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Timisoara - September 2

Valentin Arfire

New member
some random shots I have taken on Sept 2nd

the spherical panoramas and some mercators

http://www.360cities.net/image/02-0...ic-post-socialist-courtyard#128.40,-3.10,70.0

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http://www.360cities.net/image/02-09-2010-timisoara-bridge-episcopal#338.70,-3.40,70.0

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http://www.360cities.net/image/02-09-2010-by-night-timisoara-piata-unirii#40.50,0.60,70.0

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Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Valentin,

Your extracts from your 360 degree panoramas, are in themselves so attractive. I encourage everyone to click through to see the rest of each panorama and enjoy exploring the view all around. This is, BTW, a vey good way of practicing composing as one can look within each panorama for portions which in themselves make great pictures.

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief

Valentin,

The curve on the left foreground complements the bridge on the span on the right. That sky is spectacular. This is a great example of being able to with the aid of reconstruction a vision that is otherwise impossible to get by accident.

however, now we see this, I wonder whether or not we can look at the scene and turn and imagine all this fused together. Can one in fact have the real world re-invoke the experience that only a lens and computer can give us?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Valentin,

I like this series of extractions from the panoramas you make! They are impressive and a good path for generation new views.

Timisoara - yet another panorama
Inspired by the effect of the crisis in the construction business here, I made the following one

http://www.360cities.net/image/timisoara-cityscape-during-the-crisis-in-2010#322.90,3.10,70.0

I extracted 2 hemispheres


cityscape_during_crisis_a.png



cityscape_during_crisis_b.png

In this last image, can one expand the resulting hemisphere and so make the building on the right rectilinear? IOW, can we alter the projection? do you have choices?

Asher
 

Valentin Arfire

New member
the easyest way is to extract the desired perspective from the spherical panorama
:)

I did something like that (re-stitch it for this planar) and here is the result I hope you find interesting


panorama_planar.jpg



or another one in Mercator projection


mercator_crop.png
 

Jeremy Waller

New member
Hello Valentin,

This work is wonderful. I really need to look at the work for much longer - but some of us have to mow what passes to be a lawn and kill weeds !!!


Jeremy
 

Valentin Arfire

New member
:)

kindly thank you Jeremy and Asher

you are too kind in appreciating my photo

As a different perspective, I've been hardly criticized for this ugly part of my town by a fellow very gifted colleague photographer from the fotovest club here in Timisoara. She said that the perspective I've chosen for them was strange and won't permit a focus on a subject of the picture

The image extract was this one - taken near the spot of the panorama

THE WAY
the_way.jpg

and after explaining that the point of the picture was the crisis, the chaotic and desperate development of the entire country, the cars that are parked in the middle of the road, the rusty pipeline, the painful contrast between the new buildings ( the corporate buildings include some official and some corporations - they all appeared in the last 5 years some 20 years ago there was a hill - the only one in Timisoara!!! where kids would play with sledge in the winter) and the green on the other side of the street and the intersection in the end that induce a sense of desolation, she said that she really prefers the attitude to be positive. :)
 

Jeremy Waller

New member
Somehow Valentin I do not find the last image as depressing as you suggest. I suppose that I do not share your experience.

But IMHO you can make a really depressing picture out of scenes from your Gothic Post Socialist Courtyard !!!

I really like this work.

Regards,

Jeremy.
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These, Valentin are remarkable as pictures in themselves. It's so dramatic, the bicycle on one end and then that devastation!

What's going on with the softness?

Asher
 

Valentin Arfire

New member
:) thank you Asher

the work-flow was as follows:
- jumping with the bicycle through a hole in the cement wall surrounding the terrain
- discovering that ISO 400 is still small for the advancing evening - I usually like 100
time value: 1/10; aperture 9;
I have extracted one over, one normal and one monochrome; enfused all three and liked the result - the over+the underexposed make a nice sunset BUT the desolation left by the remains of the buildings changes to focusing to small plants and colors that explode among the bricks and cement

then I made 3 planar projections but 2 are very close

I suppose the colors are dimmed but in the same manner the grays are enriched
 
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