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p.13 #1Pano-mania
Thanks for the comments Thrice and CampX.
Wonderful panos from you both too ! Love that stadium shot and the one with the litte girl.
Wonderful panos from you both too ! Love that stadium shot and the one with the litte girl.
Jul 24, 2011 at 11:00 PM
p.13 #3Pano-mania
Thrice, CampX, HawaiianOnline, Obik, Ajay and mMontag -- great stuff! Some outstanding photos.
Here's one I cross-posted on the Yashica 35-70 thread.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/backyardtwilightpano-2-2.jpg
And a couple that actually made me money for a change!
The current California Gift Show at the LA Convention Center's South Hall. Handheld, no less, through windows! 10 and 11 shot panos, Canon 24-70L.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/CAGiftShowpano-2-2-2.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/CentralAislepano-2-2.jpg
Here's one I cross-posted on the Yashica 35-70 thread.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/backyardtwilightpano-2-2.jpg
And a couple that actually made me money for a change!
The current California Gift Show at the LA Convention Center's South Hall. Handheld, no less, through windows! 10 and 11 shot panos, Canon 24-70L.http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/CAGiftShowpano-2-2-2.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c80/gunzorro/CentralAislepano-2-2.jpg
Jul 25, 2011 at 08:40 AM
p.13 #4Pano-mania
thrice wrote:
wow CampX, love the human touch
Thanks Thrice, thats my 6 year old daughter, Maya. She's my little explorer, goes everywhere with me. Getting her to stand still long enough to do a couple of frames on the right end of the stitch was fun!
wow CampX, love the human touch
Thanks Thrice, thats my 6 year old daughter, Maya. She's my little explorer, goes everywhere with me. Getting her to stand still long enough to do a couple of frames on the right end of the stitch was fun!
Jul 25, 2011 at 10:10 AM
p.13 #5Pano-mania
5 shots. Yashica 35-70mm f3.5-4.8 at 35mm, f8. Stitched in ICE. Handheld.
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5976769812_8a51350c1d_o.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6125/5976769812_8a51350c1d_o.jpg
Jul 25, 2011 at 09:04 PM
p.13 #6Pano-mania
This shot was taken a decade ago with a 3 mp Canon G-1 and equally ancient software.
The Eastern slope of the Southern Sierra, the Owens River Valley
See Page 9 Post #2 of this thread for this image
I am returning this month to see if I can capture a similar shot with high quality dSLR equipment.
Mike K
Gunzorro wrote:
WOW!
It looks fake -- and I mean that in a complimentary way! Like an illustration. What a clear day.
I hope you can update this pano, even if it is hazy. The comparison would be great to see.
Gunzorro, It is hard to appreciate it when I took the original (Page 9 post #2 in this thread) but that really was an exceptionally clear morning in 2002. Here is the update taken with 5DII and 135L, a bit hazier weather, 28 shots, lots of pixels:
http://www.fototime.com/DCAA97B49002451/orig.jpg
Very large panos like this really require a careful leveling of the rotation, or you will end up with the image curving upwards or downwards quite a lot. Thus the camera cannot be pointed downwards to capture more foreground. Almost half of the captured image is sky, and much of that is cropped away. The best one can do is shoot in portrait mode to capture more vertical information. I used a longer focal length prime lens (135L, one of Canon's better lenses) to get good mountain detail, but this sacrificed valley foreground, especially in the panos center region. This seems like an inherent compromise, as one is shooting a large stitched pano for the added detail, but the longer focal length lens also limits the vertical fov.
A friend pointed out that if had used a 90mm Tilt/Shift downward shifted I could have gotten more valley into the shot. I guess one could also do two horizontal rows and stitched that. I would need some additional hardware for that approach. Any other suggestions?
Mike K
The Eastern slope of the Southern Sierra, the Owens River Valley
See Page 9 Post #2 of this thread for this image
I am returning this month to see if I can capture a similar shot with high quality dSLR equipment.
Mike K
Gunzorro wrote:
WOW!
It looks fake -- and I mean that in a complimentary way! Like an illustration.
What a clear day.I hope you can update this pano, even if it is hazy. The comparison would be great to see.
Gunzorro, It is hard to appreciate it when I took the original (Page 9 post #2 in this thread) but that really was an exceptionally clear morning in 2002. Here is the update taken with 5DII and 135L, a bit hazier weather, 28 shots, lots of pixels:
http://www.fototime.com/DCAA97B49002451/orig.jpg
Very large panos like this really require a careful leveling of the rotation, or you will end up with the image curving upwards or downwards quite a lot. Thus the camera cannot be pointed downwards to capture more foreground. Almost half of the captured image is sky, and much of that is cropped away. The best one can do is shoot in portrait mode to capture more vertical information. I used a longer focal length prime lens (135L, one of Canon's better lenses) to get good mountain detail, but this sacrificed valley foreground, especially in the panos center region. This seems like an inherent compromise, as one is shooting a large stitched pano for the added detail, but the longer focal length lens also limits the vertical fov.
A friend pointed out that if had used a 90mm Tilt/Shift downward shifted I could have gotten more valley into the shot. I guess one could also do two horizontal rows and stitched that. I would need some additional hardware for that approach. Any other suggestions?
Mike K
Jul 25, 2011 at 10:11 PM
p.13 #7Pano-mania
Mike -- Excellent follow-up shot. Yes, it would be interesting to see a shifted 90mm lens, getting more of the valley. Still, this is awesome as it stands.
Jul 25, 2011 at 11:20 PM
p.13 #9Pano-mania
RustyBug wrote:
Mike ... about how wide is that AOV degrees?
about 160-165 deg. A few more vertical panels showing the range I was standing on would have been 180.
Mike ... about how wide is that AOV degrees?
about 160-165 deg. A few more vertical panels showing the range I was standing on would have been 180.
Jul 26, 2011 at 10:44 AM
p.13 #10Pano-mania
Nicely done.
How do you stitch to keep everything looking straight. I'm good (retentively so) on leveling, but I can't seem to get PS to play nice with my captures when I try to go really wide like that.
How do you stitch to keep everything looking straight. I'm good (retentively so) on leveling, but I can't seem to get PS to play nice with my captures when I try to go really wide like that.
Jul 26, 2011 at 10:55 AM
p.13 #11Pano-mania
Here's my first ICE stitch using 7 frames from my Panasonix ZS-1:
http://www.imaginenature.com/P1060375_stitch_final_web2.jpg
http://www.imaginenature.com/P1060375_stitch_final_web2.jpg
Jul 26, 2011 at 07:06 PM
p.13 #12Pano-mania
RustyBug wrote:
Nicely done.
How do you stitch to keep everything looking straight. I'm good (retentively so) on leveling, but I can't seem to get PS to play nice with my captures when I try to go really wide like that.
I usually use Auto pano pro and have to save it in PSD as the files are too large for TIFF format. I find that if I don't overlap by 1/3 frame the software often screws up the stitch. 1/4 frame is not enough. On my camera I use the grid feature that divides the LCD into a 3x3 grid which makes estimating the amount of rotation for overlap very easy.
See thread in this forum on "stitching software".
Mike K
Nicely done.
How do you stitch to keep everything looking straight. I'm good (retentively so) on leveling, but I can't seem to get PS to play nice with my captures when I try to go really wide like that.
I usually use Auto pano pro and have to save it in PSD as the files are too large for TIFF format. I find that if I don't overlap by 1/3 frame the software often screws up the stitch. 1/4 frame is not enough. On my camera I use the grid feature that divides the LCD into a 3x3 grid which makes estimating the amount of rotation for overlap very easy.
See thread in this forum on "stitching software".
Mike K
Jul 26, 2011 at 08:49 PM
p.13 #13Pano-mania
Here's a set I did in Hawaii last week, all with the 5DmkII and Zeiss 21mm f/2.8
Pali Lookout by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Diamond Head Crater by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Diamond Head Crater by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
This one was a vertical pano, 7 or 8 frames stitched together I think.
Makapuu Point by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Pali Lookout by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Diamond Head Crater by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Diamond Head Crater by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
This one was a vertical pano, 7 or 8 frames stitched together I think.
Makapuu Point by Abram Goglanian, on Flickr
Jul 26, 2011 at 10:06 PM
p.13 #14Pano-mania
here's a quick stitch i did to test out the hugin software (quite impressed). roughly 80 degrees (more boring parts cropped out from a 200 degree pano) with the contax g 35/2 and a sony NEX-3:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6143/5979919557_0057efff47_o.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6143/5979919557_0057efff47_o.jpg
Jul 26, 2011 at 10:41 PM
p.13 #15Pano-mania
A stitch of 4 6x6 frames from Iceland shot on RVP100F with my Hasselblad:
http://thomaskjaer.com/dump/icelandpano2-1200.jpg
And here a three frame version of it without the film borders removed:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5595523604_a7550a49af_b.jpg
http://thomaskjaer.com/dump/icelandpano2-1200.jpg
And here a three frame version of it without the film borders removed:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5227/5595523604_a7550a49af_b.jpg
Jul 27, 2011 at 02:18 AM
p.13 #18Pano-mania
I have to agree, that is just awesome! Gotta love Velvia
Jul 27, 2011 at 08:53 AM
p.13 #19Pano-mania
i feel 1/3 is marginal for completely reliable stitching. 1/2 is 100% reliable even until very difficult situations with moving elements that have to be rendered without ghosting.
Herb...
Mike K wrote:
I find that if I don't overlap by 1/3 frame the software often screws up the stitch. 1/4 frame is not enough. On my camera I use the grid feature that divides the LCD into a 3x3 grid which makes estimating the amount of rotation for overlap very easy.
Herb...
Mike K wrote:
I find that if I don't overlap by 1/3 frame the software often screws up the stitch. 1/4 frame is not enough. On my camera I use the grid feature that divides the LCD into a 3x3 grid which makes estimating the amount of rotation for overlap very easy.
Jul 27, 2011 at 09:01 AM
p.13 #20Pano-mania
Thanks AbramG! Velvia is one of the favorites here as well.
Jul 27, 2011 at 11:04 AM