The League

Reductio ad absurdum.

by David Ryan · January 22, 2013

David Ryan

David Ryan is a boat builder and USCG licensed master captain. He is the owner of Sailing Montauk and skipper of Montauk''s charter sailing catamaran MON TIKI You can follow him on Twitter @CaptDavidRyan

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Jonathan McLeod says:

January 22, 2013 at 12:38 pm

I love this.Report
- David Ryan in reply to Jonathan McLeod says:
  
  January 22, 2013 at 12:51 pm
  
  Thanks! 🙂
  
  In it’s own way it’s as garish as the sunset photo I posted the day before, but then I’ve never been one for subtlety.
  
  Speaking of ham-fisted, here’s a great 90 second montage of One-point perspective from Stanley Kubric:
  
  http://youtu.be/dXq5rcY4_TUReport
  - Glyph in reply to David Ryan says:
    
    January 22, 2013 at 4:57 pm
    
    That montage is terrific!
    
    In case it gets taken down, I really like this mash-up someone did – setting footage from Kubrick’s 2001 to the Banshees’ “Dazzle” – it’s appropriately epically trippy and dramatic, way better than the original video…and please, let’s not debate copyright, just enjoy! 🙂
    
    http://youtu.be/S3sqvxnJ3CwReport
Annelid Gustator says:

January 22, 2013 at 2:26 pm

So what you’re saying is that the new camera is working out?Report
- David Ryan in reply to Annelid Gustator says:
  
  January 22, 2013 at 3:32 pm
  
  Yes! It’s working out very nicely. I like writing well enough, but I like not writing too!Report
Roger says:

January 22, 2013 at 4:13 pm

Your pictures inspire me to paint. That says it all.Report
- David Ryan in reply to Roger says:
  
  January 22, 2013 at 4:47 pm
  
  Thanks, Roger! That’s about as nice a thing as a person could say. 🙂Report
BlaiseP says:

January 22, 2013 at 5:01 pm

Nice perspective work.

I do a lot of panorama work. I’ve had surprisingly good luck shooting panorama on my smart phone. I tried for years, lenses, knitting together separate frames, to no avail. Finally broke down and got a camera which did pano shots. Couldn’t be happier.Report
- David Ryan in reply to BlaiseP says:
  
  January 22, 2013 at 9:56 pm
  
  You might remember I was doing stitched together panoramas of the boat-shop last Winter, and yes, it’s a lot of work, even just to get an obviously patch-worked result.
  
  My frustration with very wide aspect ratios is where to show them. As mentioned previously, they work well for websites, but outside of that, very few things lend themselves to long photos. Phil Bolger wrote about that in one of my favorite passages of his…Report
  - BlaiseP in reply to David Ryan says:
    
    January 22, 2013 at 10:06 pm
    
    Yes, I do remember that image. I use Google’s image storage, very convenient and cost-effective.
    
    It’s not difficult to have two panos printed on the same big sheet, have a framing shop cut them apart and mount them.Report
  - Lyle in reply to David Ryan says:
    
    January 23, 2013 at 10:26 am
    
    I assume you have looked at giga-pan which is a way to get huge panoramas, one puts a digital camera on a special tripod mount and the software takes a bunch of pictures and pastes them together. (The key is that the tripod mount aims the camera by computer control, so that the software to make the panorama has an easier task)Report