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Today was devoted entirely to working on the VHS Birthday project for Mr. Owens. Yesterday, I took photos of the school for Fadi to pen tool, but the images were not detailed enough for him, so today I went and took some more. To achieve the required detail, I decided to make a panorama of the school. Quite simply, a panorama is a group of images of different parts of the same thing that are merged to create a single, massive image.

I took 132 photos for two panoramas, which took over an hour total to render. The first file image was 4.24GB and the second was 4.56GB!!!!! Photoshop cannot save images over 2GB, so I had to flatten the dozens of layers, which reduced the file size by a factor of sixteen. The final JPEG’s (which are around 50MB) are here and here (give them a LONG time to load).

Now it is Fadi’s turn to work his artistic magic with the pen tool.

Yesterday, Kyle tasked Fadi George and I with creating a “Valhalla Birthday” poster for Mr. Owens. The school is turning 35, and Mr. Owens plans to hold a celebration. Part of his plans include a very large poster that will be created by Mac Lab students. Kyle R, Kyle W, Fadi G, and myself have taken up the challenge.

Today, I took photos of the exterior of the school using the 5D Mark II so that Fadi can create a pen tool version of Valhalla. The photos only turned out average because whoever used the camera last did not remember to set the ISO back to 100 (it was at 400), so the dark areas had horrible granulation. Tomorrow I will try again with the correct ISO. Fadi has started the pen tooling, but the image is not clear enough for him to work well, so I plan to take multiple photos tomorrow and stick them together into a super-high resolution panorama (as if 21.1 megapixels wasn’t already enough!!!). The entire project is due on February 12th, so we only have 9 days to work. That shouldn’t be a problem, depending on how long it takes Fadi to do the pen tooling.

On another note, I was talking to Phillip Behnam at the end of lunch, and we made plans to do a cooperative light painting project sometime in the coming weeks. In light painting, the more people you have, the better, more detailed, and more extravagant the image, so with our combined talents, something really amazing should be created.