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02/26/2007 02:49:54 PM · #26

Originally posted by Rob O:

Here's a night pano of Phoenix, taken from a POV north/northeast of downtown. The downtown skyline is visible far right.

Click for larger version (6000px wide). :)

Good Job. I tried taking a pano of Phoenix from the Compass Restaurant on top of the Hyatt downtown one time. That has the best easily accessible view of downtown there is. But the rotation of the resturant ruined every night shot. There were streaks in every image. Bummer!

02/26/2007 03:15:38 PM · #27

Originally posted by dickwilhelm:

Mount St. Helens

Another Mt. St. Helens Pano...

This is not post processed in any way and stitched with Hugins which I think is the best pano software combination and does not cost anything.

I did a series of tests with this very image using different pano software products and put them with other panos here:
Steve's Panoramas

Btw... If you look at other panoramas than Mount St. Helens in that gallery and see the guy in red... that is kirbic. Now, I ask you really, do you wanna take panorama advice from a guy that looks like that? ;) LOL!!!

02/26/2007 03:30:18 PM · #28

All done in CS2 merge:

(4 landscape pics)

(5 portrait pics)

(4 landscape pics)

(4 portrait pics)

(3 portrait pics)

(4 landscape pics)

(3 landscape pics)

(4 portrait pics)

(3 landscape pics)

(3 Mavica portrait pics)

(5 Mavica landscape pics)

(gotta' look around for the rest of mine)

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 16:10:46.

Rob O

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

02/26/2007 03:41:47 PM · #29

Originally posted by stdavidson:

Originally posted by Rob O:
Here's a night pano of Phoenix, taken from a POV north/northeast of downtown. The downtown skyline is visible far right.

Click for larger version (6000px wide). :)

Good Job. I tried taking a pano of Phoenix from the Compass Restaurant on top of the Hyatt downtown one time. That has the best easily accessible view of downtown there is. But the rotation of the resturant ruined every night shot. There were streaks in every image. Bummer!

Thanks Steve. I tried getting a friend who works at BofA downtown, whose building is perfect for shooting lower downtown facing north, to get me in after hours so I could shoot a few from the top floor ... but security wouldn't go for it.

The pano I posted was taken from the hilltop next to The Pointe, Tapatio Cliffs Resort. I'd like to go back and snap a few more at the "blue hour", for a more interesting sky and better shadow detail, and on a Sunday, when the haze has moved out.

Mephisto

Nikon Coolpix A

Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH

02/26/2007 03:42:45 PM · #30

both almost 180 degrees, stitched with pixtra pano stitcher from 6 exposures

360 degrees experiments...;)

02/26/2007 03:59:01 PM · #31

Originally posted by Rob O:

Click for larger version (6000px wide). :)

I tried getting a friend who works at BofA downtown, whose building is perfect for shooting lower downtown facing north, to get me in after hours so I could shoot a few from the top floor ... but security wouldn't go for it.

The pano I posted was taken from the hilltop next to The Pointe, Tapatio Cliffs Resort. I'd like to go back and snap a few more at the "blue hour", for a more interesting sky and better shadow detail, and on a Sunday, when the haze has moved out.

Yours has more altitude than I would have thought possible from there, but a nicee view. If you can gain access from another downtown building other than BofA but close you will get the great view and good night panorama of Phoenix.

02/26/2007 04:10:05 PM · #32

Originally posted by Brad:

All done in CS2 merge: ...

I've used CS2 and with a lot of work found you can get a good result with "Photomerge" and it is, by far, the easiest to work with.

However, my experience compared to the merging capabilities with just about every other commercial and/or free stitch software available is that it produces the worst result and requires far more post processing 'adjustments' than anything else to get an accepatable result.

In my experience the areas that need the most post processing with CS2 are lighting merge and detail merge and those are what stitching are all about. Hopefully CS3 is better.

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 16:12:11.

Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM

02/26/2007 04:12:59 PM · #33

The skies are the toughest in CS2's merge, especially if done using a polarizer. The advanced blending mode does help though.
(reminds self NOT to use a polarizer shooting panos..)

I's not perfect, but have done one in a 60" x 12" print, and wow!

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 16:13:44.

digitalpins

Canon EOS-60D

02/26/2007 04:20:29 PM · #34

this is the longest one I have done

I caught this guy last year during our blizzard

Taken from Governors Island

Taken from top of Central Parks Belvadere Castle

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 16:22:03.

Mephisto

Nikon Coolpix A

Panasonic Lumix G 14mm F2.5 ASPH

02/26/2007 04:34:03 PM · #35

i just found two more...

this one is only from a single exposure

from eight exposures, a nice vulcano crater in the highlands of iceland

Nikon AF-S Zoom-Nikkor 28-70mm f/2.8D IF-ED

02/26/2007 04:43:15 PM · #36

Originally posted by Brad:

The skies are the toughest in CS2's merge, especially if done using a polarizer. The advanced blending mode does help though.
(reminds self NOT to use a polarizer shooting panos..)

It's not perfect, but have done one in a 60" x 12" print, and wow!

I did the following image with CS2 that looks OK for 3 rows and 29 images:

Be sure to click 'original' to see the larger uploaded size and that is nowhere near its actual size. It looks OK, but required a lot more work in CS2 after merging than virtually any other free or commercial stitching software I've tried. I'd prefer to use CS2's Photomerge because of its incredible ease of use, but do use Hugins because it does a far better job up front and ultimately requires less 'tweaking'. :)

Nald

Nikon D700

02/26/2007 04:47:16 PM · #37

Here's a link to one I did in January:

Balanced Rock

02/26/2007 04:51:59 PM · #38

Originally posted by stdavidson:

I did the following image with CS2 that looks OK for 3 rows and 29 images:

Be sure to click 'original' to see the larger uploaded size...

And be sure to look for the red "dot" just below the tree line at lower left... that's me. I think you can see the glint of sun off my head ;-)

02/26/2007 05:09:13 PM · #39

One more. Chickgo Skyline. This challenge entry:

Was from one frame of the above pano.

02/26/2007 05:20:39 PM · #40

Originally posted by kirbic:

Originally posted by stdavidson:
I did the following image with CS2 that looks OK for 3 rows and 29 images:

Be sure to click 'original' to see the larger uploaded size...

And be sure to look for the red "dot" just below the tree line at lower left... that's me. I think you can see the glint of sun off my head ;-)

I cloned out the shiny part. LOL!!!

Message edited by author 2007-02-26 17:23:26.

PHOTOKID

02/26/2007 05:25:16 PM · #41

This one was done with canon software that came with the camera. It is 5 shots to compose this lighthouse .

Rich

Rob O

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

02/26/2007 05:32:30 PM · #42

Originally posted by stdavidson:

[quote=Rob O]
Click for larger version (6000px wide). :)

Yours has more altitude than I would have thought possible from there, but a nicee view. If you can gain access from another downtown building other than BofA but close you will get the great view and good night panorama of Phoenix.

There's a great spot from the Hwy 51-to-Loop 202 transition to get a west-facing pano of the city skyline ... but you might lose your life in the process given Valley drivers and the fact you'd have to take it from the shoulder of a 50' high onramp! ;-)

I'm going to try and shoot something from the top of the Papago Buttes (west facing) and see how it compares. It'll be about the same distance as the above, but the skyline can be more easily isolated.

PHOTOKID

02/27/2007 07:14:14 AM · #43

Here is another photo from me, this is a 3 shot composed of a 280 foot waterfall.

I love panoramics, puts a bit of an added challenge into photography.

Rich

super-dave

Nikon D200

Nikon AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED

02/27/2007 07:20:04 AM · #44

you know, i suck at panoramas ... my biggest problem is shooting so that the images are more likely to line up.

i'd love to see someone like kirbic or brad make up a big tutorial on how to shoot and edit panos in photoshop.

anyone know of any good existing tutorials?

MichaelC

DJI Mini 3 Pro

02/27/2007 07:39:33 AM · #45

Have only ever done a few whilst on holidays, and the stitchings not so great but I like them.

The first is Paddington Station (I think), London 2005.

These 2 are from Samoa in 2004.

Didn't have a polarizer at that stage, so held my polaroid sunnies over the front of the lens.

02/27/2007 08:41:13 AM · #46

Forgot an important one:

(with link to full sized version)

Same one, broken down into 3 parts to assemble thumbs side-by-side here for s&g.

PhantomEWO

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

02/27/2007 09:49:37 AM · #47

Jamaica, Montego Bay from last week. Each panarama has 8 photos. I want to go back and really spend some time there.

.
Ya Mon!

02/27/2007 10:05:37 AM · #48

Originally posted by super-dave:

There's a ton of good information here:

//www.panoguide.com/

The above link presents a *lot* of very good, detailed information. Using the information there, you should be able to get up the learning curve very quickly. One point regarding handheld panos. They can be very good indeed, but when there are near objects in the frame, you'll rapidly learn how big a problem parallax can be. For more typical landscape panos, it's entirely possible to get great results handheld, with some practice.

02/27/2007 10:06:34 AM · #49

Originally posted by PhantomEWO:

Jamaica, Montego Bay from last week. Each panorama has 8 photos. I want to go back and really spend some time there.

Ya Mon!

Been there and so want to return.
(oh that dude up there ^ was in Sand Diego) :P