Showing posts with label application. Show all posts
Showing posts with label application. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Panoramic Photos Using Automatic Panorama for Nokia N8 or Microsoft ICE

Jeff
I am really enjoying taking 180-degree panoramic pictures using my Nokia N8 and its application Automatic Panorama. With my phone I just need to click once and point my camera smartphone to the desired target and the I won’t have to press again for the succeeding shots until I’ve taken the panoramic shot and want the application to build the panoramic photo.

I have researched before about taking panoramic shots and am thankful for my friend Azrael who introduced me to Microsoft ICE which is a software that stitches photos to create a panoramic effect. The difference with the Automatic Panorama application in my Nokia N8 is, with Microsoft ICE I would need to take multiple photos (multiple clicks), upload the picture to my computer and let the software do the stitching. It does not matter much if the shots taken had exact boundaries because the software is intelligent enough to detect and stitch them together. I did not have to research much about panoramic photography and cut time on working on articles about cheap insurance companies. Below is a photo using a Nikon D40 and the power of Microsoft ICE.



With the Automatic Panorama application (available in Nokia Ovi Store for free), I won’t have to click multiple shots but I would have to align my aim to the box that is indicated in the screen when I take the parts of the whole panoramic photo. Sometimes it is difficult to aim the camera where it should take the photo. An advantage is that I don’t need a laptop or a computer to process the photos but the application will do it for me in my Nokia N8 and if there is internet connection available, share it with my friends in FB and Twitter via Ovi Social. Below is the photo I took using the Automatic Panorama application in my Nokia N8.


Tuesday, January 6, 2009

My 4th Blog Got Approved at PayU2Blog!

Jeff
Yahoo! I sent in an application for my fourth blog at PayU2Blog and I got accepted. I praise God! After a few days of migrating autorepairprinciples.com from free hosting at blogger to a paid host using the Wordpress blog platform, the blog got reviewed by my account supervisor and it got approved.

Some skills that I have learned this past year were getting a domain name, editing its name servers to point to the hosting I purchased and uploading files I need to set up a Wordpress blog. These were all I needed to migrate from blogger. I appreciate the import option at Wordpress, migration is so easy. The only downside was I had to change my Wordpress theme because the same theme from blogger supported widgets but the one from Wordpress supported only one sidebar and I wanted a template with two sidebars.

Doing all these was worth it because of the PayU2Blog approval. The next thing I will be working on is the 5th and final blog. Probably in more than a month i will be submitting a 5th blog. To God be the glory!

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Application Exercise for the Single Stroke Roll

Jeff
This is a follow up entry to the Single Stroke Roll lesson that I recently posted. This is a fill that you can use and an application of the previous lesson. Start practicing at a slow tempo then speed up as you grow comfortable with the tempo you are practicing in.