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Seb Przd's photostream
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About me...
I'm a photographer specialising in all kinds of images that cannot be taken with physical cameras.
How to contact me...
By email: sb.przd [at] gmail.com
A simple homepage: Seb Przd
About my work...
The first step is spherical panoramas, or as they are commonly known, Virtual Reality. Visit my equirectangular set, or view my last ten pictures in an interactive and immersive viewer (courtesy of fieldofview; needs Shockwave).
I also have a limited number of interactive panoramas in ViewAt.org (in Flash).
As the visual sphere cannot be projected onto a flat surface without being distorted or torn, I have devised several ways of showing these spherical panoramas on a flat screen. One of the most appealing ways is the stereographic projection, the most common presentation of which looks like a little planet.
The stereographic projection is just one example of conformal mappings, an infinite family of mathematically defined projections of the sphere to the plane that look good.
Conformal mappings can be put to other uses, namely the angle-preserving distortion of plane images:
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About my copyrights
Some of my pictures have a Creative Commons License of No Commercial, Share-Alike and Attribution, while others are All rights reserved. This does not mean that I won't allow commercial use of my images, and it also does not mean that I would not allow you to use my work for something else. It is very simple: just ask!
I would appreciate as attribution either my Flickr name or my full name and a link to my flickr page (electronic media) while for paper versions my full name would be preferred.
Technique:
I am not shy in giving information on how I do create my images. I don't give complete and detailed instructions, because I think that finding the solution is as much a part of creating the image as using the solution. So expect no pre-cooked, conformal-mappings-for-dummies from me, but plenty of links. I've tried to explain in my Set descriptions the basic information, please have a look there.
For example, how do I shoot my panoramic equirectangular images ?
Some other links:
Here are the pictures found to be most interesting
Photos of Seb Przd (20)
Seb Przd's favorite photos from other Flickr members (636)
Contacts (257)
Groups (50)
- Bretagne sans pareil 57,544 photos, 2,455 members
- Peirce Quincuncial 62 photos, 10 members
- Getty Images on Flickr 0 photos, 12,725 members
- 101 Cookbooks 595 photos, 623 members
- Statsr 21 photos, 135 members
- Ampersandland 892 photos, 385 members
- Labyrinth & Maze (Icarus, Daedalus, Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne) 2,662 photos, 552 members
- Canadian Rockies 21,256 photos, 1,644 members
- Banff National Park 8,651 photos, 1,000 members
- Mandarin peelings 80 photos, 10 members
- Manfrotto Official 9,407 photos, 1,797 members
- Flickr API 770 photos, 10,459 members
- G'MIC 1,930 photos, 359 members
- Canada from Sea to Sea 167,537 photos, 6,002 members
- National Parks of Canada 15,802 photos, 1,459 members
- Alberta 55,678 photos, 1,370 members
- Amazing Alberta 49,545 photos, 1,677 members
- Handheld Panoramas 6,260 photos, 384 members
- HDR Equirectangular 378 photos, 53 members
- Hugin Users Group 9,184 photos, 1,144 members
- Big Heads 31 photos, 23 members
- Sunflow 877 photos, 115 members
- Structure Synth 1,078 photos, 270 members
- Vedutismo 225 photos, 34 members
- Frankfurt Flickr Meet 4,367 photos, 304 members
- Nitens Flickr Gadgets 5 photos, 91 members
- Polyhedra 1,088 photos, 124 members
- Atlanta 38,315 photos, 3,349 members
- Stereophotography 36,820 photos, 2,105 members
- 3D CrossView Stereo Photos 19,750 photos, 872 members
- Anaglyph (Red-Cyan 3D Pictures) 48,769 photos, 3,110 members
- Parcs Naturels Régionaux (PNR) 1,748 photos, 89 members
- Arithmancy 2,266 photos, 193 members
- Nikon DSLR Users 261,499 photos, 19,412 members
- povray 865 photos, 87 members
- Nikon Digital Learning Center 709,202 photos, 63,586 members
- Macro Viewers 77,569 photos, 4,094 members
- Get Your Geek On! 15,305 photos, 1,013 members
- Math World 4,144 photos, 936 members
- Germany, Deutschland 147,336 photos, 3,435 members
- Deutschland in Bildern 133,240 photos, 5,669 members
- Hessen 20,825 photos, 751 members
- Extremely Large Panoramas 10,000x minimum 1,553 photos, 560 members
- Pro Corner: Semi-Pro and Professional Photography / Photographer 240,837 photos, 17,994 members
- NIKON PROFESSIONAL 163,239 photos, 9,208 members
- Frankfurt Photos 28,709 photos, 1,968 members
- Foldables 422 photos, 60 members
- Stereographic Projections 7,390 photos, 998 members
- Paris 360° Panoramas 650 photos, 71 members
- I.S.C.A.G.V.I - Aesthetics Symposium 29 photos, 9 members
Galleries (5)
- Equirectangular tiled floors 18 photos
- Equirectangular gazebos 17 photos
- Equirectangular bridges 17 photos
- Little planets on white background 17 photos
- The Eiffel thingy 9 photos
Testimonials (5)
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La Marquise says:
"We were very honored to present those amazing pictures at The Château de Maupas. Our friends and visitors just loved them: everyone left the galerie with a smile of surprise and a light of childhood in the eyes. Sebastien is such a wonderful person, as well as his lovely "models", and a great magician of pixels. We just cannot miss any of his creations anymore!
Keep your feet on your little planets but don't stop taking us to those new stars...Thanx!"17th October, 2007
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Josh Sommers says:
"Seb is a brilliant and creative photographer and artist. His skills go far beyond simply taking great photos and his creativity seems to have no limit. As the old proverb goes, Seb is one to "teach a man to fish". His instructional photo streams are educational and inspirational to many.
Thanks for all the great work and help Seb; keep it up!"4th December, 2006
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gadl says:
"Seb has that kind of photostream from which you do not want to miss any picture. It has been a constant source of inspiration for me, and with all the caption and comments attached to his pictures, it's also very educational.
The main two techniques I learned from his stream are the stereographic projection used in his little planets, and the droste effect. Do not miss these."4th November, 2006
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Manυ says:
"Fun, original, wild, beautiful, creative, enlighting, and incredibly instructive: Seb has mastered so many techniques, photographic as well as post-processing ones that it is difficult to visit his photostream without running home to try to do the same (thanks for the many tutorials:p)... but most often (read always) with less Art. Great work!"
1st November, 2006
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dmswart says:
"I'm honoured to write the first testimonial for Seb Przd - on the occasion of his photostream's 30000 views.
It's definately one of the most inspirational photostreams (for me) on flickr.
Seb. is dedicated and enthusiastic about the photo's he takes and it really shows up in his photos."31st October, 2006