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Macro Photograpy

Hugoagogo — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 07:39:10 +0000

My past few posts have included really big pictures and this post includes some of the opposite. Fiddling around with a lens I have pulled out of a laser printer I found that it greatly magnified things, the obvious next step was to attach it to the front of a camera and see what kind of photos you could take with it. It worked quite well but I had to try to manually focus the camera by adjusting how far I held it from the object and the photos had a very narrow depth of field.

A section of my desk pad where I have scribbled to get pens (standard ballpoint) working

Closer up of the pad, you can even see the fibers in the paper

Close up of some 2mm braided cord

As a last test out of interest I took a photo and LCD screen, the lines are so bright you cant even make out what was originally on the screen

Last of all here is the setup I used, all it is is the lens blu-tacked to the front of the camera, not shown is a piece of post it note over the flash to give a less glared image

Edit: I have also used this setup to take photos of some of the fine parts in my watch when I did repairs, this can be found HERE

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Almost Gigapixel – Robertson’s Lookout

Hugoagogo — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:35:17 +0000

I took another mega panorama last weekend from Robertson's Lookout (Between Mt Keira and Mt Kembla) and spent the rest of the weekend trying to process it.

I am getting close to my goal of taking a gigapixel image, this time it was taken on a tripod with a more powerful lense. It was made from joining around 300 photos and I managed to avoid missing any bits out this time.

For this one I managed to use a latter version of photoshop at school to crop it a bit and remove most of the jagged edges.

Check it out HERE

Pointless to have a thumbnail of the whole thing, so here is a thumbnail at 1/4 zoom at the steel works

Slouching around taking a few hundred photos on the edge of a cliff

I hope you enjoy it, and find some interesting spots, I plan on making my own version of the zoomify viewer where you can mark locations, so it makes it a big game of i-spy.

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Arapilies 2010 Panoramas

Hugoagogo — Sun, 02 May 2010 05:09:23 +0000

A collection of panoramas from our easter trip to Mount Arapilies

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A view from the large belay shelf on the bard

A view of the camp site, just after ali barbers cave

A different than normal perspective, looking towards Arapilies from Miter rock

Bard buttress and Tiger wall

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High Res Photography

Hugoagogo — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:45:40 +0000

During the recent family trip to Mount Arapilies, Victoria, I took plenty of photos and I'll probably be putting more up on here later.

One of the more interesting things that I had a go at was creating a really, really high res image. The one below consists of over 200 photos and when joined results in a photo around 400 Megapixels.

The main problem after you have waited for your photos to be stitched is how to edit them. Standard image viewers refuse to open them, photoshop crashes. Eventually I found a viewer that splits the images up into thousands of tiles that makes it easy and fast to view. I am still looking for a way to edit the finished image though.

I was very annoyed when I got home to find that when taking the pictures I had missed a narrow strip across the image. I plan on having a another go of taking more photos like this closer to home and I have ideas for a simple robot to automate the taking of them.

You can explore it HERE

How many climbers can you find?

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Golden Light

Hugoagogo — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 07:59:18 +0000

I took these photos while waiting for dad to finish a nearby geocache (Go here if you don't know what geocacheing is), i had my camera on me from a party earlier in the day and thought the view along the road looked quite nice in the semi dark. Its a shame that there is so much noise around the lights but i only had my little compact camera.

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Jervis Bay

Hugoagogo — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 23:55:53 +0000

I took this picture when out on an early morning bike ride, it is 2 photos with different exposures overlayed on each other

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And this panorama after we built a giant sand pyramid, we calculated it and it turned out to be ~~10 tons~~ 7 tons (correction) of sand (4.05 cubic meters)

Not very happy with this one picure

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AJ2010 Panoramas

Hugoagogo — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:50:43 +0000

Recently went to the jamboree as a venturer, had an awesome time met some great people and took these panoramas at the opening ceremony

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Heron Island

Hugoagogo — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:54:59 +0000

Took these photos on our recent holiday to Heron Island, they turned out quite well, but then again Heron Island is a beautiful place and its prity hard to mess it up.

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A panorama made by joining 7 photos

I bought an underwater case for the trip, it was a DiCAPAC 410 and worked very well.

Overall a good holiday and we came out of it with some excellent photos.

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It’s a small world

Hugoagogo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:49:15 +0000

I spent another afternoon playing with photo shop and distort filters, i managed to come up with this. Since the source image i used wasn't a 360° panorama i needed to smooth over the join alot but i am quite happy with the result that i achieved.

Just for comparison here is the source image by jlfinn82

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IRT – Photographic Competition

Hugoagogo — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:56:00 +0000

This is my entry for the IRT Young @ Heart photography competition, i think i left it too late to enter it but it turned out OK

The rules said no photoshop but i might create anouther version not for the competion cleaning up the start of the hearts

Edit: i got a response back saying my photo wasnt too late

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Framed Arapiles

Hugoagogo — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:36:55 +0000

As a skill for duke of ed i decided to learn photoshop here is my first attempt

Orignial

1st Edit - Greyed outside frame, removed wires

2nd edit - Added clouds outside frame and removed small bushes

Let me know any recomendations or suggestions

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Arapiles Panorama

Hugoagogo — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:50:17 +0000

I did this ages ago and forgot to put it up so it has now been posted back in time. the image is a section of a 360° panorama, currently have it printed out going over almost 7 landscape A4 sheets of paper.

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