1st 3 out of PTGui Pano tool.
From MS Company meeting last month.
No reading how, just wanted to see what I could whip out righ off the Bat, so to speak.
jpegs only.

C&C Welcome.

Is this in the wrong Forum?

Very nice! First one is my favorite.

Images are great.
Tell us a little about what goes into each image.
How many jpegs, lens mm and how long to process each pano

Thanks,
The 1st one is around 15 frames with a 24mm in vertical. as these are my 1st images using PTGui, I still have ALOT to learn. I think the 1st one is pinched to much, maybe used to many images as there was alot of overlap between images.
Maybe I will revisit it and try the blend using every other image.

2 and 3 are also with the 24mm in Vertical mode. 6-7 images.
I then tweaked them in CS3 using highlight and shadow adjustment to help with the darkness under the roof and the highlights of the sky, even hand painted some burning to help where I thought it was needed.

What I wanted to express was the amount of rigging tied into the roof to support all of the truss's for lighting and the truss's that were used to create the light boxes for the projection.
You can see where the outside of the large black boxes are on there own motors so the can travel up and down to allow light to get on the grass when not in use. plus they can run the sprinklers.

The detail is amazing.
What was the overlap in degrees between 15 frames in image 1 and the 6-7 in image 2 & 3. Presumably you used a panoramic head to help with the overlaps.

And of the final image in 1,2 & 3 whats the field of view in degrees in each final image.
Is it more than 180 degrees.

Thanks. If I had to guess the overlaps in 1 was around 8-9 degrees.
based on my guess of the angle divided by 15.
Images 2 and 3 are covering around the same angle, but only shot 9 images to cover that angle.
I'm really bad at the math and like I said, this was my 1st attempt using this pano program, not much more then load and go. never read anything in the help file yet.
Played with the composition in the preview, still trying to figure out what the main changes are when using the Horz. and vert. sliders other then what I see. then just slid them around to what I felt look best.

I know I am missing out on alot that is available to me with this program, but i am a very impatiant person, hell, it takes alot for me just to type it all up with 3 fingers

I'm limited on time as work is very slow right now, and with wife at work and all the home chores, rather experiment then read .

By the way, these are all handheld, shot with my D3 and my old 24mm 2.8.
Thanks again for the questions.

Great result though.
And thanks for the answers.

Nice! I was sitting right around the third base line, just to the left of the batter's box.

showpro wrote:
Nice! I was sitting right around the third base line, just to the left of the batter's box.

Cool, what was your gig?

I'm a Microsoft employee!

showpro wrote:
I'm a Microsoft employee!

Oh. right, I thought you might have been show crew
I mean with a name like Showpro
I was the onstage handheld camera Op. for the event.

My Images

Nice work.

Actually, I used to be in the biz. Showpro comes from a software package I wrote for myself and then marketed, called ShowPro MIDI. I don't do that anymore, but the vestige of the Web site can be seen here: http://home.comcast.net/~showpromidi/

Speaking of ptgui, what do you think of these panos? Unfortunately, I cannot post them here, because they are 3D. Citroen C4 Coupe, Toyota iQ and Porsche Cayman S

From my camera phone:

@Kirk
So if I was going to do the same in PTGui,
what would your advice be?
Or if you went to the same venue, what would you do different?

Great Panos beautifully executed.

I am just started with PTGUI too - I love it...

I am also just starting with high definition panos which add another dimention and is great fun to do.

The HD process =
Take the pano shots
Stitch 'em with PTGui
Take 'em apart with KRpano
View with Flash player

If you want to extend or augment the PTGui features have a look at krpano.com

This is the awsome gigapano that inspired me to get PTGui & Krpano

Leoric wrote:
Speaking of ptgui, what do you think of these panos? Unfortunately, I cannot post them here, because they are 3D. Citroen C4 Coupe, Toyota iQ and Porsche Cayman S


I posted my suggestion of krpano before I saw yours - They are great!

I hope this does not hijack the thread - It is intended to encourage Kirk to go further, if he hasn't seen this technique...

Donald. Absolutely Agreed on that.
That Gigapano is inspirational.
Did you check and confirm if PTGui was used on that one?
I have one or two venues that would definitely benefit from the treatment.
But the resources necessary - its another story

The creator stated:
[QUOTE]
-1200 raw pics Canon 5D MK II FL 100mm -> 310 for full sphere
-exposure between 15 sec. and 1/2 sec
-focus stacking and 3 wb settings (3000k, 5500k, 9000k)
-NN5 -PTGui
-3 days pc running to calc the sphere -cube size 32768x32768
-8 hours photoshooting
-2 month to combine the different focusing layers ,editing the WB and exposure layers
[/QUOTE]


Sorry to be a guilty party but please do not let us hijack this thread...