Followed by 1 Person (invite friends)
The unusual view today from the top of the Patscherkofel mountain (click to view larger image): Images Copyright Abteilung Waldschutz/Luftguete Please note these are not ‘my’ images and are sourced from (and belong to) this site: http://www.tirol.gv.at/themen/umwelt/luft/livebilder/innsb
...
I don’t normally like vermouth, but here it was delicious… ..and one led to another… Located here.
The normal rule with HDR is to use a tripod and try and keep everything as still as possible between the multiple exposures. However, recently I have been playing around with things that move and HDR. Basically if something moves (between the exposures) you can get some fun ghostly effects. I like t
...
I love capturing mountain scenes with clouds in my normal photography. Interesting clouds can really add to a composition: Or frame a scene: Or with a bit of HDR trickery create a dramatic atmosphere: So when I want to create GigaPans of mountain scenes I want to include clouds as well and use them
...
Recently I have been lugging around my camera, gigapan, tripod and numerous batteries on most of my trips. I always feel the further I carry it, the more I deserve to get a great panoramic image. And of course it never works out like that… I have realised that the ‘zoomability’ of
...
Recently I borrowed and then bought my own GigaPan. I have gone for the GigaPan EPIC entry level model and I am using it with my trusty TZ10. Essentially the GigaPan is a robotic camera mount to create high-resolution panoramic images. You mount your digital camera on the GigaPan, set your camera
...
I have always been rather amused by the rather pretentious and lazy concept of Found Art. Well now I have caught myself doing it. On my iGoogle page I always have the webcam image from the top of the Patscherkofel mountain as it is a great way to check the weather. For example, when there [...]
Recently NORC released a Street View type service for several towns in Austria. It is a nice (if basic) web app, but it is a pity for them that the Google Street release in Austria is imminent. As always we can expect some cheap journalism around privacy issues like this one, but my local free pape
...
The Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash seems to have reached us here in Innsbruck too. It has created this wonderful evening sunset scene from the web cam on Patsherkofel mountain:
Note: Details in this post may have been changed to protect privacy! I’m no Google fan boy, but the one thing I seem to be always defending is Google Street View. It really is not that big an invasion of privacy compared to CCTV although you have to admire this rather more direct Austrian resp
...
More Stories
