to crank most of the them up +0.5 to +1.5 exposure steps, therefore suspect Sony body intentionally […]
I have had a certain expectation on Canon 85/1.2 (so called Mantou lens) before purchasing, so in here review if it performs as expected. Key areas to check are AF accuracy in various shooting environment (this is a buying point for me as manual lens user) and color rendition on Sony body. I use Carl […]
Photo Technique: exposure to avoid highlight wash out When shoot this scene, noticed strong and bright lighting illuminates foreground of the building, it will wash out highlight hopelessly in normal exposure. Compensate exposure for highlight will darken other area too much. Then, bracketing is the only way, right? To balance highlight and dark area & […]
Remove or add human factor? Last time, I processed couple of photos right after returning from 1st shoot-out to CKS park & throw them to Opeanut Group page asking critique and feedback. I’ve been there clearly in mind to take cityscape, such as architecture & structure, but I lost direction how to develop them & […]
click photo for larger view Introduction Chang Kaishek memorial park (aka CKS park) located at the center of Taipei city and it is one of main attraction for tourists. Everyday, tour buses and groups from all over the world pave through this place. This is typical sightseeing for tourist Everything in here is massive. Because […]
![[Work note] Yilan Panorama shot](http://opeanut.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/A1R03915-Edit-Edit-Edit-6-1875x750.jpg)
Definition of ‘panorama’ and ‘stitching’ Panorama : photo stitched to make elongated frame horizontally OR vertically, or cropped from single frame as elongated frame, it is the panorama Stitching : photo stitched horizontally AND vertically to make normal frame, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5 and 1:1 Hot spring, Jiaoxi, Taiwan I visited Jiaoxi township which is located […]
The characteristics of Large format camera The distinctive characteristic of large format camera is, at the first a large film area obviously, and it’s capability to tilt and shift front plate and back plate to manipulate the image plane. Stitching multiple photos has the effect increasing the sensor area as shown below. It will multiply […]