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No, unmanipulated and uncropped. Agfa Scala is a black & white slide film, the only one in fact.

This gentleman was carrying two falcons or kestrels, I don't remember

exactly. The little fellas were very enthusiastic subjects...

The YMCA sign probably spoils the composition, but the gentleman on

the balcony was obviously delighted to enjoy one of the few warm

summer days in San Francisco.

Yes, I live in downtown San Francisco. and my neighborhood is actually visible on the 6x17 slide.

A somewhat Cubist composition...

This abstract sculpture in front of the former Bank of America headquarters has been nicknamed "the banker's heart" by locals: cold, hard and black...

Well, this was really a snapshot (I had a roll of film to finish on my way to the darkroom), but I thought it might be amusing given how some Photo.netters obsess about lens sharpness.

 

And I certainly did not want to be arrested for vandalizing my own neighborhood...

Seems more like "Spirit of Dennis the Menace" to me...

 

A green cast can be the result of the camera mis-guessing the white balance, specially in fluorescent light, or the result of color correcting on a poorly calibrated monitor. I usually look for color casts in the white of the eyes, and on my calibrated monitor, the eyes or the catchlight seem too blueish-green. Doug's swatch of the highlights in the hair do seem a little greenish to me, but it is also a perfectly natural, if uncommon, hair color.

Yes, ImageAssembler did a pretty good job considering the individual exposures were all hand-held. The software allows you to specify two control points on each side of each frame, and can thus compensate for parallax. Much better than the automated stitching in Photovista.

When I first saw the thumbnail, it looked like a buddhist priest meditating in front of statues in a temple. Very striking.

The anamorphic distortion comes from the fact this is a 360° cylindrical panorama, i.e. if you printed it and taped the left and right edges together, you would have the full scene. Unrolling the cylinder introduces the distortion. Photo.net does not allow for embedding immersive panoramas with a viewer, unfortunately, but you can see a low-res rendition of it here.

Those were handheld shots. I was a tourist then, but now that I have moved to San Francisco, I mean to go back there and retake them. The only difficulty is that area is very windy (I once tried with a small Manfrotto tripod and a Canon S100, the wind almost blew them away).

The Grachtenfestivalis a yearly concert held in August in Amsterdam. I believe this wasthe second installment. The canal was jam-packed with boats around thepodium used for the concert.

This image is actually a panorama stitched from two handheldexposures with MGI Photovista 1.3.2. I had originally used version1.2, but it exhibited a number of stitching ghosts due to parallaxerrors.

The nice thing about snails, it's almost a still life :-)

Q: Why is the best view of Paris from the Eiffel Tower?

A: Because you can't see it from there...