Can't believe it's been a whole month already...

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Jeff, really great shots and I love the panoramas, how did you do those. Did you stitch a bunch of digital photos together? Very nice job!

jeff, great pics! makes me want to go back NOW!

Jeff, Gosh the Panoramas make you feel like you are right there. Great Job. thanks for sharing!!!!!

Jeff, how did you do the panoramas? The photos are great..

Will be there in 24 hours....ahhhhh!!

Jeff, great shots. Thanks for sharing. I'm also interested in how you did the panoramas. A couple of comments, you should try using a lower speed film 100 or 200 ASA, there's alot of grain in your pictures.

The other thing you might want to try is tweaking the color balance, contrast and brightness, when you convert to digital you loss alot of the highlights from the 35mm. It drives me crazy how washed out the pictures look after you scan them. I've learned to up the contrast and brightness to compensate. On the underwater shots you need to change the color balance also or the you loss most of the colors

Thx for the kind comments, yeah, it is prime day-dreaming stuff while stuck here at work..

The panoramics were made with an Olympus 360L (basic 1.3 megapixel digital camera) and then strung together using that Pixaround software. They come put pretty nice and it's very easy once you get the hang of it. You take the pics individually (usually 2 - 4, but you can take a whole 360 degrees if you want) and then put them together later.

The underwater shots were made with a 35mm, scanned I believe, by the photo store. (It's my Dad's new camera). Yeah, I need to play around with Photoshop to bring out the colors better.

Cecil, "up the contrast and brightness.." - are you talking about before scanning the pictures or after?

Jeff, yes. I do it both ways during the scanning process and now that I'm learning Adobe Photoshop after there're scanned (or on all digital pictures). I find digital camera pictures always need some tweeking to look good or they look washed out.