dcjs, nice panorama, somehow it has middleformat feeling in it. I was going to shoot this summer without tripod (==> no panoramas either), but I may have to lug it sometimes with me if this thread keeps inspiring me...
I think I've mentioned before that on the rare occasions that I can visit interesting locations, I probably haven't shot a single "regular" frame since I have discovered panoramic stitching. The difference between a 6MP crop senso image and what is possible with panos is just too big. Stitching makes up for the two big shortcomings of my camera, small sensor and low resolution, while taking advantage of the great OOC colors. In fact, I'm so spoiled by the results I'm getting that my PP skills are really low, and it will take some time to get used to a FF camera once I can afford it, because it seems to me that no current camera can easily match the results of the Fuji in some respects.
Still, I'd like to be able to take advantage of the high dynamic range of the S5 quite often(using digital ND grad), something that is not possible with my current pano workflow. Also, downsizing&sharpening is a real pain with some images, and I can't really figure out why. Maybe my mind is playing tricks on me and it's just that the original file contains so much more detail and I subconciously judge the end reslut by that. Should be the same for diffrenet images though, but it isn't.
Anyway, here's another one, S5, Contax at 70mm/~f11, Hoya HD polarizer, 5x3 OOC JPGs, cropped. I could have recovered lots of detail in the sky by shooting raw and doing an ND grad, but I'm not sure two sets of panoramas from RAWs developed with different exposure would overlap perfectly. Haven't figured out Hugin's HDR function yet, either. Lots of stuff to learn.
I probably haven't shot a single "regular" frame since I have discovered panoramic stitching.
In fact, I'm so spoiled by the results I'm getting...
Still, I'd like to be able to take advantage of the high dynamic range of the S5 quite often(using digital ND grad), something that is not possible with my current pano workflow.
If you bracket 2 or 3 exposures for each frame in the pano set some pano assembly software will automatically use them. You can control the tone curves so with the image above for example you could get a non-white sky out of it. etc. You can do the same with Photoshop as well BTW.
GSteve, nice image (could be straightened a bit). The state of Arkansas should be ashamed of itself for not lighting the State Capital building properly. Is there an energy crisis or something?
Since finding this forum I have gone back through gB's of stored files to try and find pano's that I shot, but never got around to processing. This is gonna be fun!
8-shots? on a 40D with a Tokina 12-24mm. If anyone watched the movie "Shooter" with Mark Walberg, the opening sequence was shot from this vantage point looking down over the river, portraying Afghanistan I believe! http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5027/5828869201_ce4606a480_o.jpg
Another of the same stretch of river. The movie "The A-Team", opening 10-15 minutes was shot just up over the rise, portraying Mexico. They then flew helicopters down this strtch of river in the crazy helicopter chase scene.....
carstenw wrote:
CampX, where is that stretch of river? Looks like Arizona or something like that.
Try southern interior of British Columbia, Canada! The Thompson River, world renowned steelhead river. This is my home, and anyone who grew up here has memories attached to those clay cliffs - when the river drops at the end of summer, we all went swimming here. Cactus, tumbleweed and rattlesnakes (in fact, the hill above the river here is called Rattlesnake Mountain). Hollywood North has 'discovered' the area, and has used the surrounding area to portray anything desolate like the Mexican interior, Afghanistan, California, etc.
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