Comments on: Fstoppers BTS Contest Entry: Small World

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 20:13:00 +0000

Cheers, O’nev, I’m glad you got something out of it. Mission accomplished! ;)

By: O'nev

O'nev — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:29:00 +0000

Robert, you taught me couple of photoshop tricks :-) I was smiling ear to ear with your video on this, well done.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 08:53:00 +0000

Cheers, M!

By: M

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 07:30:00 +0000

I’m pretty sure I saw this in a European photo magazine a few years ago. Cool tut though.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the “what the hell is that accent” translation! :) Rock on!

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the “what the hell is that accent” translation! :) Rock on!

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:32:00 +0000

AARGH! The accent claims it’s first victim! … but Marcelo got it right, Trey Ratchiffs website is http://www.stuckincustoms.com, and he has a great HDR tutorial. Remember though, you can do HDR even if you don’t have an expensive camera with auto-bracketing. Any camera that takes RAW pics – you can post-expose the source photo in to several for HDR processing as there’s a lot more data in the RAW that you can “see”, if you get my meaning. For non-RAW capable camera such as compact cameras, you can take the shots seperately while manually adjusting the exposure between each shot – software will re-align the shots for you, but movement in the scene will look weird in the finished product.

….maybe I should do a vid “HDR for cheaper camera owners….” :)
Ojas, if you do try HDR, please post your results! I’d love to see them.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:25:00 +0000

Can you post a link to your wide-angle pics? I’ve LOVE to get my hands on a fisheye, but for now they’re out of my …uh.. budgetary limits.

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 01:07:00 +0000

HAHA! Yuh, the place I’m from is south of Texas, Mike … waaaaaaaaaaay south! :)

By: Robert Simpson

Robert Simpson — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:53:00 +0000

Hey Jock … yuh, I wanted to spend a little more time on “why” too, but I was planning to post on YouTube at first and they limit you to 10 minutes.

Crunching the pic in to a square makes the final result a circle. Crunching a rectangle results in an oval. This can be used to your advantage if you want to avoid skewing your subject (as mentioned) and then trim off the bottom leaving the top half looking like “the curve of the Earth” ….

Please do give it a try, I’d love to see your results!