Big Sumo

My most viewed…

bigsumo — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:54:02 +0000

My most viewed photos from Flickr. I loves some of these the best as well…

The Day the Earth Stood Still

bigsumo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:10:31 +0000

One of my favourite movies of all time The Day the Earth Stood Stiil is being remade. I am looking forward to it as I loved the old classic. See below for the original trailer…

The new trailer certainly is promising alot. I hope it is as good.

Wow!

bigsumo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:40:20 +0000

Can’t say much more than “I want a system like this…”

g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo.

Ju ju nuts….

bigsumo — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 05:18:37 +0000

Annabelle and her delicious ju ju nuts (aka palm tree nuts). She just can’t keep away from them!

Where is it?

bigsumo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:52:12 +0000

Originally uploaded by randhirsingh

Now this is what I am talking about. I just love HDR images. They can be so surreal. The light and the dark together just makes for such a nice shot.

Well done randhirsingh!

See more HDR photography in one of my last posts…

ICE

bigsumo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:45:55 +0000

Have to say I have been having some great time playing with ICE. No not the water type, though I do enjoy a cube or two in the old scotch and dry.

I am talking about ICE. Direct from the site:

Image Composite Editor

What is Image Composite Editor?

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution. The stitched panorama can be saved in a wide variety of formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to multi-resolution tiled formats like HD View and Silverlight Deep Zoom.

Features

State-of-the-art stitching algorithms automaticaly place source images and determine panorama type

Advanced orientation adjustment view allows planar, cylindrical, and spherical projections

Support for different types of camera motion

Excellent exposure blending using Microsoft Research fast Poisson algorithm

Automatic cropping to maximum image area

No image size limitation – stitch gigapixel panoramas

Native support for 64-bit operating systems such as 64-bit Vista

Output in a wide variety of image formats:

HD View

Silverlight Deep Zoom

TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and more

Support

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is provided free of charge and without official support. However, if you have questions or issues with Image Composite Editor, you may find help at the Image Composite Editor Forum which is monitored by the developers and provides community-based support.

It is free and is great at stitching together images to make panoramics. Here are some of the ones I did. I think they are awesome!

and probably my favourite…

Which do you like best??

Big Sumo DNA

bigsumo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:33:16 +0000

Sacry to think that you can easily see someone’s DNA. But here it is…

HDR Photos…. I know I’ll be hooked!

bigsumo — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:27:33 +0000

I have just tried my first attempt at HDR photography. I have never really done this before as you need to be able to do exposure bracketing on shots. This is just too hard with the little point and shoot that I own.

Now that work has a better camera I am trying it out and eeing what I will get when the $$$ become available.

Have a squiz at the first few attempts:

I am quite taken with these but think that I’ll need to really study the techniques somewhat more before I can really do some shots that mirro what i can see here…

HDR
http://www.flickr.com/groups/hdr/

Mexican wave video

bigsumo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:19:51 +0000

Mexican wave video

Originally uploaded by emmaheff

Now that has to be one of the simplest ways to get a panographic image! Well done Emma!

Stubbs

bigsumo — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:16:56 +0000

Have to say right from the get go.

I don’t like cats!

I am allergic to them. I do not have any fun whilst they are around but I have to say that I don’t actually mind these shots of ‘Stubbs’. It has to be one of the clearest animal shots I have ever done. For a point and click camera (Canon Ixus 60) this shots just works. It certainly gets the feel for the critter.

Other Stubbs shots can be seen here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/bigsumo/sets/72157607955137431/