Creative Photography

[briantrumpet]

As I'm playing around with Copilot, I asked it to straighten it out - not bad, if slightly droopy at the sides.

 

[briantrumpet]

Actually, now I notice it's stretched it vertically (see the windows in particular) - maybe the code was written by really tall people.

 

[briantrumpet]

Hang on, it's even added extra panes. This is going into the AI fails thread.

 

[DaveReading]

As I'm playing around with Copilot, I asked it to straighten it out - not bad, if slightly droopy at the sides.

I'm impressed that it's managed to include stuff, like the path in the foreground, that wasn't even in my original pano !

 

[briantrumpet]

I'm impressed that it's managed to include stuff, like the path in the foreground, that wasn't even in my original pano !

Is there actually a path there then? I couldn't tell if it was just inventing new stuff, or nicking stuff from other people's photos of it - I gather that AI is getting quite good at recognising views of places.

 

[Way-Out-West]

The AI was pretty good.
I don't take many panoramas, but the ones I’ve tried handheld have usually worked out ok. Full Manual and manually setting the white balance is important to keep exposure/tones the same for each shot. Close foregrounds can raise problems without a nodal rail.
I’ve used this online tool lately which has done a good job and takes seconds to try.https://sisik.eu/pano

Back to the grasses.

 

[briantrumpet]

NABAF (not a blue-arsed fly).

Things you probably didn't want to see no.367: a fly's sphincter.

 

[briantrumpet]

Oh, I took this one thinking of you punks.

 

[Way-Out-West]

A red sunflower. Perhaps not very creative, but I had to get out the stepladder and hold it (the flower) steady in the wind.

 

[briantrumpet]

I felt a bit of a prick.

 

[Way-Out-West]

I felt a bit of a prick.

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Which bit? 😲

 

[presta]

Can anyone suggest a suitable flat bed scanner or possibly a negative scanner please? I am thinking of the Canon LiDE 400 flatbed scanner for 6 x 4 colour photos unless someone knows better?

If you haven't yet got one, I have the LiDE 300, which is miles better than the Kodak scanner I bought for slides.
These are 10x8 Cibachromes at 600dpi:

 

[Ian H]

 

[Ian H]

I'm not entirely sure why, or even if, this works. But I like it for the accumulation of details.

 

[briantrumpet]

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An excellent post.