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Suspect allegedly carried handgun into 7-Eleven on Tuesday
Law enforcement is asking for the public's help identifying a suspect in a Tuesday armed robbery of a Sunderland convenience store.
At 12:53 p.m. Nov. 5, a black man allegedly walked into the Sunderland 7-Eleven convenience store and announced an armed robbery, according to a Calvert County Sheriff's Office press release.
The man's hands were covered by gloves and he was carrying a light blue reusable shopping bag and a large caliber handgun, police said. He is about 5 feet, 7 inches, to 5 feet, 9 inches tall with a medium build, according to the press release. The suspect was wearing a gray hoodie with "Johnson & Wales" possibly printed on the front, a baseball hat with a red brim, black pants and running shoes or sneakers, the release states.
The man "rounded up both employees into the cashier area," police said, and then ordered them to open the registers and put all the money in his bag or he would kill them. He obtained cash from both registers and stole about 20 packs of Newport cigarettes and two cartons of cigarillos, according to the press release. He then ran from the store north toward Dalrymple Road. Police said neither employee was hurt.
The robbery is being investigated by Det. H. R. Rich of the Calvert Investigative Team. Anyone with information is asked to contact him at 410-535-2800, ext. 2765.
Go to www.co.cal.md.us/residents/safety/law/sheriff/ and click on the Crime Solvers link to leave an anonymous tip online, or call 410-535-2880. Information leading to the arrest and conviction of a suspect could result in a $1,000 reward.

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This year, 20,000 students explored opera through OperaTunity School Tours. Performances of Instant Opera and The Mini-Magic Flute drew raves from students and teachers alike. 7,000 students and chaperones across the state experienced opera during Student Night. Over 1,000 people attended various Cultural Festivals that connected the respective operas to larger conversations in our community, and many more learned about opera through lectures, talkbacks and special events.
2014/15 was a wonderful season filled with engaging conversations, and we look forward to an exciting 2015/16 season. Use the dropdown menus to the left to explore programs, and check back throughout summer for more updates.
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E-book reader options have changed radically in the past year — some models are priced as low as $79, and many more now offer opportunities to enjoy music, video, games and all sorts of apps.
See also: Top techno-gadget entertainment trends.
How to choose? The most basic distinction between models today is black-and-white or color. With this in mind, here are eight questions to ask when considering a purchase.
1. Are you planning to read outdoors?
The black-and-white screen models are far less susceptible to glare than color e-readers. They look fine under modest lighting (such as the overhead light on a plane) but remain entirely readable while sitting on a beach or a park bench, where the overhead sun will turn a color screen into a solar reflector — that's great for getting a tan, but not much use for reading.
2. Are you planning to read in bed?
Most monochrome e-book readers don't have a built-in light, and while some include accessory lights, a color model that uses a standard color LCD screen could be a better choice if your plan is to do a lot of bedtime reading. There is one intriguing new exception among monochrome readers, though: the new Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight.
3. How often will you recharge the battery?
Battery life is a key advantage for black-and-white e-book readers, which can run a full month or more without recharging. The e-ink display used in these devices uses some power to change pages, but not to keep them visible. Color e-book readers, on the other hand, with their LCD screens, will last just a day or two with heavy use before needing a recharge.
4. Will you be reading magazines or children's books?
Magazines and children's books look drab at best on a black-and-white screen, while the vivid colors of a color LCD capture all the graphic goodness of the original publication. Most magazine pages don't fit comfortably on a small e-book reader screen, though, so expect to do some scrolling around to see everything.
5. Do you want to watch videos or play games on your e-book reader?
The color e-book readers from Amazon and Barnes & Noble double as limited-purpose, seven-inch tablets. They're certainly not as flexible as an iPad or full-on Android tablet — no cameras, no GPS, a comparatively limited selection of apps — but they do a very nice job playing video and MP3 music files, and offer a selection of games and other diversions.
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Deceased homeowner was trapped inside 2-story home
By AMANDA SCOTT
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One person is dead following an early Christmas morning house fire in Owings.
At 4:07 a.m. Wednesday morning, a neighbor noticed a home in the 6500 block of Lower Marlboro Lane in Owings was on fire and called 911, according to officials. Firefighters from Huntingtown, Prince Frederick, Dunkirk, North Beach and Anne Arundel County fire departments responded to the home.
Shortly after the departments were dispatched, according to a Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department press release, communications advised that it was unknown if the homeowner was home or not. As the units arrived at the 2-story single-family wood frame home, communications advised and the neighbor confirmed that the homeowner was trapped inside, according to the release.
When units arrived the residence was engulfed in flames, the press release states, and crews immediately tried to locate and rescue the victim.
"Despite these valiant efforts, firefighters watched as the house began to twist, shortly before collapsing into the basement foundation, less than [four] minutes after arriving on location," Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department Deputy Fire Chief Jonathan Riffe said in the release. No injuries were reported involving responding personnel at the scene, according to the Maryland State Fire Marshal's office.
Crews worked for hours knocking down the stubborn fire before locating the victim, according to the release.
Deputy State Fire Marshal Bruce D. Bouch said Thursday morning that the victim's body was transported to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner to confirm the identity and cause of death. Bouch said they are still waiting on that confirmation. The cause of the fire, he said, is still unknown.
A press release from the state fire marshal's office states that the fire "heavily damaged" the home and three vehicles, causing an estimated $250,000 in damage.


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I ask President Obama's science adviser how the president plans to work with Republicans to renew American energy research.
November 14, 2014, Friday
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This week the Book Review cover features Frank Rich on "The Invisible Bridge," the third volume in Rick Perlstein's series about the history of American conservatism.
August 1, 2014, Friday
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With Wrigley Field celebrating its centennial, George F. Will takes a deeply personal look at his hapless Chicago Cubs.
June 29, 2014, Sunday
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The columnist George Will recently took aim at tax breaks for environmentally friendly cars. Other kinds of cars get them, too.
January 11, 2014, Saturday
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Mr. Will has been contributing to ABC's Sunday political show "This Week" since 1981, when the host was David Brinkley.
October 2, 2013, Wednesday
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Do we really want to go back to the '80s? Why not imagine a better limited-but-energetic government instead?
August 2, 2013, Friday
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Republicans slash the federal investment in basic science on energy frontiers.
July 11, 2013, Thursday
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The Supreme Court appears ready to eviscerate the Voting Rights Act — and seriously harm itself in the process.
March 6, 2013, Wednesday
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The Last Atomic Bomb
Robert Richter's social activist documentary The Last Atomic Bomb revolves around the experiences of Sakoe Shimohira. A Nagasaki indigene present at the United States' nuclear bombing of that city in 1945, Shimohira survived the blast by holing up in a bomb shelter when the payload fell. She felt instant rage over the actions of the U.S., and has devoted recent years to protesting contemporary nuclear proliferation. Richter and co. tell Shimohira's terrifying story by blending extraordinarily rare archival footage with current recollections by Shimohira and others, such as survivor Koichi Wada. The filmmakers then follow Shimohira and two coeds as the activists travel the world, delivering letters of anti-nuclear protest to President George W. Bush, President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and others. Richter interweaves this story with bracing, potent explorations of hot-button issues such as 21st century nuclear buildup by Korea and other countries, cover-ups by the American and Japanese governments about the effects of the 1945 fallout, prejudice by younger generations of Japanese people against survivors of the 1945 attacks, and many other related subtopics.~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—Drive your Accord or Camry to Ohio Democratic Party headquarters, and you're likely to see it towed straightaway. A sign posted on the fence outside a converted Salvation Army building in German Village reads, "Only vehicles assembled by union workers in North America are welcome in this parking lot."
They're not kidding.
"We really do tow foreign cars here," says Justin Barasky, the campaign manager for Sherrod Brown, the Democratic senator from Ohio who is locked in a brutal reelection fight. "It's really, really important to Sherrod to buy an American car."
American cars—and steel, and glass, and even shoelaces—lie at the heart of Brown's effort to hold onto his job, and they also explain why, improbably, he appears to be winning. Foreign trade, and the good and the bad that flows from it, has emerged as a red-letter issue in a way it wasn't even six years ago, when Brown first secured his Senate seat.
The gravel-voiced, sneaker-wearing senator fashions himself the workingman's champion, a blue-collar hero in a swing state that hasn't been inclined in recent years to embrace his sort of unabashed liberalism. In a campaign season in which Republicans have successfully gone on the attack against unions, Brown has redoubled his populist commitment to what he calls his "brothers and sisters" in labor. He is a full-throated backer of gay marriage and abortion rights, and he has been ranked one of the five most liberal members of the Senate. Brown has voted with President Obama 95 percent of the time—and when he doesn't, it's usually because he's to the left of the president. As evidenced by the towing policy at Democratic headquarters, Brown's party is following his lead.
"My focus for my whole career has been, how do you give working-class people a chance, how do you fight for workers and small business, whether it's rural or in small towns or in cities like Toledo?" Brown asks.
The senator's politics have earned him enemies. With the exception of Obama, no candidate running for reelection this year has faced greater political opposition than he has. Third-party conservative groups and super PACs have spent $20 million and counting to defeat Brown—a sum that already outstrips any other Senate or House race in history.
Republicans were certain that once voters across Ohio got a taste of just how liberal Brown really is, they would realize he didn't represent their interests. They had reason to be optimistic: By 2010, every other statewide office in Ohio was held by a Republican—and Rob Portman had been elected to succeed George Voinovich in the Senate, keeping that seat in GOP hands. Brown should have been easy pickings.
But instead, less than a month before the election, the senator appears to be on a roll, even as Obama has faltered. Campaigning on a pro-labor, pro-government platform that includes the auto-industry bailout, aggressive trade protectionism that often veers into straight-up China-bashing, and the virtues of the economic stimulus, "Obamacare," and clean energy, Brown is crushing his Republican opponent, 34-year-old state Treasurer Josh Mandel.
According to an Oct. 11 NBC/Wall Street Journal/Marist College poll of Ohio's likely voters, Brown leads Mandel by 11 points, 52 percent to 41 percent. He's outpacing Obama, who will almost certainly have to take Ohio to win reelection, and who in the same poll was beating Mitt Romney by 6 points, 51 percent to 45 percent in the Buckeye state, amid signs the presidential race in the state was again tightening.
Dig deeper, and an even more surprising story emerges. Across the country, the president and other Democratic candidates have had trouble connecting with blue-collar whites, the voters who were hit hardest by the Great Recession. In Ohio, the picture is different. An Oct. 8 poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press found that, nationally, likely blue-collar white voters overwhelmingly prefer Romney, who is polling at a whopping 28 points ahead of Obama, 61 percent to 33 percent. But in Ohio, Obama has narrowed that vast canyon down to a respectable ravine. In the Oct. 11 NBC poll, Romney led Obama by 6 points among the state's blue-collar whites, 51 percent to 45 percent. And Brown has closed the gap entirely with blue-collar whites, tying Mandel at 46 percent apiece.
It's those blue-collar whites who may be the key to Brown's surprising success. He is a tireless campaigner, most at home in the union halls and VFW clubs of Ohio's 88 counties (82 of which, he'll tell you, have jobs related to the domestic auto industry). The auto bailout, while unpopular nationally, was viewed as a godsend here, and Brown has been its beneficiary.
He's also gotten flat-out lucky. Mandel has proved to be unready for prime time, and his campaign has flailed accordingly. Ohio's economy has brightened markedly—not only because of auto jobs but because of an energy boom in the eastern part of the state. And a thwarted GOP effort to alter collective-bargaining laws for state workers helped to energize Brown's base.
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We understand the importance of integrating eco-friendly materials into our products, and we are enthusiastic about our major step forward with the use of PaperStone for our handles. Made from 100$ post-consumer recycled products, it's the greenest material you can find. More importantly, it's rugged, withstands heat or cold, and is very durable. First used on handles for our Metro, with positive results, it's now key to the beginning of our line of EcoLite knives, which are very light but extremely durable. Imagine a knife with exactly the same great features as our classic 110, but now with half the weight and without sacrificing any of the features and advantages you want and need on the trail or on the job.
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I can confirm it doesn't work. Stickes seems to be doing something special with its windows - unlike normal application windows, they do not acquire focus when they become "uncovered", and without focus they cannot receive input.
All right, I have a fix. Echo will now attempt to restore focus to the application that was active before Echo was invoked.
The fix will work only if Echo is activated via the hotkey. It will not work if Echo gets activated by clicking its icon in the tray, or pressing Alt+Tab etc. To make it always work, Echo would have to install a system-wide hook, and that's probably overkill, as it impacts the performance of all running applications .
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Following two years as a graduate assistant in the Tennessee Tech Athletic Performance Center, Matt Hewett has been elevated to the position of Student Support Associate.
"I am excited to have Matt on board as a full-time member of our staff. Matt is a highly energetic guy and a great coach. He has a genuine love for coaching and is a high-character individual who will serve as a great role model for our athletes. I appreciate all that Matt has done for TTU Athletic Performance and I am excited for our future."
During the past two seasons, Hewett assisted in the strength training and conditioning workouts for TTU football under the direction of Kramer and former Director of Athletic Performance Chip Pugh. He also designed and administered strength training and conditioning workouts for both the baseball and volleyball teams.
A Dresden, Tenn., native, Hewett is a level 1 certified USA W Sport Performance Coach, a CrossFit level 1 trainer, and has strength and conditioning specialist certification pending.
Prior to earning his masters in exercise science, physical education and wellness at Tennessee Tech, Hewett attended UT Martin and graduated cum laude with a bachelor of science in Health and Human Performance with a concentration in Exercise Science and Wellness. Hewett will draw on his experiences as a volunteer coach for Dresden High School. Hewett also played runningback for the Skyhawks and served as the football strength and conditioning intern. After graduation, Hewett became a strength and conditioning intern at the University of Tennessee from January to June, 2012.
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We're all counting on members of Congress to stand up for our nation's animals—so to remind them of the difference animals make in our lives, we arranged for them to spend a little quality time with some adorable animals yesterday at Paws for Love, a Capitol Hill Valentine's Day event organized by the ASPCA and hosted by the Congressional Animal Protection Caucus (CAPC).
During Paws for Love, legislators and staff got to canoodle with adoptable animals from D.C.-area shelters and rescues. The shelters and rescues got to highlight their important work, and, best of all, at least six deserving animals found their forever homes!
Paws for Love was also the first CAPC event of the 114th Congress. Formed in 2009, the CAPC employs non-partisan forums and briefings to highlight important issues affecting animals. The caucus also tracks the progress of relevant legislation, provides members of Congress with credible information, and strives to build broad coalitions in support of common-sense, humane animal welfare laws and policies.
The caucus has two new Co-Chairs this year: Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Mike Fitzpatrick (R-PA), both of whom spoke at the event. Reps. Blumenauer and Fitzpatrick have been leading champions of humane issues and demonstrated career-long commitment to advancing animal welfare policies in Congress. The two previously collaborated to introduce legislation that would protect public health and safety by prohibiting interstate commerce in primates for the pet trade, and have supported many other animal welfare legislative efforts including bills to crack down on animal fighting, protect farm animals, and save our nation's horses from the cruelty of slaughter. The two Co-Chairs will work with new and returning CAPC members to advance animal protection legislation in the 114th Congress.
Check out the photos below to see why Paws for Love is, as many attendees claimed, their "favorite workday ever."
Representative Earl Blumenauer, CAPC Co-Chair
Representative Leonard Lance meets a dog from Washington Humane Society
Representative Mike Fitzpatrick, CAPC Co-Chair
Representative Walter Jones & ASPCA SVP of Government Relations Nancy Perry
Stacie Gregg and son Declan (ASPCA 2012 Kid of the Year) with Representative Frank Guinta
Erica Striebel from Representative Ander Crenshaw's office adopted a pup from Last Chance Rescue. His name is Finnegan.
Are you looking for unconditional love this Valentine's Day? Look no further than the ASPCA Adoption Center! In honor of this heart-filled holiday, the ASPCA is offering discounted adoption fees for our adoptable dogs and cats from Saturday, February 14 through Saturday, February 21. Here's the scoop:
• The adoption fee for kittens aged four months to one year will be $50.
• If you adopt one kitten, you can adopt a second kitten for no cost.
• There will be no adoption fee for cats aged one year and older.
• Dog adoption fees will be discounted by 50%.
Musical group The Platters stopped by the Adoption Center this week to kick off this special promotion, performing the 1955 love song "Only You" in the Adoptions lobby. The group also provided the song for use in our new "Kitty Kiss" video, which highlights a unique sign of affection cats show for their human companions. Watch the video below, and sign our pledge to make pet adoption your first option!
If you don't live in New York City but would like to adopt a pet, please visit our Adopt section to find available dogs and cats in your area!
As we head into 2015, many of us are setting goals for the year ahead. But as you write out your New Year's resolutions, it's important to keep your pets in mind as well!
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Panoramas and lightweight travel kits
April 17, 2012, 05:07:37 PM »
First off, I hope I chose the right section for this...
My situation is this: the wife and I are doing a lot more traveling than we used to (figure 2-3 weeks of international travel per year), and I'd like to be able to shoot the occasional panorama. The problem is that my travel kit is pretty small and lightweight (see photo below), which works well if we walk 15-20 miles over a 15 hours day, but doesn't leave much room for carrying a tripod. Here's a photo of my current camera bag, my main tripod, and a monopod I grabbed from the shed so you can get a sense for scale:
I've tried shooting panoramas freehanded: the first here was taken on a whim with an EPL-2 last year:
And this most recent one was taken with a Fuji X Pro 1. No support, but I turned on the horizontal level indicator and honestly tried to keep everything even:
I could probably make that work, especially with more practice, but I don't know that I'll be happy with the result.
So, my question to you all is multipart:
Is it possible to get one's technique with handheld panoramas perfected to the point that a tripod isn't necessary for these kinds of prints? Assume I'm willing to shoot at 800-1600ASA and the print wont' be wider than 30-40 inches.
If so, is there something to do other than
move the camera from frame to frame as part of my technique?
If not, and you were going to walk for a week around your favorite European city without revisiting your hotel during the day, what sort of support would you end up dragging along? I'm happy to pay for a solid carbon fiber tripod, but don't really know where to start with heads (I've only ever used simple ball heads), and I certainly don't know how to incorporate something like that into a conveniently portable kit.
Thanks. Google was pointing me to leveling bases, nodal point adapter thingies, and seriously custom (and not very portable) equipment for this, but really I'm just looking for good prints to put up on the wall that don't have obvious flaws. So a bridge across a river should still be reasonably straight, for instance...
Peter McLennan
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Re: Panoramas and lightweight travel kits
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April 17, 2012, 05:45:07 PM »
Quote from: dzeanah on April 17, 2012, 05:07:37 PM
Is it possible to get one's technique with handheld panoramas perfected to the point that a tripod isn't necessary for these kinds of prints? Assume I'm willing to shoot at 800-1600ASA and the print wont' be wider than 30-40 inches.
Yes. I've done it frequently. 40 inch prints, too. A recent one was actually an HDR pano; five vertically-oriented panels of three shots each. In retrospect, the image would have been slightly improved if I'd used a tripod. More credit goes to "auto align layers" and Photoshop's stitcher than to my hand-holding, though.
If so, is there something to do other than
move the camera from frame to frame as part of my technique?
Practice and test
until you're confident. Try stitches with the horizon not in the middle of the frame. Learn to memorize image features from frame to frame and overlap them. Keep the horizon as level as you can in each frame. Learn to use the "warp" function in Photoshop. Your results look pretty good to me at web-rez.
If not, and you were going to walk for a week around your favorite European city without revisiting your hotel during the day, what sort of support would you end up dragging along?
None. If the tripod's only useful for panos, I'd leave it in the hotel unless I needed a tripod for sharpness reasons. You can pick it up from the room when you go out night shooting. : )
I'm just looking for good prints to put up on the wall that don't have obvious flaws. So a bridge across a river should still be reasonably straight, for instance...
I have several hand-held panos on my wall. One of a chateau in Bergerac that's a source of constant comment. I made it hand-held with a 200mm.
Walking all day in a city while carrying a tripod, however light, is gonna cost you more in fatigue than it'll gain you in imagery. Until it gets dark. : )
Just my opinion based on quite a few years of hand-holding panos. All bets are off for interiors or for panos with near-to-camera subject matter. For the record, my tripod is the biggest, heaviest Gitzo made: a GT5560SGT. When you need a tripod, you need a good one.
Tony Jay
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April 17, 2012, 06:02:58 PM »
This is(are) a tough question(s) since the answers depend solely on what you are happy with.
I do HDR panoramas, the biggest of which has been 30 images so far.
In this instance dedicated levelling, panoramic heads (or even motorizede versions), tethering to computers or even using programmable remotes to speed up shooting and to control the focusing points when needed all make for lots of bulky equipment.
I fully understand your desire to keep things light and portable so just make sure that your tripod can be properly levelled.
A three way spirit level that fits on the flash hotshoe is helpful here.
Without a lot of automation to guide shooting your best bet is not to focus too tightly (on can always crop later), and allow generous overlap (30-50 %) to make things easier for the software.
Complex compositions with elements both near and far are best avoided to minimize errors in parallax.
Nonetheless, despite limitations, really good results can be obtained - sometimes even when shooting is handheld.
Practice is important - IMHO shoot panoramas regularly (at home as well as when travelling), this is probably even more important than the fancy equipment anyway.
Enjoy yourself - panoramic shooting can become a bit addictive - but there is a reason for this.
Tony Jay
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April 17, 2012, 07:26:15 PM »
I also do quite a few panos handheld with my Pentax 645D. I have a grid focus screen and I find that help with following a horizon and keeping the camera straight--I use one line of the grid and overlay that on the (imaginary) horizon line in the scene. My E-P1 has a grid display for live view which can be assigned to the info button, perhaps your X Pro1 has a similar projection. I also have a small tabletop tripod I have used for night panoramas--not for leveling the camera, but holding it steady. It slips in the camera bag nicely.
I usually use a cylindrical projection and I find that the easiest to predict the crop to make it square. I always pan just a little more than I want (a quarter to half a frame or so at each end) and I expect to lose a bit top and bottom. After a while it is easy to predict.
The only time is becomes difficult is when there are foreground objects in the scene which can be affected by parallax or the entrance pupil. It is not impossible, but it take practice to rotate close to the entrance pupil.
I have also done vertical panos and they can be easy.
The only other thing would be to use manual focus and manual exposure. I have found some situations like sunsets that a preset WB is important as well.
I am like you that I would most likely keep the tripod at home while traveling. I think with a bit of practice, panning handheld is a great skill.
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April 18, 2012, 04:50:54 AM »
What no-one has mentioned so far is stitching software. Getting decent results is substantially about having and knowing how to use it. Non-issues like levelling at the time of shooting come up time and again as if this was critical - and it isn't, you can do this in pp. Some people report good results using Photoshop. I've only tried it with CS3 and the results were abominable compared to dedicated stitching software. I use PTGui Pro - which is excellent - but from what I've heard Autopano is equally effective.
As for the general issue of using pano heads, obviously if you set them up correctly you'll get better results when there's a lot of detailed close foreground than if you shot the same scene hh. However with a little practice you can actually rotate the camera about an approximate entrance pupil even hh. I have a Nodal Ninja pano head which I use mostly for VR panoramas; it's flimsy but light, compared to the weight of most tripods that have to accompany it.
Get some dedicated software and learn how to use it!
Thomas Krüger
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April 18, 2012, 05:32:41 AM »
Check the good old "Philopod":
As looking for small carbon monopods I found the Sirui P-326
Tony Jay
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April 18, 2012, 05:42:11 AM »
Quote from: OldRoy on April 18, 2012, 04:50:54 AM
What no-one has mentioned so far is stitching software. Some people report good results using Photoshop. I've only tried it with CS3 and the results were abominable compared to dedicated stitching software...
Actually CS5 is pretty good.
I have done some fairly complex stitching with CS5 - I agree the results with CS3 were amateurish by comparison.
Autopano is also good but better used for multirow panoramas.
I am not sure whether it is available apart from the motorized heads (they certainly don't fall into the category of small and light and mobile though) - I am certainly averse to lugging my Autopano Pro head any distance without help.
Tony Jay
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April 18, 2012, 06:55:02 AM »
Thanks for the comments, folks. Lots to think about and test/practice.
And just to be clear: when we're talking about rotating around the nodal point, what I'm actually trying to do is pivot on the point of the lens where the aperture blades are, right?
Tony Jay
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April 18, 2012, 07:14:34 AM »
Not really...
The nodal point is the optical axis of the lens.
It can be very hard to precisely determine, but for your purposes think of it as your front lens element.
If you want to experiment with a panoramic head using the front lens element as the starting point you can shoot a scene with something obvious in the foreground like a stake or a thin tree and something similar further back but relatively close by in the axis of the view.
Take an image and then rotate the camera say 20-30 degrees making sure that the two elements are still in view and take another picture.
If the lens is rotating around the nodal point there will be no movement of the two element relative to one another in the two images.
If the lens is not rotating around the nodal point then experiment by repeating the steps mentioned above with the camera moved forward or backward slightly. By doing this a few times it will quickly become clear in which direction one needs to move since the relative distance between the two elements in the scene will change less as opposed to more.
If you are going to be shooting handheld anyway doing the experiment above is meaningless.
The big key is avoid scenes where there are both near and far elements in the scene - this removes most of the issues caused by errors in parallax.
Tony Jay
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April 18, 2012, 07:34:35 AM »
Quote from: dzeanah on April 18, 2012, 06:55:02 AM
Thanks for the comments, folks. Lots to think about and test/practice.
And just to be clear: when we're talking about rotating around the nodal point, what I'm actually trying to do is pivot on the point of the lens where the aperture blades are, right?
Yes, you typically want to rotate on the axes that go through the entrance pupil of the lens, which is where the aperture blades seem to be when looking through the front of the lens.
However, when traveling light and/or shooting freehand, that may be difficult. Just try to avoid the mistake of rotating the camera around you neck, but try and rotate yourself around the approximate entrance pupil position. The 'philopod' mentioned can help. With some decent overlap between the tiles your stitching/blending software should be able to sort most issues out. When there is lot's of foreground detail, then you may get into trouble when shooting freehand and rotating around the wrong point.
== If you do what you did, you'll get what you got. ==
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April 18, 2012, 08:38:26 AM »
two unmentioned so far things that should help you is to
(a) shoot with the camera in "portrait" orietnation ( long side ofthe format pointing up and down)
b) shoots frames with lots and lots of overlap, like maybe 60% overlap of the previous frame. The downside of this is that shooting takes a little longer, you'll make your computer work harder and you'll eat up HDD storage space. The upside it you'll have more information to work with and stitching programs like that.
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April 18, 2012, 10:55:33 AM »
There are some good tips in this thread. Personally, I prefer not to do panos handheld but when I do I will often take the same pano multiple times to ensure that at least one version stitches properly. This will help protect against errors caused by improper rotation around the nodal point or bad images (e.g., one image of the series is blurry, etc.).
Some other things to consider -- it's hard to tell from your images, but if you are shooting with a small digital rangefinder type camera, your tripod looks bulkier than is perhaps necessary. You might get by with a lighter one. Also if the maximum width you are going for is 30-40 inches it may be feasible to just take a regular picture and crop the top/bottom of the frame. On my 5dII, a 30 inch panorama would still yield a respectable 180dpi print.
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April 18, 2012, 11:39:40 AM »
I trust this comment is not regarded as entirely facetious: I suggest you ask your accompanying wife to carry your (light-weight) tripod when on your sight-seeing "rounds." A sling-over-the-shoulder perhaps.
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April 19, 2012, 12:32:59 PM »
Quote from: dzeanah on April 18, 2012, 06:55:02 AM
Thanks for the comments, folks. Lots to think about and test/practice.
And just to be clear: when we're talking about rotating around the nodal point, what I'm actually trying to do is pivot on the point of the lens where the aperture blades are, right?
John Houghton's site is weighted toward VR panos but the principle of NPP alignment is the same. In fact it's even more critical for VR panos.
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April 19, 2012, 02:55:35 PM »
Since most of my shooting is landscapes from afar I've changed to 100% handheld with my IS Canon 70-200 lens. I've found that sharpness is no issue at ISO 400-800. The best kept "secret" is having a grid focus screen, as someone pointed out earlier in this topic, and lots of overlapping. I try to overlap at least 60% each shot. The grid focus screen allows me instant leveling with the horizon and the vertical bars on the grid makes the overlapping shots very easy to judge during the shooting.
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May 29, 2012, 01:48:52 PM »
I shoot a lot of panoramas and have never shot one in the day time with a tripod. I am careful and generally shoot several sets if I really like the subject. I still will end up with the odd frame out of location and have to crop more than I like. That is an acceptable penalty for not having to lug a tripod everywhere I go (walking). I use PS Elements and AutoPanoPro for most of my stitching. I think if you practice rotating the camera about it's own axis instead of swinging it about, you'll find that you can shoot 90% of your images offhand. You could write a decent article on all the small things we do to get a decent set of pictures for stitching, practice helps. I will admit that I keep a tripod in the car incase I ever run across that award winning composition but that just hasn't happened yet. I'm also a total amateur and never sell anything. If I were doing this with the intent of taking someones money for the product, I might actually use a tripod.
Last weekend I shot a pictograph panel by simply walking the panel and clicking off 9 (x3 for HDR) frames. That was 27 frames shot offhand and first run through an HDR program and then stitched. I was impressed how well the APP software stitched the panel considering how much I must have been off in angle and distance. Software is definately getting better..
Some of my panos (including the pictograph) out
, all shot off hand. Again I'm just a duffer taking the odd pano while on vacation without lugging a tripod all over the place.
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May 29, 2012, 04:08:11 PM »
Last week I spent 2 days shooting pans at the north rim of the Grand Canyon. My tripod never left the car. Many of the vantage points would not have been possible with a tripod anyway. And the hiking to those points wouldn't be possible for me carrying the extra weight. So far none of the images I've reviewed would have been improved significantly with the tripod and many would have been missed due to the time involved setting it up. So for my money the grid viewing screen, IS lens, and the exceptional stitching in CS5 is more than good enough to produce 84" long pans.
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May 29, 2012, 11:03:02 PM »
I do it regularly and during events where folks and objects are moving, too.
Part of the technique is to practice, practice, and practice some more. Visualize the scene and look through the camera and do a fast look-around through the viewfinder to get an idea of the best overlap and focal length. If you have a grid, so much the better--it helps with the overlap and with keeping the horizon somewhat aligned.. Shoot the camera vertically. Overlap 40-50 percent, especially with wide angle lenses. Longer lenses work with 15-25 per overlap. Your results will always vary. Sometimes, you'll need to shoot a second series of images to have plenty to stitch, perhaps using a different focal length.
So far, between Photoshop CS 5.5 & 6 and Autopano Pro, I can usually get something quite useable. Sometimes, I've got to distort the edges of the images and fill in missing edges, but for the most part, if you shoot a bit loose, you should have room to crop.
Some of the images I've done end up 50-60 and even 120 inches long, depending upon the lens used. The longer the focal length you shoot, the longer the pano. Shorter lenses give you more breathing room on the edges for cropping.
One of the panos I did at a dedication a few weeks ago ended up with about 20-25 frames and covered about 270 degrees. Shot it using about 28mm and camera hand held vertically. Final image was about 12x48 once cropped. Sometimes, with people moving, you've got to pull in a frame from the shoot to drop in to make sure the person isn't half-missing. In the dynamics where I shoot, that's one of the hazards and I deal with the stitching "error" as I find them.
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If you confine your panorama shooting to day light, you'll be OK with handheld captures.
As the other posters state, practice until you get it right, and use enough overlap.
However, your tripod seems small and light enough, so if you take it with you, you can shoot also at night.
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Calcium is the fifth most common element in the body. It is a fundamental element necessary to form electrical gradients across membranes, an essential cofactor for many enzymes, and the main constituent in bone. Under normal physiologic conditions, the concentration of calcium in serum and in cells is tightly controlled.
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AMES — While the injuries continue to pile up for the Iowa State football team, some of the walking wounded could be making their way back.
Quarterback Sam Richardson, who missed two-plus quarters with a head and neck injury against No. 18 Oklahoma State, is penciled in as the starter against Kansas State (2:30 p.m., FS1) on Saturday. Meanwhile, running back Aaron Wimberly (hamstring) and linebacker Luke Knott (hip) are day-to-day. Their status is uncertain, but a return isn't out of the question at this point.
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"When injuries crop up and you can't play a guy and everything gets thrown out of whack, there is a high level of frustration," Rhoads said.
Injuries are one reason for why ISU's season hasn't gone as planned. The Cyclones (1-6, 0-4 Big 12) admit it, but that's where it stops.
"You can say that you are snake bitten, but you can't use it as an excuse," running back Jeff Woody said. "You can't use it as a crutch. You've got to have guys that are able to step in and execute at a high level, too."
If any Cyclone would classify as snake bitten, it's Richardson. Since spraining his ankle in the season opener, he's been dealing with an assortment of injuries. His latest came when he was trying to slide and was hit in the upper back from behind by Oklahoma State defensive end Tyler Johnson in the second quarter. He never returned to the game, but did practice on Sunday.
The depth chart may list him as a co-starter with Grant Rohach, but Rhoads said Richardson will start if he can go.
"(The) plan would be to go through the week and make sure he is 100 percent off this recent injury and can operate the offense," Rhoads said.
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The return of Wimberly certainly would help. He leads the Cyclones with 388 rushing yards. He sat out the Oklahoma State contest, but did jog on Sunday. How his hamstring responds to treatment will dictate if he plays against the Wildcats (3-4, 1-3).
Knott is in a similar position. He's played through the hip injury all season, racking up 45 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss. An extended period of rest may be the only way it will heal, Rhoads said.
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"He is better," Rhoads said. "He'll be day to day, much like Aaron, (not sure) how much we'll be able to use him this Saturday."
ISU will be without wide receiver Jarvis West, who suffered an MCL sprain against Oklahoma State. He is the fourth player to succumb to the injury this season.
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Fluke interceptions? So all the QBs in the past (including Henne and Moore in the recent past) threw real interceptions. But Tannehills interceptions really don't count? I bet they have a notation in the stat sheet: *fluke interceptions
Fluke interceptions? So all the QBs in the past (including Henne and Moore in the recent past) threw real interceptions. But Tannehills interceptions really don't count? I bet they have a notation in the stat sheet: *fluke interceptions
also... yea, I'd classify them as flukes... tell you what... If were to have approached you saturday night, and bet you $35,000, that ryan tannehill would throw three interceptions and two of them would come from batted balls by a DL, what would you have said to me?
Tipped balls at the LOS can't happen. The likely thing to happen is it hangs up in the air over the D Line and LBs. It's a 50/50 it's going to get picked off. It would be like running across the highway without looking, you might get hit you might not. Not a place you want to be and it's no fluke if you get run over.
Some things went right also. Early Texans TD pass ruled out of bounds, early passes they dropped. The fumble Tannehill had that bounced right to Thomas. Fumble right before FG attempt that Martin recovered.
Bottom line 3 INTs, no TDs. No offensive TDs. I can make a case that Tannehill did some good things. I can take some positives away, like they were in that game for the 1st 20+ minutes or so against a good team. Still I can't wait for next week and hope they can wash the taste of this loss out with a win over Oakland. 4 turnovers, no TDs is tough for me to live with.
If you really expected us to win, then you are living in a bubble. I am a huge fan and always stand behind my team, but I knew there was no WAY in hell we were pulling off a win. I do see us beating the Raiders, Bills, Jets, Cards, Rams and Seattle. But for us to beat Houston it was gonna take a Cam Newton type game from Tannehill.
I hate Dolphins fans so I'm going to spend my free time on a Dolphins fans message board. Makes sense.
Batted balles were an issue in College... An issue in preseason... An issue in the First game... if you don't think this is at least a 'concern' you are in denial.
is there no room for a middle ground here at finheaven? I swear, it seems like two prevalient gangs here. the **** yous.. and **** you2s. Difference? one wears the banner of 'be a good fan and support the team no matter what" and the other has torn up thier banner, **** on it, and said here **** you.
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For the first kills on a major boss at Normal difficulty; you are guaranteed 2 rares as drops (regardless of MF etc.) Also a comment here suggests that one of them will be a class specific rare, which would explain the fist weapon drops for monks.
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