Re: Stepping out a panorama (the method that can't be done!)

Cryptopix wrote:
> On Feb 8, 6:52 pm, "Jeff R." <contact...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> "Cryptopix" <crypto...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>
>>
news:dc3027dc-6385-447b-beee-e84e807c4dd3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> You know Rita...
>>> I'm happy to let these idiots dig their own grave. Just as soon as I'm
>>> satisfied they've dug deep enough to bury  themselves I'll come clean
>>> - so to speak! LOL.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Doug:
>>
>> (1) Why did you take down your
pagehttp://www.douglasjames.com.au/walking-pano.htm
?
>>
>> (2) Were the two photos you presented on that page taken from the same
>> position?
>>
>> --
>> Jeff R.
> 
> What I do with the web sites I develop, own or sell lease out is
> entirely my business, Jeff. Douglasjames.com.au was never going to be
> used for what a free site on flickr would do just as easily without
> wasting my resources. I posted some pictures to it so I could tickle
> up Google and the other search engines when I went live with it.
> 
> I have never concealed the fact I use these groups to increase a
> site's ratings or prime the search engines in advance. It quite a
> legitimate way to get ranking up. The3 more people who link to it, the
> higher it's ranking goes.
> 
> The answer to your 2nd question is NO. I would have thought providing
> full frame replicas of the originals was enough... Not for flock here
> it seems.
> 
> If you'd followed my history in these groups you'd have to come to the
> conclusion that those who think they are taking the mickey out of me
> are basically clueless. My unfavorite troll Marles (half Charles half
> Mark - I'm only ever chrlz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 for the researchers) started out
> when he didn't like the "plain English warranty" I published when I
> owned a couple of computer stores.
> 
> Then Marles decided my "Techno Aussie" digital enlargement algorithm
> was all bull**** too. Just because he couldn't understand the concept,
> much less the execution of it he figured I couldn't possibly be
> smarter than him so I must be full of bull****. He even went as far as
> to turn up at my wife's market stall where she sold my canvas rejects
> and damaged stock... After waiting for her to leave the display for a
> pee! All on security camera from my office above the street!
> 
> Then he got the idea my Government permits for taking photographic
> expeditions and tours into National Parks and sell the resulting
> photos was bull**** too. So misinformed was he, he wrote that the EPA
> (who issued the permits) were not the authority who did and I was
> bull****ing yet again. Even when I posted scans of the permits, it
> didn't cause him to break stride as he marched forth to do battle with
> yet another windmill.
> 
> The thing about this whole load issue Jeff, is that I suggested to
> someone a method I use (and have for a long time) to produce really
> unique, flat field panoramas and the sheep (including Marles) might
> just as well have rerun the 2005 scenario when I sent example of my
> enlargements to *QUALIFIED* professionals around the world who passed
> judgment on them. It is only my peers I take seriously. The garbage
> mouths like Mark and the Athiest are about as significant in my life
> as the mozzie I just swatted.

So why mention them in every post?
> 
> Definitely some of my techniques are radical in the sense they are not
> common knowledge, at the time the sheep discover them. That's how I
> got to be as successful as I am. Thousands of people each year by my
> photos. Dozens sign up for me as their wedding photographer and a few
> even pay obscene amounts for my fine art photos at galleries and
> auctions. It is innovators, not imitators who succeed in this world.
> 
> It is the wannabe imitators who think cutting tall poppies down to
> size is a national s****t in Australia. That's why the Asian and
> American business operators see us as easy prey... The dickheads like
> Mark Thomas and his puppets.
> 
> I use less than 15% of each image to create a stepped out panorama.
> Shooting with a 150mm lens doesn't help the similarity in the images
> for those who don't get to see the whole picture. I never said it was
> simple to create a flat field panorama by moving the camera linear
> instead of rotating it. In fact, I don't ever recall offering any
> information about how to do it, just a suggestion that it produces
> uniquely different images.
> 
> The joke is... Marles decided to take his toysRus camera out to play
> and "prove" he couldn't do it and then bleat back at the heard that
> just because he couldn't do it with his toysRus Sony, I must be (once
> again) full of bull****... ROTFL. Stay tuned for the final chapter.
> Skip all the one s in between because the end result always justifies
> the means!

And here I was thinking with the birth of CD and the death of vinyl we 
wouldn't have to listen to scratched records anymore.