About the Photographer
I'm a retired software engineer who got into panoramic photography by hacking a desktop document scanner into a rotating slit camera. I eventually built 5 scancams. They made amazing pictures, but had some severe technical limitations that finally led me to conventional cameras and stitching software. Now I have come to consider myself a photographer as much as an engineer.
My main goal as a photographer is to print very wide angle views that don't look "wide-angle" or "distorted". To that end I have developed software, based on the practice of 18th century view painter Gian Paolo Panini, to render wide scenes in a condensed perspective which often looks very natural, compared to the commonly used rectilinear or cylindrical projections. And I am exploring ways to build convincing multi-perspective images out of photos taken from different positions.
http://tksharpless.net
Contributions:
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wwp1212: Best Of 2012 / Full-Screen
- Fox Islands Thoroughfare
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Vinalhaven (Penobscot Bay), Maine, USA
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wwp912: Necessity / Full-Screen
- Philly Willy
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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wwp1211: Best Of 2011 / Full-Screen
- Crinan Sea Lock
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Crinan, Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK
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wwp908: Color / Full-Screen
- Plausible Colors
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Germantown (Philadelphia) Pennsylvania, USA
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wwp608: Elevation / Full-Screen
- Skyscape Platform
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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wwp907: Sustenance / Full-Screen
- Urban Wilderness
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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