About the Image(s)

This was a fun project. I took a lot of hyper images in Amsterdam, using the cha-cha method. Mostly architectural and cityscapes. This was a night image of the corner of Leidsestraat and Korte Leidsedwarsstraat. At street level, nothing was usable due to too much movement, so I concentrated on the buildings. I framed the shots to get as much as I could, and edited out the chaos. This shot also had a lot of overhead wires. There was no way to make them match up in the hyper images, so I did my best to edit them out. There are still some anomalies at the top corner of the building, but the dark, saturated color absorbs most of it.

I started by combining the left and right images in 3dSteroid Pro. I tried doing some processing in Samsung Photo Editor, but I ended up not using those. I moved the images to SPM to crop, and readjust the window and color values. Next I used the gimp to try various options for editing out the anomalies and adjusting the color to look natural. The best of these involved desaturating the image and squashing the perspective to accentuate the parts that needed edits, then restoring the perspective and replacing the color using the gradient map tool, and the 'incandescent' preset. I wasn't happy with the result, so I decided to abandon reality. I went back to the squashed, desaturated version, and started from there. First I edited out everything but the main building and transparency. Then I edited a few more of the anomalies like light imbalance and wire fragments to make it as clean as possible. Next I imported the left and right frames from a stereoscopic light painting I took with the Lumix stereo M-4/3 lens and LH3. I adjusted the light painting to fall behind the building. I again used the gradient map, but this time with a bolder color choice.Then I went back and adjusted the colors and contrast of all the layers until I was happy. Finally I used the drop shadow filter at 0 degrees and 300px, to give the building a green glow. In the end, I brought back about 2/3 of the original perspective to make it look almost believable.