Thanks for the top 20 finish and some explaining

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Canon

08/11/2004 12:16:58 AM · #1

Thanks for the top 20 finish and thanks to everyone who commented on my entry. Since there seemed to be some level of confusion regarding the technique used here are a few shots that I hope make it easy to see how it was done.

Original entry:

Thought of this at the last minute. Printed out an old road panorama that I had shot a while ago. As you can see, I couldn't really get the seams to blend physically. I was using coins to force scale until my girlfriend suggested using batteries.

Here is a shot showing the setup:

I hope this image shows clearly enough how I did it. I just printed out an old panorama I had, printed extra asphalt and an extra asphalt + white line piece. I realized too late that if I'd reversed the panorama before printing, I could have had the truck driving on the right side of the road. Also might have helped with the seam visibility.

Here is the original panorama used for the backdrop:

Here is an alternate entry:

Thanks again,
Ara

hannafate

Nikon D70

08/11/2004 09:15:21 AM · #2

The one you entered was the right one. The alternate doesn't have that mysterious quality.

whatdewuc

08/11/2004 11:38:40 AM · #3

I may have passed up voting on the alternate. The road would make for a nice advert "Duracell, for the long haul"...nice work.

tyrkinn

Canon EOS-20D

08/11/2004 11:44:21 AM · #4

Great work, really good solution for the challenge (wish I'd thought of that...)

08/11/2004 11:58:45 AM · #5

Thanks guys! I only wish I'd been able to clone/heal out the seams. I've got an edited version at home that I'll upload later. I don't know if I like it better, but it's a lot smoother.

Message edited by author 2004-08-11 12:00:15.

08/11/2004 07:44:19 PM · #6

Here is the edited version. Please tell me what you think.

Thanks,
Ara

kyebosh

Canon EOS-20D

Canon EF 80-200 f/2.8L

08/11/2004 07:58:52 PM · #7

Mmm no more lines, excellent.

08/12/2004 02:54:40 PM · #8

Originally posted by kyebosh:

Mmm no more lines, excellent.

Thanks!

graphicfunk

Canon EOS-20D

08/12/2004 03:01:42 PM · #9

This was a very exciting entry. Your corrected version is quite an improvement. The only thing I would do to make it perfect is select the left part of the image, a minor level tweak and then hue-sat to remove the light green look of the grass. Otherwise, kudos on your great and attractive study.

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

08/12/2004 04:17:35 PM · #10

Originally posted by graphicfunk:

Thanks! I had fun doing it. One question, how would you select just the left part of the image to tweak the levels? If I do that, won't the line of selection become extremely obvious once I start changing levels and hue/sat?

strangeghost

Canon EOS-7D

08/12/2004 04:52:32 PM · #11

Originally posted by BikeRacer:

Feather your selection up to about 10-15 pixels. This will prevent the dreaded selection line from becoming a bigger problem than the one you were trying to correct.

Soleil9

Canon PowerShot A80

08/12/2004 06:03:33 PM · #12

Ahhh! I was so fooled! When I voted (8), I thought it was really taken on a real road! I didn't even see the seams. Now that I look at it closer, the scale is a little funny between the batteries and the truck and road. The cleaned up version is even more convincing. Awesome!