Link Here | April 1, 2008,

I like the the blue cast of the lights and some of the more watercolor like places on the old one but it falls apart in other places. Overall the new one is stronger. However if something like the soft feel of the first one could be controlled but not feel to “art filtery” that might be interesting.

Comment by Matthew McGregor-Mento |

Link Here | April 8, 2008,

Nothing really special about your work. The cylindrical distortion is due to the software, not your artistic ability. Your compositions are nonexisttant, and you control of tones is pityful.

In other words, a monkey can duplicate your work.

Sorry if the truth hurts

Comment by John Sebring

Link Here | April 8, 2008,

Hi John,

I was about to take your comment serious, only to discover that your email address isn’t valid, and your IP comes from a german anonymizer. Which makes you an anonymous coward.

I am not sure where your motivation comes from to write this comment. You surely went through the trouble of going to my site, looking at my panoramas and writing a fairly critical comment. Which is fine by me, but your opinion is not necessarily “the truth.”

Yes, I know a monkey (or in fact a robot from CMU) could take those panoramas, but that would be just the beginning. Each panorama has hundreds of artistic choices, and that is something that can’t be done by a monkey (maybe an ape with 20 years of training could do this).

The distortion doesn’t come from the software, it comes from mathematics and the methods how to map a sphere onto a 2D medium, the software just does it, and I am controlling how it does it.

If you don’t like the compositions, so be it, everybody is entitled to like or not like something. I know that everybody can press a button on a camera (probably you too), but that doesn’t result in a good photo all the time.

And since you decided to stay anonymous, I can’t even tell if you are producing something decent that would give you the qualification for your comment.

So, if you have a monkey that can do what I do, I would be very interested, since my photos are a lot of hard work, and it would be great to have a couple of monkeys to do the job for me.

Comment by Joergen |

Link Here | April 17, 2008,

Hi Joergen,

Remarkable progress, is it not? The 2 panoramas are like day and night and the dynamic range increase makes it that much more close to reality. Did you fuse or tone map these? Beautiful job, as always.

@John Sebring’s comment: Truth does not hurt, it helps. Your truth does not help. It hurts, because your truth is less than half the truth and utterly misguided information, which you care to preach to others and feed your ego with it. Ain’t that the truth?

Comment by Milko Amorth |