This image probably doesn’t seem too remarkable, but it represents a first for me. It’s the first time I have done a photo in “bulb” mode. I was trying to get photos of the lightning storm that passed through last night. It was too far away, and none of the bolts looked good in the shots. So I went with my immediate surroundings. Sometimes a shoot doesn’t work out the way you wanted. You just need to roll with it and see if you can get something salvageable. In this case, I got practice, which is worth a lot to me… PP in Lightroom, of course.
On 09.11.08, In Photos, By Chester
On 09.08.08, In Photos, By Chester
Arrived in Phoenix yesterday morning and drove to Tucson to see a few things. This is the underside of the Kitt Peak Solar Telescope.
I am on a laptop with Lightroom 1.3 (might upgrade it to 1.41), and am not doing much work on the pictures while I am down here. I’ll still post pics this week, but there won’t be much in the way of post-processing. I also might do some Synth’s of my room and some other areas here at the Westin Kierland Resort in Scottsdale, AZ.
Microsoft Photosynth – What’s The Point?
I shot them in RAW, so I exported them from Lightroom 2 and then started the upload process. This is where my frustration started. It took over 4 hours to upload those pictures. Luckily I had other things to do, like go to the pool and then a dinner engagement, so I left to do that.
When I came back after dinner, the little green box said it was done, and that my photos were “58% synthy”. Whatever that means. I proceeded to load the synth, and was not pleased with the results. For whatever reason, I had expected this to work like other synths I had seen, that acted like a virtual walk-through. I took pictures of the room, the balcony, and the bathroom. I took “approach” photos that I thought my be what synth needed to construct the next scene in the walkthrough. It didn’t do any of this.
You are probably asking why I did all this, and expected a result other than what I achieved. Fair enough. It’s because the PDF instruction set didn’t have specific directions for how to do this. In the absence of those directions, I made an assumption. I wonder how many other people are experiencing this.
Oh well. I don’t really see an application for this anyway. You have to download software to even view these things. When you consider that Flash is on 99% of computers out there, it makes more sense to do virtual tour types of things in Flash than this thing. It’s a solution without a problem.
Apparently, someone I really respect agrees it isn’t ready for widespread usage.