Digital picture frames

by **TracyB** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:02 pm

Tarafrost - I've seen photographers use those frames to market their photography biz, btw very nice gallery you have. Combined with those keychains - what a powerful marketing tool you have.

by **sparky** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 9:26 pm

I agree with you TracyB, great site Tarafrost.

by **Tarafrost** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:14 am

sparky & Tracy wrote:I agree with you TracyB, great site Tarafrost.

Thanks for the kudos! Sure wish I had more time to add to it.

by **TracyB** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 7:28 pm

Don't we all wish we had a little more time to devote to our passions. You're welcome on the kudos - well earned my friend.

by **Tarafrost** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:07 pm

BTW...I just posted some action motocross pics I took of my nephew and some friends this past summer and fall here:

http://tarafrost.com/galleries/Motocross.html

..for those that like bikes. ;-)

by **TracyB** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:45 pm

I bet they love those shots. Very nicely done. It looks like you used a fisheye post process on a couple of the air shots? Great effect. DH and I both ride street bikes. A local family built a track in their farm field for their son and friends along the hwy. We stopped to watch a number of times - just awesome stuff!

by **sparky** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:48 pm

OK Tracy, what is a 'fisheye post process"? :oops:

by **TracyB** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:50 pm

It's a lens effect that stretches the outter edges of the image. It gives an interesting perspective effect. That's the best I can explain it.

by **BarbaraC** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 5:55 am

Tracy, are you saying he manipulated the pics in Photoshop? Other than, no doubt, standard post-processing, I saw no evidence of fisheye, either legal or illegal.

Barbara

by **TracyB** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:04 am

Only TaraFrost can say for sure if there's a post process effect in there or not. It may well be just the angle and the panning. It looks to me like picture 11 and "Owen gets some serious air" might have a fisheye lens effect. Personally - I like to play around with filters and effects on certain photos.

I've totally hijacked this thread - sorry.

by **Tarafrost** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:50 am

TracyB wrote:Only TaraFrost can say for sure if there's a post process effect in there or not. It may well be just the angle and the panning. It looks to me like picture 11 and "Owen gets some serious air" might have a fisheye lens effect.

There was no post-processing added to these pics other than contrast/colour/sharpening adjustments (using my standard batch bulk workflow) and in some cases some cropping of the frame. No special fish-eye effects were done in Photoshop.

What you are seeing is the effect you get from using a 12-24mm ultra-wide zoom lens (which is what I used for those shots) at the widest setting (12mm), in conjunction with a perspective where I was below and to the side of the rider, between the hills of the double jump, shooting upwards. The slight "fish-eye" effect is solely due to the lens and zoom setting used.

It's a neat effect when shooting MX riders on jumps, since it gives the illusion that they are much higher than they really might be....though they definitely were flying pretty high at times! Makes it a bit easier to get the shots too, since the bikes are moving really fast, and at 5fps, it's tough to keep them in the frame as you pan from one side of the jump to the other....a wide lens gives you more latitude to keep the bike somewhere in the frame during the whole jump sequence. Even then, I was still having trouble whipping the camera along with the bike since I was standing pretty close and the angle of the arc you have to pan through is pretty long.

by **gpsmikey** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 6:12 am

For anyone interested, here is an interesting article on where
it looks like the Photo Frames are going (wifi, connect to your
network and access your Flickr account etc). I found the last
comment about the market future interesting.

http://www.embedded.com/products/hardwa ... stid=29035

mikey

by **BarbaraC** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:45 am

gpsmikey wrote:...here is an interesting article on where
it looks like the Photo Frames are going (wifi, connect to your
network and access your Flickr account etc).

Why, in the name of the Almighty Noodlehead, would I want to access Flickr or any other such thing?! If things continue like this, we'll all have to have cell phones and iPods implanted deep inside our brains. Then we'll plug ourselves in for upgrades.

Barbara

by **Tarafrost** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:51 am

BarbaraC wrote:Then we'll plug ourselves in for upgrades.

Bend over...time for your upgrade! ;-)

Oh...I forgot....Photodex already did that to us about a year ago., right Mikey?

by **gpsmikey** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:47 am

Yep - you got that right. For some odd reason, I haven't sent them any money
since then either. :evil:

mikey

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