Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Lily Allen is a Tweet girl



Lily Allen has mentioned the website on her twitter page. Thank you Ms Allen! I would also like to welcome the many new friends who have signed up today.

If you would like a Lily Allen Action Set, they have sold out for the moment. If you would like to be put on a 'first come, first served' waiting list, simply send me an email to john@friendsofcelebrities.com with the subject as 'Lily Rocks!'

Earth Hour 2010_click image to see it fade!

Thanks The Big Picture keep post so many amazing pictures over the work and events to remember and learn to see....


very good reference to see the light in city....

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

小米記趣~『新光三越A8館』

這幾天阿母聽朋友說三越A8館有一個戶外空間適合小朋友去晃晃,就趁天好心情佳的日子去那邊初體驗,的確是不賴,但是如果裡面所有的遊樂設施都坐一遍的話,阿母的荷包恐怕是會大失血,因此就每一款給他站上去拍拍照當做是走過的痕跡,等他在大一點的時候,好讓阿母可以當小米的面拿出來跟他說嘴說:他很幸福,因為每一款都坐過!哈~

這一張有否一副很搖擺的欠扁樣!
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騎著小蜜蜂到處飛的囉~
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阿姆:陳小米
陳小米:舉手答有
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搭軍機,很威風的勒~
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小米記趣~『忙阿!』

忙著換帽子趕場的模樣,背後服侍他的保母除了要手上要抓著他的雞絲,又要扶著他,且還得要上下都是條紋的衣著來當背景凸顯他!

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Friday, March 26, 2010

LEGO: New Pics of Old Favourites








Here are the old Lego sets re-shot for Ebay. I'll be making some new Celebrity Lego sets very soon. I'll try and make them not as nasty as some of these. Although, these ones are pretty funny! Enjoy.

Adobe CS5 is coming.....


San Jose (U.S.A. - California)Monday, 12 April 2010, 08:00:00
Taipei (Taiwan)Monday, 12 April 2010, 23:00:00

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

pftrack geometry FOV vs. Focal length


FOV8 ==> 100mm focal length
FOV10 ==> 85mm focal length
FOV17 ==> 50mm focal length
FOV24 ==> 35mm focal length
FOV33 ==> 25mm focal length
Field Of View (measured in
degrees)
Red One Camera film back info!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Quantum Film? whoa?

Here is an article from EETimes.com


Quantum film threatens to replace CMOS image chips

PORTLAND, Ore. — Just as photographic film was mostly replaced by silicon image chips, now quantum film threats to replace the conventional CMOS image sensors in digital cameras. Made from materials similar to conventional film—a polymer with embedded particles—instead of silver grains like photographic film the embedded particles are quantum dots. Quantum films can image scenes with more pixel resolution, according to their inventors, InVisage Inc., offering four-times better sensitivity for ultra-high resolution sensors that are cheaper to manufacture.


to read the rest of the article go here!

HDR Aquisition - Pano Head Setup

Before we begin.  Sorry this post has taken so long to finish.  Life gets in the way!  Enjoy!

Part of the art and science of taking good panoramic imagery is stitching together multiple images with as little parallax shift as possible.  This means you need to align the nodal point/entrance pupil around the center of your rotation axis of the panoramic head.

Most everyone I know refers to this "no-parallax" point of the lens as the "nodal point" but while writing this entry I have found that this is actually called the Entrance Pupil.   Here's a little bit of a cut and paste from that wikipedia entry.
The geometric location of the entrance pupil is the vertex of the camera's angle of view[1] and consequently its center of perspective, perspective point, view point, projection centre[2] or no-parallax point[3]. When the optical system is physically rotated about its entrance pupil, the perspective geometry of its image does not change. In panoramic photography, for example, it is important to rotate or pivot the camera about its entrance pupil in order to avoid parallax errors in the final, stitched panorama[4][5]. Depending on the lens design, the entrance pupil location on the optical axis may be behind, within or in front of the lens system; and even at infinite distance from the lens in the case of telecentric systems.
Ok now you know what then entrance pupil is what next.  Lets calibrate our Nodal Ninja.  The Nodal Ninja like most panoramic rigs operate in a similar manner.  You have to align your camera in 2 different axis in order to have your camera in the proper position on the pano head.
A. Align the center of your lens with the center rotation axis of your panoramic head.


We'll call this adjustment the left-right adjustment.  First mount the camera on the Horizontal arm.  Rotate the horizontal arm until the camera is pointed directly down at the center rotational point of the pano head.  Now adjust the "left-right" of the vertical arm until the lens is directly over the center rotational point.  It is sometimes easier to put a longer lens on the camera so you can see the center of the rig a big better.  Once you have this properly adjusted for your camera this setting will never change no matter what lens you have on the camera.

If this isn't correctly aligned you will get a broken image at the nadir point of a stitched panoramic.


John Houghton explains this very well.
An indication that the lateral position is not quite right is a broken, sawtooth edge to the head at the nadir in a stitched panorama (an unpatched nadir, of course).  The example on the right is a typical example:
The top of the head looks somewhat like a circular saw. In this case, the "teeth" are set for cutting with a clockwise rotation of the saw.  This indicates that the entrance pupil is offset to the left of the pano head axis, as viewed from the back of the camera, so the camera needs to be shifted a little to the right. If the saw is set for cutting with a counter-clockwise rotation, then the camera needs to be shifted to the left. (image to the right is from John's site) 



B. Align the entrance pupil of your lens with the center rotation axis of your panoramic head.
Next we will align the front back position of the camera on the horizontal arm.  A simple way to do this is to line up two vertical items.  Place one close to camera and the second item further way.  From a center framed position these two items should appear to be stacked on top of each other.  Rotate the camera to the left and right about 20-30 degrees.  When rotated the two items will be in exactly the same position if the camera is aligned.  If the two items do not appear to be "stacked" on top of each other, then simply adjust the forward or back position camera until the items are aligned.


Fisheye Considerations
John Houghton also notes that you need to be aware the entrance pupil for a fisheye is not centered on a single point.  Basically he says that you want to adjust your entrance pupil to correspond with the angle your stitch.  He also notes that this will compromise the accuracy of your zenith and nadir points, but stitching software is usually good enough to fix it.  Check out his site for the full explanation.

Now your probably wondering why bother with both axis when shooting with a fisheye?  You could easily use a simpler rig like the Nodal Ninja 180.  With the NN180 you only align the entrance pupil on one axis and not two.  Wouldn't this be easier on set?

This is true.  But using a panoramic head designed specifically a fisheye limits you to just using a fisheye.  The NN5 allows you do use any lens.  And depending on the lens used you get a significantly higher resolution final panoramic than one created using a fisheye lens.  If you need to capture a high resolution sky or cityscape your in trouble if you only have a fisheye rig.  End of the day if you have the extra coin to buy multiple rigs... go for it!  They happily sell you more than one, but for me one rig that can do both is a bit more cost effective.

Taking your time at this step will result in panoramas that take minutes to stitch together.  And the team back at the office will love you for it!  In fact they may pick you up on their shoulders and parade you around the office, like the hero that you are!

Next time, lets shoot some pictures!

Here is a quick resource list that I came across in my research for this entry.  These guys have put together some very good sites which inspired me while writing this blog entry.

Michel Toby's website
johnpanos.com - Finding the No-Parallax Point
The Nodal Point (This has a very cool laser plotted graph of a sigma 8mm lens's entrance pupil)
Nodal Ninja website
Digital Grin (nodal point tutorial)
The Really Right Stuff
Big Ben's Panoramic Tutorials 
vrphotography.com
The "Grid" tutorial

Friday, March 19, 2010

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Friday, March 12, 2010

How Tall Is Selena Gomez?

I'm sure many of you are wondering how tall the beautiful and talented Selena Gomez is, right? Me too!

Selena Gomez is 5 feet 5 inches tall. However i think she is still growing, so maybe 5 feet 6 by now.

A very nice height if you ask me.

Monday, March 8, 2010

7D BNC-R,PL mount and Stereo rig from Syndicate



Pretty Interesting stuff!  Looks like it was a one of a kind.... read more and find out

http://www.syndicate.se/Default.aspx?Id=294

Happy Birthday to Remy!

TO小米,
這三百多張照片記錄著你這三百六十五天的日記。無法形容這一年我們一家三口"充實"的生活感受,但阿爸阿母要謝謝你讓我們學習到生命的完整是多麼的偉大與不易。

祝 親愛的女兒~
週歲生日快樂!

愛你的阿爸阿母
March/9/2010

for higher resolution: http://www.dvjimmy.com/Remy/RemyBD_Width-2000.jpg (高解析度請點選此連結)

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Zoe阿姨與Flora阿姨送給小米的生日禮物!謝謝你們啦~
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謝謝Audrey阿姨送的禮物,因為收到時間不同日,所以就各別拍的囉!
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Audrey阿姨送的禮物→加拿大手工製作,很精緻!
Bugalug的髮夾是在加拿大一個一個地手工製造的。
http://www.babyim.com.tw/brand/bugalug.html
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Audrey阿姨送的乖寶寶貼紙(上面的logo是Audrey阿姨自己設計的唷),雖被小米蹂躪的不平整-_-|,但設計的很棒。
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小米很好奇的指著剛點燃閃亮亮的蠟燭。
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唱生日快樂歌。(但壽星莫名的結屎臉,難道是奴婢們服侍的不好嘛!阿~還是阿爸阿母歌聲太難聽了)
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大快朵頤乳酪起司蛋糕!偶一為之嘛~生日咩~加上偶又是壽星。
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意猶未盡!指著蛋糕,還要還要~
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Saturday, March 6, 2010

小米記趣~『來去碧潭遊玩去』

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因為想帶小米過碧潭橋,所以阿爸得連人(10kg)加推車(7kg)一起抬起來往上爬好幾階的樓梯!爬的過程中,時不時聽到小米開心的笑聲以及阿爸喘噓噓的呼吸聲,此起彼落,好不熱鬧!
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阿爸慘白的雙唇vs小米笑開懷的表情
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小米記趣~『自己吃飯之小米把阿爸搞瘋』

繼《小米記趣~『自我意識逐漸高漲!』 》後,小米一路走來就是個莫名的堅持,所以到目前吃飯都吃的非常不好,這一回除了吃不好以外,連最慘的場景記錄都被日後的某一天的某一餐給取代了。

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已經弄成這樣的慘景,還不可取的將雙手把剩餘的飯粒互相戳揉來增加戰況的激烈程度!真不可取~
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聽阿爸說,那時小米鼻孔裡面也都有馬鈴薯呢了!
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小米記趣~『阿爸在做手工黏合小米撕破的書』

小米這階段因為對於力道的掌握還沒有概念,所以常常會用直接的邏輯跟蠻力來做很多事情,翻書也不例外,所以陸續有書本被他撕破,這一本是最慘的一本,讓阿爸得要趁晚上小米睡覺後,分兩晚好好的修復一番。

辛苦沒有被支薪的阿爸
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小米記趣~『對面鄰居鄰長伯送給小米的花燈』

那天鄰長伯在電梯裡問媽媽是否要花燈,開玩笑~這一聽之下就是有好康的暗示,媽媽我這家庭主婦一定點頭如搗蒜的應聲說要~要~要~果然,晚上吃飯的時候,門鈴響了,耶~是一張平面需要自己DIY組合的花燈,且揪甘心的是裡面已經附上了三顆扭扣電池跟一個會變化好多顏色的LED燈泡,陳小米當下快速飛爬過去(因為他還不會走路更別說小碎步奔跑了),硬是要用他粗魯的方式拆開,阿爸見狀,就先暫時停止手上的碗筷,組裝好的囉~
之後聽鄰長伯說花燈是去市政府排隊領的,真是不好意思勒!~

組裝好的樣貌!
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把玩
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認真的把玩
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認真的把玩過後就被丟棄的可憐花燈!
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為了讓小米過第一個元宵節,北目還真的趕流行的帶她去看市政府前的花燈,媽呀~還真是人山人海呢!(圖裡媽媽身後的那位大哥表情還真是怪)
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