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Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/2500 sec, f/2.5, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Lovely Day at the Kyoto Imperial Palace
these young ladies were quite the attraction for photo ops
I visited the Kyoto Imperial Palace for the first time yesterday, and these three young college students also enjoying the sites were kind enough to pose for a wigglegram for me. The frame above is the last in the series, after they broke out in a smile at the rapid-fire sound of my camera capturing frames at the zippy pace of 10 per second.
昨日京都御所でこの大学生の美人達はポーズしてくれて、僕はウイグルグラムを作りました。以下の写真の上にマウスをあっちこっちしてね！
Here's the wigglegram:
写真の上をマウスで左右にゆっくり動かすといろいろな撮影効果を楽しむことができます。
Kimono are almost always photogenic, which is why they tend to appear in my wigglegrams, such as this one and this one.
Because the individual frames are taken manually (as I sweep myself and the camera from one side to the other while the camera fires a burst of 10 to 20 frames), they're all jumbled and misaligned, so before a wigglegram can be made I must somehow line them all up. This is a royal pain to try to do manually in Lightroom, so for a while I had a system where I used some features of the Hugin photo stitcher that sometimes worked like magic, but more often gave unusable Salvador-Dali like results.
So I finally bit the bullet and dusted off my trigonometry and built a Lightroom plugin that allows me to straight and crop the group automatically. The concept was simple, I thought, but it turns out that converting natural thoughts of alignment and rotation do not map at all to how Lightroom does it internally, and wrapping my brain around it enough to bridge the gap was one of the hardest, most frustrating things I've attempted in a very long time. Frankly, my brain is just not cut out for math. (This, despite my undergraduate degree officially being in math.)
Anyway, the upshot is that now there's much less friction for me to make wigglegrams, so I plan to post more of them.
To be continued...