Romeo

Actually, all cats can look elegant.  It is hard to get a good picture of a black cat, but Photo Shop helps (and having a handsome subject is essential)!

Blizzard of 2010

 

It may be a blizzard on the East coast, but it was just a lovely wet snow here!  I took a series of panorama pics in our local park.  If I get them stitched I'll put them in a later blog (I am still trying to "fine tune" my home built panorama head).

The beauty of Park County....

If you don't have any plans for October, you simply must plan to go to the Park County (Indiana) Covered Bridge Festival !  And for heavens sake, don't do it during the week  when there are only a few tens of thousands of people to annoy you--plan on the being there on the weekend with everyone else in Indiana!  Keep in mind that you have to start early in the morning since all roads leading to (and in) Park County are filled with yard sales and other tourist traps, so you can only go about 5 mph most of the way.  But the wait is worth it!  Look at the lovely outdoor scene I managed to capture.  I can't wait to go back and enjoy the peace and serenity of the great outdoors again this year.

Oh, my head....

This one speaks for itself..  You can make up your own caption if you like!

A moth in 3D

The cute little guy shown here was happily sitting on a piece of white card stock I use for backgrounds, so I quickly took a series of photos to try to capture him in stereo before he took off.  The images from "above" were taken with my FS-2 bioscope and consisted of two series of stacked images combined with Helicon and generated using Stereo Photo Maker.  The second view from the "front" was taken with my D80 hand-held using an extension tube and my 70-300mm zoom with a flash.  SPM was able to properly align and size the images to come up with a pretty good stereo pair.  The anaglyph images must be viewed with red-green glasses and you have to view the side by side images by "uncrossing" your eyes.

 

Three hours later the moth is still sitting on the card stock!

Lake Monroe

This is an interesting accident.  I had three photos that I was trying to merge into an HDR image, but one of them was out of focus and somehow this is what I came up with in Photo Shop.  I doubt that I could ever duplicate the effect, but I really like the result.

Lady bug feet......

I'm getting a bit better with my depth of field stuff.  Here is a rather neat (I think) stereo image of the "foot" of a Japanese Lady Bug. The lady  bug is shown in stereo above (about 15x)  and the "foot" (at about 400x) is shown below.  You have to "uncross" you eyes to see it in 3D.

The closeup image is a blended depth of field with over 69 total images.  The foot is that little thing hanging down in the upper photo (not the pin he is glued to).  I also have it as an anaglyph 3D image in Flickr if you have red/green glasses.