All the shots on this website are stitched with the exception of the 'dream project':
www.timelessjewishart.com
This is a 70 megapixel stitch:
All that stuff was done without a pano setup and using APP.
I'm now doing interior stuff and forget not using nodal slides, you won't have a chance, I'm using the Nodal Ninja 5 and have found that PTGUI is a lot lot better for interior work. Horses for courses.
great summary gunzorro. i'm always tempted to get a tripod setup for panos but i don't think it would ever leave the house, i never want to carry that much with me.
My take on large (wide) panos is that they are intentionally too large to see all at once. Of course from a distance one may be able to be visualize the scene in its entirety, but the details will be far too small to be appreciated. A large pano gets much of its wow from readily visualizing the myriad of details during closer inspection of the pano. I have printed out large panos 1X8' in size, and the effect is the same. One has to laterally move to see it all.
taken a few weeks ago: http://www.fototime.com/E8D2683FB5D2508/orig.jpg
I could have just used a 35mm lens to get it all in one shot, but this view has a different impact when viewed with larger magnification. I look at it as a different crop. 21 shots with Canon 400/5.6 on 5DII.
Mike K
Gunzorro wrote:
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Those are the basics of panoramas from my experience on the journey. You can make it as tough or as simple as you want, but best results will require greater precision, as with any activity.
Very good writeup. I'll just add that there is a solution for those that are too lazy to do it manually - the Gigapan Epic Pro:
You just define the lens, point it to the upper left and lower right corner, press a button and it does the rest. The only downside is that it's big and heavy.
I've posted this before in a different thread, but here is a video of the Gigapan in action:
A Sikh Wedding, full 360 degree panos
Samyang 8mm f3.5, EOS XSi body, Nodal Ninja 3 MKII pano head, deployment krpano
(be sure to click on the full screen icons for max effect) http://www.sikhmuseum.com/vrwedding/
The famous Enola Gay, got to love the irony of that no smoking sign (it just smoked a whole city), handheld 5 image composite
Nikon 35mm f2 AIS, EOS 20D body
Ottawa, 10 image composite
Nikon 50mm f1.2 AIS, EOS 20D body, standard tripod head
the wooded stream is in fact an HDR panorama with 5 shots at each of 8 rotation positions. this was shot on my D3 with a Zeiss 25.
for the blurry dots, looking at the original images used to stitch from, i see that there was a water drop on the outermost filter, a CPL. the first 2 don't and the last 6 do. original exposure times were 30s on a clear bright day. i had my 10 stop and a CPL on top of my Zeiss 25. it's very hard to see and because the front was clear when i started, i didn't check. this isn't one of my real selects so i never noticed.
Herb...
Gunzorro wrote:
Herb -- Wonderful work. I particulaly like the later wooded stream with its greens and the lighting on the glistening rocks.
One question: On the first one of the gushing rapids, there are blurry dots about 1/3 way down the image in the foliage, going at what seems regular intervals horizontally across the frame on right toward the middle. What is the cause of that?
for the very first image in the IR and B&W set, all the close leaves are in one frame of capture. for the others, panorama stitching software is very, very good if you let it do its thing after configuring it right. i always use Autopano Pro but with far more processor intensive settings than default. its one area among any why i randomly try PTGui over the years and never actually stick with it. i find blending and automatic horizon levelling superior in Autopano Pro.
Herb...
ManWearPants wrote:
How do you keep the leaves sharp in pict #1 when doing a long exposure? A windless day or you use different Tv for the upper and lower stitch?
sebboh -- Thanks for the note about turning off AF. I meant to mention that I turn off AF after securing critical focus, and shoot in Manual mode based on an estimated exposure for all the shots, correcting in PP with LR.
There was an unbelievable stroke of luck finding that castle ruin. I had originally planned to shoot some country side photos of yellow fields against a blue sky. Unfortunately I couldn't find any. I drove around the country side at random and suddenly saw a sign saying that there was a castle ruin nearby. It turned out that it was the Mörby castle ruin. I knew of it as it's the only castle ruin in the Stockholm region that is more than just a couple of piled stones, but I had no idea that it was in the region where I was driving. Unfortunately I missed the good light, but I guess you can't have everything
It's a relatively big pano 60 images shot with a 5DII + Zeiss 100 MP using the gigapan. This is a 100% crop:
yeah, those are the water drops. i wasn't happy with the final results for artistic reasons so i never did much with the pano. i should clone those out someday.
Herb...
Gunzorro wrote:
Here are four spots I was talking about -- there might be a fifth to the far right in the branches along the same line.
Holy bandwidth batman! Those pano's took a good 30s to load for me helimat.
EDIT: oh, it's normal now pretty greenery, something I don't get to see in Western Australia
also before i realized i should sharpen after downsizing. despite it's many flaws it actually looks pretty good printed at 36" long.
