Biography:24 year old, born and bred in Rotherham. I like to get out a lot (as long as it's out of Rotherham) I've sailed the Atlantic, climbed Meru Peak in Tanzania and spent 2 months trekking through the jungle in Borneo
I work for a company that makes precast concrete building decor.
we have molds made of rubber and/or fiberglass. and apply a layer of fiber reinforced concrete to them. about 1 inch thick. after the concrete cures we take the piece out and voila: a column or a fireplace mantle or many other things.
sometimes we use styrofoam to make pieces for the outsides of buildings and mostly casinos.
at one time or another I have done just about everything here.
I have made the master pieces to make molds off of. made molds, parts, done deliveries.
now im the autocad engineer.
thats fancy for: I spend most of my time now on the net.
before here I did the same thing for another company that closed and most of its employees formed the one im at now.
I have in some way been associated with making parts for almost every major casino on the vegas strip and have also done work on props that were in films.
I don't know if this will be of any use to you, but I can outline my process for shooting panoramas:
1. Use a tripod
2. Use a fixed aperture, so depth-of-field doesn't vary between shots (especially if you are using autofocus)
3. Give your images a generous overlap - about 25% to 40%. This will give Photoshop plenty to work with
4. In Photoshop, select File > Automate > Photomerge
5. In the Photomerge dialog box, browse to and select the images to make up your panorama.
Photoshop creates one multilayer image from the source images, adding layer masks as needed to create optimal blending where the images overlap. You can edit the layer masks or add adjustment layers to further fine tune the different areas of the panorama.
In answer to your second question: yes, traditional artwork is just as welcome at BioRUST as digital/computer generated stuff. Just post it in the 2D Artwork Gallery.