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Ocean Water Test

Madail — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:05:51 +0000

All done with After Effects with Psunami plugin (thanks Guilherme) Shine, Particular and some more magic.

Rough test for look and concept for an underwater ocean look, future to be developed in 3D.

I will update this with more stuff.

Video:

http://www.vimeo.com/13294941

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

Catarina in Ponta dos Corvos

Madail — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:06:16 +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 22:06:15 +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.

Sunset Panorama in Fonte da Telha

Madail — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:10:18 +0000

This is a 180º horizontal panorama, taken in Fonte da Telha, an awesome beach near Lisbon. In the far left side of the image is ”Cabo Espichel” and you can see the typical clouds above Sintra in the right side. I’ve placed the tripod in the edge of the cliffs and taken several shots which i then merged and stitched together to create this unique panorama shot. As i don’t own a panorama lens or camera, using this technique is a great way of making panoramas. The trickiest part in this is to get the lighting and exposure correct for all photos – you have to use manual mode and know about photography! – and make sure that alignment is perfect.
Needless to say, you also need a good dose of post-production skills and patience in order to correct imperfections. In this particular case, making sure the shore line is seamless makes all the difference.

This is also great to use in a CGI environment, with it i can have a background for my scene, a reflection layer for shiny objects, and if i had this in HDR format, i would also be able to use it as a ultra realistic light source.. So let’s put some 3D spaceship (cliché! ) and render!…maybe i’ll post a tutorial on that.

More Photos:

Exif Information:

Date Taken: 2009:09:20 19:06:01
Width: 2272 pixels
Height: 1704 pixels
Equipment Make: Konica Minolta
Camera Model: DiMAGE Z3
ISO Speed: 50
Exposure Time: 1/640 sec
Fstop: f/2.8
Lens: 5.86 mm

Rage at the cliffs

Madail — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:03:51 +0000

One weekend, we went on a family walk to ”Praia da Ursa” (Bear’s beach), near Sintra. It’s tough to go there, as its a huge descent till the beach, and sometimes when the tide is up you can’t even get there, cause there’s no sand… but the main issue is getting back, and climb all the way up again…ufff it’s so tiring.. Anyway, this was the perfect spot to test some of my camera’s shutter speed as well as my abilities, so the wave’s crashing into the rocks suited the job perfectly. This was my favorite shot of the lot.

Water FlowFluxo de Água

Madail — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:03:53 +0000

This is a close-up shot of water flowing through some copper colored rocks. The algae certainly make these rocks look like a painting. Not a particularly clear and happy one, rather a more mystic, darker toned painting/subject. I was able to catch some focused and unfocused areas quite nicely, which i find to be good in this.