Main Living Room
Seifuso Villa (清風荘)
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Continuing with last fall's visit to Kyoto's visually-rich Seifuso Villa (清風荘), where the last installment (“From the Garden to the House at the Seifuso Villa”) left us finally inside the main house that has gone mostly unseen so far except for its photogenic entrance foyer.
The grounds are opened to the public for a few days every year or two, but the house is not normally open to the public at all, so it was a wonderful opportunity to have an unrestricted tour.
The photo above is a 9-image panorama that you can scroll from side to side. It's got quite a bit of geometric distortion that I wish I could have corrected, but it's not bad for the amount of work I put into it (which is almost none: I selected the photos in Lightroom, invoked “Merge as Panorama in Photoshop”, and it did what it wanted. I made one small touch-up to the result, and here we are.)
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/5.6, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Old Glass
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/400 sec, f/1.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Master Bedroom
for the master of the house
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/160 sec, f/3.2, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Ripply Shadows
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/200 sec, f/1.8, ISO 720 — map & image data — nearby photos
Table with a Chinese Vibe
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/50 sec, f/3.2, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Tabletop
Nikon D4 + Voigtländer 125mm f/2.5 — 1/250 sec, f/2.5, ISO 5000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Inlaid Shell
A section of this tabletop is the item in the other day's A Red, Squiggly, Fairly Blotchy “What am I?” Quiz. Unfortunately, nobody got it right. I was hoping someone would be able to tell me how the red squiggly blotches came to be. The tabletop was perfectly smooth, so I'm sure a lot of sanding was involved.
Another upstairs room with an equally-impressive view had two of the same table. Here's a wigglegram showing the view:
写真の上をマウスで左右にゆっくり動かすと「３D」な感じが出ます。
If this looks familiar it's because one of the frames appeared in an article a couple of months ago, at the start of this post.
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/640 sec, f/1.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Nice View of the Lawn and Part of the Garden
(The garden was covered in this post)
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/320 sec, f/1.4, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Paul Taking the Same Shot
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 — 1/200 sec, f/1.8, ISO 6400 — map & image data — nearby photos
Old Light Switches
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/50 sec, f/1.8, ISO 1000 — map & image data — nearby photos
Random Room
Nikon D4 + Nikkor 24mm f/1.4 — 1/50 sec, f/1.8, ISO 100 — map & image data — nearby photos
Large Room Now Used for Conferences
From Rockport Tx
Nice! really like the window shadow image.
I shoot a ton of multi image/row panoramas.
I find that hugin does a great job of stitching.
hugin combined with PS ‘s adaptive wide angle filter works very well on distortion.
My version of PS (CS5) doesn’t seem to have the wide-angle filter thing )-: —Jeffrey
About the Tabletop with “Inlaid Shell”, most probably it was finished using technique for lacquerware. Similar patterns could be seen here:
http://www.artisticnippon.com/product/tsugaru_lacquerware/tsugaru_shiruwan.html
Basically it is done using lacquer paint, dyed with various pigments and/or minerals. About the blotches, I don’t know if it is due to some chemical reaction, or if each is hand-painted, or if dents are first carved for retaining red and/or white lacquer paints. Nevertheless, at the end, many layers of clear lacquer are applied, and then sanded & polished to give the final smooth finish. (& of course, the “Inlaid Shells” are set before putting the multiple layers of clear lacquer.)
Hope this clear the puzzle in your mind.
Maybe this webpage says better on how lacquerware is made:
http://korriganlacquerware.storenvy.com/how-to-make-lacquerware
🙂