70 is a Beautiful Number

Surprise! Margaret's family surprised her for her 70th birthday. Fun guests, delicious food, a healthy dose of laughter, and even a live Skype rounded out an evening celebrating a woman who is clearly loved and blessed. Margaret shined with an inner light that women of a certain age attain as they grow in wisdom, appreciation, beauty, and love.
See Margaret's birthday images here.

Outdoor Spring Sittings

A few days left to book a sitting at our Quiet Water's Spring Blossom Sessions. And we still have some sittings available for our Terrapin Park Beach Sessions next month. Call or email to book your session.
(888) 269-7564
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Photoshop Podcast - Photography Exposed 003 - Creating Mini Planets

I taught Digital Imaging at Washington College this past fall semester, and for one of the assignments, I had students go photograph several images to stitch into a panoramic image, and fold into a mini-planet, like this one. I was making short videos like this for out of class review in case anyone had difficulties, and I thought it would make a good episode for Photography Exposed.

In this example shown, I shot several overlapping images around in a 360 degree sweep, based on a central point on campus at Washington College. I used Photomatix for tone mapping the images, which might be an extra step you may want to skip if this is your first time trying this.

The actual processing of the images and folding into a globe-looking image was all handled in Photoshop CS4.

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