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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 (26)
Seb Przd's favorite photos from other Flickr members (639)
Contacts (255)
Groups (50)
- Bretagne sans pareil 63,660 photos, 2,677 members
- Peirce Quincuncial 74 photos, 10 members
- Getty Images on Flickr 0 photos, 13,520 members
- 101 Cookbooks 595 photos, 632 members
- Statsr 22 photos, 147 members
- Ampersandland 909 photos, 387 members
- Labyrinth & Maze (Icarus, Daedalus, Minotaur, Theseus, Ariadne) 2,659 photos, 559 members
- Canadian Rockies 22,285 photos, 1,684 members
- Banff National Park 8,738 photos, 1,028 members
- Mandarin peelings 80 photos, 10 members
- Manfrotto Official 12,202 photos, 1,854 members
- Flickr API 780 photos, 10,736 members
- G'MIC 2,193 photos, 401 members
- Canada from Sea to Sea 180,092 photos, 6,254 members
- National Parks of Canada 16,394 photos, 1,500 members
- Alberta 58,687 photos, 1,405 members
- Amazing Alberta 52,785 photos, 1,715 members
- Handheld Panoramas 6,628 photos, 395 members
- HDR Equirectangular 386 photos, 54 members
- Hugin Users Group 9,750 photos, 1,209 members
- Big Heads 30 photos, 24 members
- Sunflow 878 photos, 117 members
- Structure Synth 1,135 photos, 279 members
- Vedutismo 243 photos, 36 members
- Frankfurt Flickr Meet 4,827 photos, 312 members
- Nitens Flickr Gadgets 5 photos, 89 members
- Polyhedra 1,321 photos, 129 members
- Atlanta 39,112 photos, 3,411 members
- Stereophotography 39,681 photos, 2,175 members
- 3D CrossView Stereo Photos 21,497 photos, 902 members
- Anaglyph (Red-Cyan 3D Pictures) 53,758 photos, 3,203 members
- Parcs Naturels Régionaux (PNR) 1,804 photos, 91 members
- Arithmancy 2,345 photos, 196 members
- Nikon DSLR Users 303,303 photos, 20,472 members
- povray 893 photos, 87 members
- Nikon Digital Learning Center 774,900 photos, 65,055 members
- Macro Viewers 83,398 photos, 4,227 members
- Get Your Geek On! 15,410 photos, 1,012 members
- Math World 4,358 photos, 964 members
- Germany, Deutschland 161,853 photos, 3,588 members
- Deutschland in Bildern 143,440 photos, 5,843 members
- Hessen 22,240 photos, 775 members
- Extremely Large Panoramas 10,000x minimum 1,591 photos, 573 members
- Pro Corner: Semi-Pro and Professional Photography / Photographer 256,165 photos, 18,263 members
- NIKON PROFESSIONAL 201,131 photos, 10,803 members
- Frankfurt Photos 30,489 photos, 2,065 members
- Foldables 509 photos, 61 members
- Stereographic Projections 7,984 photos, 1,048 members
- Paris 360° Panoramas 651 photos, 73 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