Digital Panorama

There are a lot of awesome things you can do with photography. This really gained my interest. Have anyone knows "panorama"? Panorama is a very wide view or representation of a physical space in painting, in photography, and in everything else that makes art. If in the past days that this can only be done with painting just by sketching on a wide piece of canvas. But now, it can be done in photography. How? Alright! I will just tell what have I learned. But first, here's an example:

360 degree panorama picture of the center courtyard of the Sony Center at the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. This picture was calculated from 126 individual photos using autostitch.

The photo above is an example of a panoramic image. It has a very long way to create one. Ok! Here goes:

1. Equipment: Have a DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) camera that you depend most and you proud most because of your career. Let me explain about lenses: Those lenses having 8-24mm, those are wide lens. Those lenses having 24-70mm are medium. And, those lenses having 70-200mm or more are telephoto. Wide lens are pretty good for panoramic shots. Panoramic shots can be done in any lenses as long as you have instincts in photography. And also, have multimedia/high definition gaming class PC that runs stitching editing programs like Adobe Photoshop CC's Photomerge (explained later).
2. Adjustments: Aperture is very important to for making panoramic shots. f/16 is mostly used for panoramic shots because it is truly the middle of the two limits of aperture. If anything is set lower than f/16 (like f/22) causes chromatic aberation and simply called vignette.So set the most middle aperture as most middle as possible. The equity is in there. In your DSLRs, set the mode into "Av", that's Aperture priority. Consecutive shots must be done in manual mode "M" because staying in "Av" might alter exposures.
3. Techniques: Did you know that the images must be stitched afterwards? Well, editing is required. When you are about to take another shot in another angle. Leave a space similar to the right end of the first one and the left end of the second one. Overlap by 20-50%.
4. Formats: The image must be large JPEGs or RAWs.
5. Lost?: If you don't know where your shots begun or ended, take a shot as a marker.
6. Editing: Use stitching software like Photoshop's Photomerge, Hugin, and Autopanogiga.

Stop Motion

Do you even watch movies and observe the flow's motions? I'm both analytic and creative person so I do observe motions while watching movies like how much the frames are shown in every second. Let's talk about Stop Motion. What is stop motion anyway? Stop motion is a kind of movies that animates objects that really do move when watched. Stop motion is a form of animation. Stop motion is a traditional animation from my point of view. Here is a sample of stop motion:

That's my video that conceptualizes stop motion. I just drew a lot of sketches on a bunch of pieces of paper and capture them one by one. Now, how to make stop motions anyway? Every frames are made of pictures. Some video editing to make a single picture move in seconds. In video editing, you also need to make a picture move with a certain less than 1 or 0.75 seconds per picture. If you are using a camera, the camera must be still and untouched its position (if you want to have one angle). Having tripods is best for making still images (and videos). And you just need to place and move some objects used for stop motion. Anything is appreciated for making one. Clay (playing dough) is the best one for making stop motions. One thing that mostly costly making stop motions is time management. It takes a lot of time to achieve one. And, you really do a lot of hardwork.

Wallace and Gromit

One example of a stop motion/clay animation done is the Wallace and Gromit series created aand produced by Nick Park of Aardman Animations. It is the best one I've seen so far. Thus, it is really amazing. Living figures are in clay (like what have I said earlier that clay is the best for making stop motions).

Chicken Run

Another example is Chicken Run also done by same creators and producers of Wallace and Gromit. You might find out that it is not stop motion and clay animation. It is really made with stop motion but the flow is smooth. About the clay usage, it is very clean when built. Mindblowing, isn't it? People are just glad that there are still people doing amazing things such like these.

Stop motion is one of the animation styles you can do rather than using some 2D and 3D digital animation programs. This one is most likely a traditional animation and a longer time to take. Doing the good work is appreciated. The world was once empty and filling some amazing things.

[Basic Photography] Food Fun

Taking pictures of nice food is fine as long as it has beauty on it. That's creativity one of these days: with beauty. Really! It is ever since the world is created... HAHA! Enough for wisdom and shit stuff. Here are my five shots. Enjoy! (caption format: [flash settings] - [shutter speed] - [aperture] - [ISO] - [white balance])

No Flash - 1/125 sec - f/8 - ISO 800 - Auto White Balance

No Flash - 1/125 sec - f/8 - ISO 800 - Auto White Balance

No Flash - 1/125 sec - f/8 - ISO 800 - Auto White Balance

No Flash - 1/125 sec - f/5.6 - ISO 3200 - Auto White Balance

No Flash - 1/125 sec - f/8 - ISO 800 - Auto White Balance