What I\'d really like to know is:
What else do you need apart from the PTGui and Krpano?
The light level seems pretty even from left to right.
Did you have to make a fixed manual exposure and adjust in post processing?
Nothing else needed.. Just a pano stitcher like Photoshop or PTGui (I prefer PTGui - it is fantastic...) and Krpano. I will explain the whole process I go through:
Pano purists will throw their hand in the air in horror when they read the following:
My technique - casual, point, shoot & hope for the best Camera set for Shutter Priority - this is wrong, purists say manual exposure set for each exposure in the sequence. Auto focus - this is wrong - hyper focal distance should be set for the scene in question Hand held, swinging the camera left to right. Make a note of what is in the centre of the frame on each shot and place that item on the left edge of the frame...
(At least two gross mistakes here - hand held & swinging the camera)
Handheld? Purists would insist on a tripod - spirit level levelled. Swinging the camera...eek! Purists: a proper pano head should be used to ensure that the camera pivots on the front nodal point...
I am not decrying the correct or purists way for taking panos in any way. It is just that when I am out an about overseas, I am usually in the company of our French hosts, being shown their countryside - It is not possible to impose on their good nature to haul tripod pano head etc.
What I am stressing is that you don\'t HAVE to have all that kit and spend the necessary time to take creditable and pleasant panos. There are panos that can\'t be done without the proper technique especially where objects are closed to the observer...
In other words, my panos are a quick shoot. Even a 360 pano took less than a minute to shoot.
Workflow
* Once you get a pano sequence in the camera, stitch them together using PTGui (or any other pano stitcher)
* Process in Photoshop - (crop, colour enhance/balance, sharpen etc.)
* Save as a *.JPG at full pixel size - Do not reduce the image size - big is beautiful!
For onward processing into an HD pano, I have found it very handy to make a separate directory for each pano and place a copy of the original in the appropriate directory.
D/L & install a demo of Krpano Flash Viewer AND Krpano TOOLS (both v1.0.8 beta 8) from here
(If you buy a licence the \'demo\' stamp will be removed)
Install the Krpano Tools on the Desktop
To create a High Definition pano could not be easier.
* Use Windows Explorer to find the full size pano and just drag and drop it onto the Krpano icon on your desktop.... That is it!
Krpano will analyse the original pano then automatically:
- convert it into a sequence of \'tiles\'.
- create the necessary subdirectories to neatly organise all the support files and insert the support stuff
- create the HTML page that displays the panorama.
- create an XML page where you can heavily customise the way the pano is displayed.
- create a krpano flash player to host the image.
And... That is it - The biggest pano I have done to date has only taken a few seconds to be automatically generated.... If you want to display the finished creation on the net, all you have to do is upload the directory where the pano was processes but do not upload the original complete pano - it is not needed now.
Questions?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that PTGui does a wonderful job of \'warping\' te images to match the fit AND averages out the exposure to a very acceptable degree...
With all the above said, I have just purchased a NN5 Pano head and leveller so that I can do spherical panos - but that is another story...
What I\'d really like to know is:
What else do you need apart from the PTGui and Krpano?
The light level seems pretty even from left to right.
Did you have to make a fixed manual exposure and adjust in post processing?
Nothing else needed.. Just a pano stitcher like Photoshop or PTGui (I prefer PTGui - it is fantastic...) and Krpano. I will explain the whole process I go through:
Pano purists will throw their hand in the air in horror when they read the following:
My technique - casual, point, shoot & hope for the best Camera set for Shutter Priority - this is wrong, purists say manual exposure set for each exposure in the sequence. Auto focus - this is wrong - hyper focal distance should be set for the scene in question Hand held, swinging the camera left to right. Make a note of what is in the centre of the frame on each shot and place that item on the left edge of the frame...
(At least two gross mistakes here - hand held & swinging the camera)
Handheld? Purists would insist on a tripod - spirit level levelled. Swinging the camera...eek! Purists: a proper pano head should be used to ensure that the camera pivots on the front nodal point...
I am not decrying the correct or purists way for taking panos in any way. It is just that when I am out an about overseas, I am usually in the company of our French hosts, being shown their countryside - It is not possible to impose on their good nature to haul tripod pano head etc.
What I am stressing is that you don\'t HAVE to have all that kit and spend the necessary time to take creditable and pleasant panos. There are panos that can\'t be done without the proper technique especially where objects are closed to the observer...
In other words, my panos are a quick shoot. Even a 360 pano took less than a minute to shoot.
Workflow
* Once you get a pano sequence in the camera, stitch them together using PTGui (or any other pano stitcher)
* Process in Photoshop - (crop, colour enhance/balance, sharpen etc.)
* Save as a *.JPG at full pixel size - Do not reduce the image size - big is beautiful!
For onward processing into an HD pano, I have found it very handy to make a separate directory for each pano and place a copy of the original in the appropriate directory.
D/L & install a demo of Krpano Flash Viewer AND Krpano TOOLS (both v1.0.8 beta 8) from here
(If you buy a licence the \'demo\' stamp will be removed)
Install the Krpano Tools on the Desktop
To create a High Definition pano could not be easier.
* Use Windows Explorer to find the full size pano and just drag and drop it onto the Krpano icon on your desktop.... That is it!
Krpano will analyse the original pano then automatically:
- convert it into a sequence of \'tiles\'.
- create the necessary subdirectories to neatly organise all the support files and insert the support stuff
- create the HTML page that displays the panorama.
- create an XML page where you can heavily customise the way the pano is displayed.
- create a krpano flash player to host the image.
And... That is it - The biggest pano I have done to date has only taken a few seconds to be automatically generated.... If you want to display the finished creation on the net, all you have to do is upload the directory where the pano was processes but do not upload the original complete pano - it is not needed now.
Questions?
With all the above said, I have just purchased a NN5 Pano head and leveller so that I can do spherical panos - but that is another story...
What I\'d really like to know is:
What else do you need apart from the PTGui and Krpano?
The light level seems pretty even from left to right.
Did you have to make a fixed manual exposure and adjust in post processing?
Nothing else needed.. Just a pano stitcher like Photoshop or PTGui (I prefer PTGui - it is fantastic...) and Krpano. I will explain the whole process I go through:
Pano purists will throw their hand in the air in horror when they read the following:
My technique - casual, point, shoot & hope for the best Camera set for Shutter Priority - this is wrong, purists say manual exposure set for each exposure in the sequence. Auto focus - this is wrong - hyper focal distance should be set for the scene in question Hand held, swinging the camera left to right. Make a note of what is in the centre of the frame on each shot and place that item on the left edge of the frame...
(At least two gross mistakes here - hand held & swinging the camera)
Handheld? Purists would insist on a tripod - spirit level levelled. Swinging the camera...eek! Purists: a proper pano head should be used to ensure that the camera pivots on the front nodal point...
I am not decrying the correct or purists way for taking panos in any way. It is just that when I am out an about overseas, I am usually in the company of our French hosts, being shown their countryside - It is not possible to impose on their good nature to haul tripod pano head etc.
What I am stressing is that you don\'t HAVE to have all that kit and spend the necessary time to take creditable and pleasant panos. There are panos that can\'t be done without the proper technique especially where objects are closed to the observer...
In other words, my panos are a quick shoot. Even a 360 pano took less than a minute to shoot.
Workflow
* Once you get a pano sequence in the camera, stitch them together using PTGui (or any other pano stitcher)
* Process in Photoshop - (crop, colour enhance/balance, sharpen etc.)
* Save as a *.JPG at full pixel size - Do not reduce the image size - big is beautiful!
For onward processing into an HD pano, I have found it very handy to make a separate directory for each pano and place a copy of the original in the appropriate directory.
D/L & install a demo of Krpano Flash Viewer AND Krpano TOOLS (both v1.0.8 beta 8) from here
(If you buy a licence the \'demo\' stamp will be removed)
Install the Krpano Tools on the Desktop
To create a High Definition pano could not be easier.
* Use Windows Explorer to find the full size pano and just drag and drop it onto the Krpano icon on your desktop.... That is it!
Krpano will analyse the original pano then automatically:
- convert it into a sequence of \'tiles\'.
- create the necessary subdirectories to neatly organise all the support files and insert the support stuff
- create the HTML page that displays the panorama.
- create an XML page where you can heavily customise the way the pano is displayed.
And... That is it - The biggest pano I have done to date has only taken a few seconds to be automatically generated.... If you want to display the finished creation on the net, all you have to do is upload the directory where the pano was processes but do not upload the original complete pano - it is not needed now.
Questions?
With all the above said, I have just purchased a NN5 Pano head and leveller so that I can do spherical panos - but that is another story...
Nov 09, 2009 at 05:57 AM
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