goddi Posted February 7, 2012 Report Posted February 7, 2012 Greetings,Here is a slideshow, Gardens of Stone, of our recent visit to the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, Cambodia. This slideshow contains only a few of the archaeological sites you can see. The Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992. The slideshow, showing a few of the sites we visited, is long, a bit over 20 minutes, 84Mb,1920x1080, but the Nav Bar is there for your convenience. Images were taken with a Nikon D7000. I hope you are entertained by it. Comments and critiques are welcomed.Download athttp://www.beechbrook.com/pte/Gary Quote
mhwarner Posted February 10, 2012 Report Posted February 10, 2012 Hi Gary,I enjoyed your latest show, although it was perhaps a bit long. While I enjoyed the many views of temples, the thing that caught my attention most was the kind and amount of stuff that people are able to carry on their bicycles and motorscooters (the pig was really amazing). I wondered a bit about safety while looking at these temples and noticing the number of wood and other props to shore up the buildings. More than anything I was impressed by the fact that these places were built so very long ago by a society that had far less than us in the way of technology. My only comment was that in some of the verticals there was a bit of distortion (not sure if it is considered "pincushon" or "barrel" distortion) from what I assume to be a wide angle lens. You might try using a standalone lens correction filter or one of the lens correction filters in Photoshop.Anyway, thanks for sharing this series. It must have been a fantastic trip and I'm sure your slideshows don't begin to cover all of the amazing sites you must have seen. Quote
goddi Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Posted February 10, 2012 Hi Gary,I enjoyed your latest show, although it was perhaps a bit long. While I enjoyed the many views of temples, the thing that caught my attention most was the kind and amount of stuff that people are able to carry on their bicycles and motorscooters (the pig was really amazing). I wondered a bit about safety while looking at these temples and noticing the number of wood and other props to shore up the buildings. More than anything I was impressed by the fact that these places were built so very long ago by a society that had far less than us in the way of technology. My only comment was that in some of the verticals there was a bit of distortion (not sure if it is considered "pincushon" or "barrel" distortion) from what I assume to be a wide angle lens. You might try using a standalone lens correction filter or one of the lens correction filters in Photoshop.Anyway, thanks for sharing this series. It must have been a fantastic trip and I'm sure your slideshows don't begin to cover all of the amazing sites you must have seen.=====================Mary,Yes, it is really too long but I had already cut out lots of images and temples. Give me another 6 months and I am sure I will be able to cut it down some more. When it is so fresh, it is hard to do. I always put in the Nav Bar to make it easier on viewer to pause or leave the show. It was so amazing to me to see the detail in the stone work and the tremendous amounts of stones. I've built a lot of dry-laid stone work around my house so I am really in awe of what I saw there. I never felt unsafe around the temples, though OSHA would have a blast there! No guard rails, steep steps, stone arches that on the verge of dropping... Also, I give thanks to the organizations that removed the landmines.If you look closely, the 'pig' is actually 2 pigs. Yes, I also noticed a lot of verticals were not vertical. I have a habit of not holding the camera exactly vertical or horizontal so I had to tweek a lot of the images to be level. But the problem was that most of the temples were not level so it is a bit confusing at times what to do with the image. But I did have to do a lot of slight 'rotation' of many images to fix my errors. I also had to use the wide-angle end of my 18-200 lens most of time because everything was so 'big', so that did cause some distortion. But it is hard to tell whether the 'leaning' of the temples is from the lens or from their old age.... But you have a good point about trying to correct for that. It will give me something to do now....thanks!!! Oh...yea. By the way, I remember you commented that you thought that our trek in the jungle had a lot of bugs. I said we actually did not have any problem with them. My wife reminded me that when we got back from our trek in Khoa Sok, we did have a bunch of leeches under our socks with streams of blood. Part of the adventure!Gary Quote
goddi Posted February 10, 2012 Author Report Posted February 10, 2012 Hi Gary,... My only comment was that in some of the verticals there was a bit of distortion (not sure if it is considered "pincushon" or "barrel" distortion) from what I assume to be a wide angle lens. You might try using a standalone lens correction filter or one of the lens correction filters in Photoshop.=================Mary,You got me to see what I can do about the distortion and perspective problems you pointed out. I found this great video on how to fix it in Photoshop. I knew it was a problem but was not sure how to deal with it. Thanks for the comments. I'll start fooling around with it.http://tv.adobe.com/...deangle-photos/Thanks... GaryP.S. For CS5:http://tv.adobe.com/watch/photoshop-cs5-feature-tour/automated-lens-correction/ Quote
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