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:
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Groups (50)
- G'MIC 87 photos, 66 members
- Canada from Sea to Sea 74459 photos, 3422 members
- National Parks of Canada 9008 photos, 994 members
- Alberta 32951 photos, 962 members
- Amazing Alberta 25307 photos, 1142 members
- Handheld Panoramas 3492 photos, 317 members
- HDR Equirectangular 264 photos, 28 members
- Hugin Users Group 3280 photos, 562 members
- Big Heads 30 photos, 20 members
- Sunflow 613 photos, 83 members
- Structure Synth 634 photos, 149 members
- Art Panoramas 19 photos, 33 members
- Vedutismo 119 photos, 25 members
- Frankfurt Flickr Meet 1871 photos, 174 members
- Nitens Flickr Gadgets 5 photos, 67 members
- Polyhedra 329 photos, 68 members
- Atlanta 29379 photos, 2676 members
- ..:: I LOVE DARK PHOTOS ::.. 64764 photos, 5813 members
- Stereophotography 20704 photos, 1391 members
- 3D CrossView stereo photos 11115 photos, 544 members
- Anaglyph (Red-Cyan 3D Pictures) 17187 photos, 1564 members
- Parcs Naturels Régionaux (PNR) 1108 photos, 67 members
- Better Than Good - INVITATION ONLY - Post 1 - Award 2 345040 photos, 46139 members
- Nikon DSLR Users 86767 photos, 12717 members
- Paragliding 4609 photos, 724 members
- Virtual Tours 9 photos, 32 members
- THE 5 most viewed on flickr (FIVE ONLY!) 2 photos, 84 members
- .Super A+++ Photo group (Post 1- Comment 2 )-by Invitation Only 41466 photos, 8274 members
- Flan 1150 photos, 143 members
- povray 452 photos, 71 members
- "GOLD WILDLIFE"--Wildlife Animals Only-- **Post 1, Award 2** 31907 photos, 4863 members
- Nikon Digital Learning Center 293616 photos, 46806 members
- Macro Viewers 46987 photos, 2669 members
- Floodlit Trees 67 photos, 70 members
- 3000 V + 120 F [before joining tag 3000v120f !!!!!!!!] 816 photos, 246 members
- Get Your Geek On! 13036 photos, 1038 members
- Math World 2127 photos, 624 members
- Germany, Deutschland 74855 photos, 2176 members
- Deutschland in Bildern - Pictures of Germany 77570 photos, 4084 members
- Hessen 11471 photos, 523 members
- TE PASASTE! (solo Fotos Invitadas) 7696 photos, 2643 members
- Very, VERY LARGE Photos (NEW: 20 megapixels or more) 847 photos, 432 members
- Extremely Large Panoramas 10,000x minimum 853 photos, 291 members
- Pro Corner: Semi-Pro and Professional Photography / Photographer 115346 photos, 13094 members
- NIKON PROFESSIONAL 57635 photos, 3724 members
- Interestingness | Must be in Top 10 15622 photos, 7260 members
- Frankfurt Photos 17003 photos, 1312 members
- Foldables 125 photos, 40 members
- Eyedrop White Balance 39 photos, 82 members
- Stereographic Projections 3996 photos, 612 members
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
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