Again it has been a while since I updated the wallpapers page with any new wallpapers, so today is the day I’m adding two new for you :) And since I like to have a theme each time I add some, the today theme is clouds :)

As always you can download them and many more from the wallpapers page here.

I love how easy it is to do panoramas with the tilt shift lens. No distortions, no need for special tripod head, no need to move the camera. Just shift to one side, that to the other, and it’s done :) I started to write a small review on the 17m TSE Canon lens, and probably will also do few guides on using a tilt shift lens, but don’t really know when. Still trying to catch up after the last trip, and another one is coming up in few days. This will be a busy year for me :)

This is a three shot panorama, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

I really would like to see a huge ship passing through the Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas bridge. Could make for a great photo :)

This is a long exposure, taken with a 10 stop ND filter (Formatt-Hitech firecrast filter). Single exposure, edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Recently I changed to a new phone, and together with it I also got the Gear VR headset. So of course I wanted to try it out also with my own photos, but I did not really had any. So today I went to get some new 360 shots, and here is one of them. You can look around in it a little further down in this post, or if you have a VR headset, you can download the source image and view it directly.

For the Gear VR, you just have to:
– connect your phone to a PC
– find the Oculus folder in the root of the phone storage
– create a 360Photos folder, if it’s not there
– copy the photo into the folder
– put the phone into the headset, and open the Oculus 360 Photos app
– choose See all from the first selection and the My photos from the second
– choose the 360Photos folder and choose the photo you want to view

I have no idea how to do it in other VR headsets, as I only have the Gear VR, but I think it will be similar.

Here you can see the whole 360 panorama, created from 4 shots (8mm fish-eye lens). Edited in Lightroom, PTgui, Photoshop and Pano2VR.

And here you can look around in it. Just use your mouse to drag the view around and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out.

I really like this style of composition. Having the lamp included give the photo a very nice foreground element. One just has to be very careful not to catch many lens flares from the lamp, as that really easy, especially with strong laps as the ones in Amsterdam.

This is mostly a single exposure, with a second one used to darken few areas. Edited in Lightroom and Photoshop.