stitched panoramics Some Suspect Teriyaki Prawns at a Japanese Restaurant the Night Before Made Sure I was Up Early...in fact, all night...

I'd like to send you my films and slides just to see how would they look when scanned by your scanner. another remark: i don't like this font, why did you change it.

 

giacomo

Tony, you are quite a guy

I see what You mean, Anna, about the upper right triangle, but as it is the other part of the balcony structure at left I kept it at all costs. Hey! This is Grunge Photography! "Note the contrast between the splendour of nature's ocean shores and the sadness of the built environment"...something like that. And as for the sun.... it appears exactly as my tortured eyes perceived it. Just lucky the pic was taken with a toy plastic camera that every time you look at the winder threatens to sue you if you say the word "fun" in a non-Kodak-approved context (even the springs are plastic, even the film was plastic... can you imagine that, Anna? It uses film? And a lens? There's a shutter?) from off of the balcony of a seedy hotel in a glitzy condo paradise after being sick all night... it doesn't get any grottier than that. Chromatic-abberations-R-us.

 

I'd better make a few admissions. You're right, I have done better, Anna, but we grunge photographers have to get our kicks whenever we can. The cheaper the pic the more we revel in it.

 

Secondly, I gave the hotel an undeserved bad rap...psssst, don't tell anyone but the hotel was actually lovely. Well appointed, clean and with two sachets of coffee and those little milk thingmies in the courtesy basket, plus a TV that worked (I use the word "worked" here in a technical sense, not an intellectual one, although I was disappointed that it wasn't fuzzy and black&white). And that view! My troubles were internal, not external. It's the only thing that spoils this picture: the hotel was nice.

 

et tu Douglas. Giacomo, someone told me my titling was too ponderous, so I tried to lighten it up a little with a cheeky font. Maybe it's not the font?

How could I comment one of your photo again?.........You are too funny , Tony .......I give up:-)) Anna

it was nicely framed by the 4 corner, And give much perspective to the picture, I guess.

I wouldn't frame this shot, Tony, but I'm on my way to frame your comment !! :-)

The light on the sea is astonishing, but roads and parking lots etc are not exactly what I'd like to wake up seeing...:-)

Typo ? Sure, I'm with Giacomo on this...

All this being said, and since you are in Australia and not too far from Bali, if you ever want to really fall in love in the morning as the sun raises, try Penelokan, on the Batur lake. In 97, there was only one hotel at the edge of the volcano's crater, and there's a lake in this crater in case you wouldn't have heard of it... Oh, my ! Never seen such a beautiful scenary in my life... When I was there, I had no ultra-wide angle with me, but that's really the place for panoramic photography...

The widest lens I had that day was a 35mm Mamiya, and I had lost all my ND filters the day before ! :-) So, I came back with crap... but some day, someone has to do justice to this place... I haven't yet seen any shot that would show the beauty of this lake at sunrise... Next holidays, forget about roads and parking lots, and try it. Penelokan by Tony Dummett, that should really be something ! Cheers.

Another great panoramic photo I don't mind the sun infact I put it right in the middle of some of my pans nice lens flare too.

What a Fun (TM it seems) photo. I imagine it would have been better earlier in the morning, if you werent retching your guts out at that time. Don't think I would have thought to use one of those disposable cameras for creating a panoramic photograph like this one; so, you get another extra originality point or two. Good work even if it's not up to par with the rest of your stuff.

I'd love to know what software you used to get this stitched so seamlessly. I have had an attempt at doing this and was not that happy with the results...