Photographer’s Profile
Thomas K Sharpless
personal web pagesPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
TKSharpless@gmail.com
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.
I want to present 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 more natural than the commonly used rectilinear or cylindrical projections. And I am exploring 3-D stitching and multi-perspective as means to build convincing images out of photos taken from different positions.
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Contributions
Stereographers' Holiday
Manayunk Brewing Company, 4120 Main Street, Philadelphia PA
06/21/2024 23:40 UTC