Meanwhile back to the theme.... Here's an image that combines accidental fisheye distortion with two digital techniques unavailable to me "back in that day": HDR and Panoramic Stitching....about 9 photos went into this one, as I recall. And yes, there ARE vegetables growing in this place even in the winter...which is sort of like my Rouen Cathedral (see link below) The Fisheye effect came via the one of the Photoshop stitching algorithms and HDR due to Photomatix...which Mikell had introduced me too (BTW To Mikell Back at you with being a fan..you are right but real cold does make it drop its leaves and a hard winter will do in the Golden and Variegated Varieties even while leaving Common Sage to come back in the spring) Looking at the times, I probably spent about 5 hours creating this some two years after the shoot.
- Lamberton in the winter following its Restored Dome.
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** Back in the day, (early 1980s), my first job after college, I worked in a local software company that sold as a service, access to its flagship product - one of the finest lens design software in the world available at that time. I often had to bounce computer jobs across the planet to places like Israel or Hong Kong with each job submitting another via a hodge-podge Cyber Supercomputer Network that was still farther reaching than the pre-Internet Arpanet. Our software was very cool, I received catalogs and direct letters from most of the manufacturers of Optical Glass with complete data and loaded (retyped) each of their products basic characteristics into a table for use by the world wide community of lens designers...some of them doing work free lance work for the great SLR camera and other optics companies. I also converted a thin films coating design software package from one of those supercomputers to run a Pre-PC Personal Computer based on the VT100 terminal with a CPU board and disk drive added. Wild geeky optics stuff...this included programming to drive plotters for lens diagrams and ray tracing through intensive combos of glasses (elements ) and then to support designers of the best coatings (thin films) on these same creations. Stuff I helped maintain way back in those days...By that time I had already given up on a three different careers that I had tried. The scientific and engineering programming geek career has lasted now, though, for 33 years...22 on my own.
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