11-14-12 – A Stitch in Time 2

It’s funny; I ‘stitched’ it together back when I was unemployed. Now, we’re going in to forced rotating time off (one week a month), but it won’t start till after this contest!! lolz.

Panoramas certainly fit the bill, mopsy but using software like Microsoft’s ICE, they don’t have to be just ‘linear’ (i.e., stitched horizontally or vertically only); a stitch with lots of frames of a scene, even from differing angles, will work just as well. I’ll see what I can ‘throw’ together and post as an example….

//(I haven’t even shot for this, other than the one I did that gave me the thought to resuggest the theme)

Mopsy (and anyone else), here are some examples of ‘non-traditional’ stitches. FYI, I didn’t do anything with the images in the way of post-processing; they’re SOOC; I’ll probably do more with one’s I’ll use in the contest. Most photoshop programs should let you do this, but I like Microsoft’s ICE because it’s free, it works well, and by changing the ‘type’ of motion I can create different effects when it blends the images; plus, it’s drag-and-drop. It’s available here for either 32-bit or 64-bit (better) systems (and I recommend this link as it’s from Microsoft’s site itself, though it’s linked elsewhere you won’t get a buttload of additional crap from Microsoft): http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/

One nifty thing; by taking images at shallow DOF then stitching, you get some interesting focal effects, like the foreground and background chairs in focus, but some middle ones out of focus (kinda tilt-shifty):

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/nov/07/mix256_stitch.jpg

Here’s a guy sitting at the bar. He moved some as I took the images, so his arms are…just weird…but then that’s the fun!

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/nov/07/mix173_stitch.jpg

And of course if you have people in the shots, you can move them around and compile the images:

http://fossilspringsaz.com/pics/2012/nov/07/mix357_stitch.jpg

None of these are ‘perfect’ and I doubt I’ll be using them, and doing some post processing to the images (which I would do to one then copy-apply to all the others) would probably help some.

I know the last time this one done some farktographers did some neat things so you might look at what’s still posted via Bibliostats.

If anyone else has some neat programs or techniques, feel free to share.

//sorry it took so long to post; went out late last night to the bar to get these and drank Merlot because it was too cold for beer. Wine just knocks me out. It was good, though!

ravnostic – Jul 17, 2011 – 07:15 PM
Post subject: RE: A Stitch in Time: Stitching II
The original had the difficulty of sticking to the regular fark rules as much as possible; on that basis, I’d say ‘no’ to stacking, other than the obvious necessity to overlap.

Shouldn’t this be contest #3 of this series?

ravnostic – Jul 17, 2011 – 07:15 PM
Post subject: RE: A Stitch in Time: Stitching II
The original had the difficulty of sticking to the regular fark rules as much as possible; on that basis, I’d say ‘no’ to stacking, other than the obvious necessity to overlap.

Shouldn’t this be contest #3 of this series?

Stitching is what I meant, not stacking (the astro-vocabulary kicked in on me). Good catch; I’ll edit that.

Having fun is always a ‘win’. And no, they do not have to stitch perfectly.

Stitching can be linear like yours, Pope, or less so (frames all over the place; up, down, taken at different angles; ICE is usually very good at putting them together properly!!)

Nice stitch, btw. I love urban art.