An Uphill Sh'Lepp with this Panorama thing

01/18/2016 03:39:23 PM · #51

Originally posted by backdoorhippie:

Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by WonderDude:
I wouldn't be so irritated if I hadn't spent days contemplating a subject and hours driving around looking for something interesting and then more hours processing what I found.

Didn't you learn something by undertaking this exercise? WTF cares what a few dozen voters at some website think of the result? Acquiring knowledge is almost always useful, even if you may not see a "practical" use for it at the moment.

Precisely. If nothing else I learned about the stuff this challenge should have been about (GigaPanoramas) and am setting about to try a few of those. It won't be useful here, but...

And btw, I'm not sure what happened but I just jumped a full point in 3 votes. Whoo-hoo!!

Perhaps irritated is a little strong. But what bothers me is that it doesn't seem to matter whether I spend the time crafting a wonderful piece of art or whether I just throw a snapshot up here, the voting seems irrelevant! And although I am learning how to do this particular challenge, I feel that if it weren't for the critique club, I'd be learning nothing from this site about how to create an appealing image.

Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

01/18/2016 03:48:14 PM · #52

Originally posted by giantmike:

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

Originally posted by WonderDude:
I believe that my image is receiving unfair judgement.

"Fair" is not really the issue; people give it the score they think it deserves, and they take into account not just photographic quality but challenge relevance. If it doesn't LOOK like a panorama it will get dinged, even if it IS created using panoramic techniques. If it doesn't LOOK like a "closeup" it will get dinged, even if YOU think of of as a closeup yourself... I'm in the 4.5 range myself, FWIW.

A lot of these panoramas LOOK like they are cropped, wide-angle shots to the casual viewer. It's only when you look closely at the relative proportions of edge objects to center objects that you realize you're looking at a composite image.

Yeah, exactly. And I have left comments on all images, so hopefully people get insight to voter thoughts.

I did appreciate the comment.

I'm not gonna respond yet. I think I should wait until after the challenge.

theluissales

Canon EOS R7

01/18/2016 06:24:08 PM · #53

I stitched 7 images for mine. It was fun! But more "fun" was to see Photoshop taking around little more than two minutes to crop and re-size the original 20177x3752 to fit DPC size specs... :)

Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

01/18/2016 06:39:31 PM · #54

What I thought was cool was how Photoshop was able to fill in areas that were blank after the merge.

theluissales

Canon EOS R7

01/18/2016 06:49:50 PM · #55

Originally posted by WonderDude:

What I thought was cool was how Photoshop was able to fill in areas that were blank after the merge.

nam

Sony DSLR-A580

Sony DT 18-70mm f/3.5-5.6 Aspherical ED Zoom Lens for Sony Alpha

01/18/2016 07:09:32 PM · #56

Originally posted by luissales:

Originally posted by WonderDude:
What I thought was cool was how Photoshop was able to fill in areas that were blank after the merge.

+1

Not to throw a wrench in the works, but I always thought that for DPC purposes, we should crop these areas off . . . maybe not.

Fujifilm XF 10-24mm f/4 R IOS

01/18/2016 07:20:14 PM · #57

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by luissales:

Originally posted by WonderDude:
What I thought was cool was how Photoshop was able to fill in areas that were blank after the merge.

+1

Not to throw a wrench in the works, but I always thought that for DPC purposes, we should crop these areas off . . . maybe not.

Yeah, I did end up cropping these areas out because they left some anomalies. But considering there there was once nothing and PSE was intelligent enough to fill it in with something, I consider that pretty cool! :-)

markwiley

Fujifilm X-Pro2

01/19/2016 04:40:39 PM · #58

Originally posted by nam:

You may not:
- use ANY editing technique to create new image area, objects or features that didn't already exist in your original capture(s).

JakeKurdsjuk

Canon EOS R5

Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1 L IS USM

01/19/2016 05:03:03 PM · #59

Originally posted by markwiley:

Originally posted by nam:

Originally posted by luissales:

Originally posted by WonderDude:
What I thought was cool was how Photoshop was able to fill in areas that were blank after the merge.

+1

Not to throw a wrench in the works, but I always thought that for DPC purposes, we should crop these areas off . . . maybe not.

You may not:
- use ANY editing technique to create new image area, objects or features that didn't already exist in your original capture(s).

Which is where this gets murky, because "the lawn" and "the sky" are already image areas, so using content aware fill to add more of something that's already there, if OK when removing a power line, would probably be OK when removing a gap in a Pano. Spirit of the law, stuff.

Message edited by author 2016-01-19 17:03:26.