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Lisbon Bombing

Madail — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 09:41:06 +0000

Hopefully this day wont ever come!

Project made for CgSociety’s Allan Mckay Holywood VFX workshop. For the Backplate photo i used a digital panorama i had taken before, check it out here.

It’s meant to be an exercise, not a 100% finished and revised work. There are a few changes i could make and revise, but i dont have time right now. The time involved was approximately two weeks

Enjoy Lisbon get bombed to hell (it’s actually Almada, but it sounds cooler hehe)

Video:

http://www.vimeo.com/12713479

Credits (myself otherwise said):

Backplate photography and panorama stitching;
3D Modeling / Shading / Lighting and Rendering;
Particle Systems procedural setup and animation (tnx Allan!);
Smoke / Fire / Trails shading and rendering;
Compositing and Fx;

Audio: Internet free resources

Software Used: 3dsmax, Afterburn, FumeFx/ After Effects

Other Stuff:

Particles Pass:
http://www.vimeo.com/12569717

Santa Cruz – Formosa Beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:18:29 +0000

Another panorama taken in the same place as many in this photoblog – Santa Cruz. This one was very hard to do, because of the hard changes in exposure, so trying to maintain a balance between dark and bright areas was critical. Hopefully i will have a better camera in time, with higher specifications to allow me to produce better shots.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 00:29:47
Width: 1704 pixels
Height: 2272 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 5.859375 mm

Catarina by the sea of Santa Cruz

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:05:44 +0000

We spent a very nice day in Santa Cruz, a small seaside village, near Óbidos. It’s a beautiful place. This panorama was taken with several photos that i merged together. The most difficult part is to be able to keep the details of moving objects, such as the waves, without the mixing being to noticeable. I like the duality on cool, non saturated look in the water against the two colored parts, the rock and my wife. The compostition really helps our eyes to get caught in the immense rock, and then drift away to check all little details, like the water splashes, the waves, etc.

Exif Information:

Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 24 mm

Santa Cruz Tip

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:15:24 +0000

I’ve climbed to the very tip of the rocks in Santa Cruz beach so i could take a 360º horizontal panorama. I love the colors in this one, the lighting is great, and i just did a simple contrast correction in post, and there you have it.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 12:48:00
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/3.2
Lens: 6 mm

Santa Cruz Beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:02:21 +0000

Again, Santa Cruz beach at its best. We can see a vast view in this panorama, from Santa Cruz village itself in the right, the big rock, and all the way to the fishing spot at the rocks in the right. People have built some stairs and railways in the rock formations, and when the tide is up, you cant come down to the sand. I’ve taken multiple shots with my camera in a tripod stand, then merged all photos with Autodesk Stitcher and some fine tuning and color correcting in Photoshop.

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 12:50:00
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: Dimage Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/4.5
Lens: 6 mm

Santa Cruz beach

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:57:58 +0000

Another panorama taken with multiple photos and merged together later. This time took in a beach in Santa Cruz. It’s a great place for surfers, fishermen and travelers looking for nice photos. It depicts a local man fishing near one huge rock, an icon from these place. Fortunately, the beach was uncrowded, which makes it a whole lot nicer to enjoy the landscape.

Exif Information:

Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/160 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 6 mm

Santa Cruz – Dusk

Madail — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:32:37 +0000

ther Panorama from Santa Cruz beach, this time at dusk. Lighting in this place is often rather nice, with this kind of contrasty skies. The sea winds blows the clouds into land in the sunset, and its easy to get great looking skies. Some seagulls fly in the rocks in the left, and that’s a warning for bad weather aproaching…

More Photos:

Color Tests, produced in Photoshop -

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2004:03:01 01:02:38
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1704 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/1000 sec
Fstop: f/8
Lens: 5.9 mm

Catarina in Ponta dos Corvos

Madail — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:06:16 +0000

This time we went to a close city in the south of Lisbon, called Seixal. Amongst other interesting features, it has a very nice spot, in a extense and thin stretch of land, filled with marshes and water mills. It was there, in Ponta dos Corvos (Raven’s End sounds a nice translation), where in the low tide we can get by foot to some large sandbanks. This is part of a larger panorama, again with my favorite shooting subject, my wife.

Panorama of Almada

Madail — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:06:15 +0000

Panorama of Almada, city located in the south side of Lisbon. This isn’t a typical view, i’m sure many will even ask where is this from. That’s exactly why i took it. I’ve taken several photographs with a tripod, and then merged them together using Autodesk Stitcher Software. I’ve also applied some color correction in Photoshop to enhance the look i was after.

Abandoned Sofa

Madail — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:18:28 +0000

Taken in an abandoned water mill, the remains of some weird furniture set, a sofa, standing in the middle of nowhere… I wouldn’t put a single finger in it, and i pity whoever used it for what reason. Nevertheless, who knows, maybe this lonely couch was the only company to someone even lonelier…

I’ve taken 3 photos which i merged together as a panorama. Then i used Photoshop to change a lot the colors, lighting, mood and focus points to give it a touch of enlightenment vs darkness feeling, with the sofa acting as a hero in this mix. Below you can see the original stitched panorama before any editing.

More images:

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2009:10:21 19:32:05
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1704 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Time: 1/15 sec
Fstop: f/5.6
Lens: 13.89 mm