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Shane O'Neill
{K:3054} 11/23/2005
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Like I say, I'm fairly new to this. PT is cheaper. I'll get to grips with this first and see how I progress from there. Realviz has a new free trial out. If you use it let me know what you think.
Best Rgds,
Shane
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/23/2005
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No, never tried. With the new version of PtGui no need for a change, IMO. What?s the advantage ?
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Shane O'Neill
{K:3054} 11/23/2005
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ever tried Realviz? how does compare in your opinion?
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/23/2005
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Shane, this lens has very little barrel distortion. So I had not much trouble with the stitch- but PtGui can handle barrels automatically and fix them before stitching.
Cheers
Carsten
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Shane O'Neill
{K:3054} 11/20/2005
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Hi Carsten,
I saw this before but am taking a trip back to view again as I am trying to master this technique. This is excellent. Really, having tried to get the perfect panorama all weekend long - I know how tough it is to get right but you have nailed it. I have downloaded the trial software which you used to create the above image. What particularly impresses me is your ability to harness the barrell distortion. I use a 12mm (18mm equivient) lens and its distortion that gives programmes like Photomerge a really tough time trying to auto align the files. I will give this a try though. If I can find a solution to barrel distortion and create panaramics like the above I'm sure I'll be onto a winner! If you have any tips I'd much appreciate it.
Kind Regards,
Shane
info@aspectphotography.net
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Antonia BauerleinSehnert
{K:30599} 11/20/2005
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Wow! That is amazing -- nearly automatically! Your stitching is superb. Bravo to PTGui as well. Antonia
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/16/2005
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Roger, indeed interesting. Sounds as if you are quite engaged with bits and bytes ;-) Would be a great enhancement for pano addicts here...
Cheers
Carsten
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/16/2005
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I just tried to upload a longish reply but it seems not to have got through. At the risk of a tiresome double posting I will try again....
Al (SysAdMin) replied to a suggestion along these lines that he was prepared to consider allowing more flexibility in pixel dimensions, trading depth for width to give the same pixel product count, subject of course to the same file-size limits. I had been pushing for this ever since I joined Usefilm over two years ago. So instead of 800 x 800 you could have 400 x 1600 or whatever. I was greatly encouraged.
He also said he was prepared to set up an "Article" on panoramas with a threaded correspondence capability to which people could post panoramas, which he would host separately, i.e., keep away from the main site. This would be an experimental "SIG" with a view to seeing how much interest it arouses and how much trouble it is to host. It could ultimately become a part of the normal Usefilm. At least, that's what I understood him to be saying. I have found a free service that will link to the Usefilm server and analyse the plugins available on the computers of those browsing a panoramic image, and then generate on-the-fly the HTML that will facilitate their use of the plugin they possess. So people with PTViewer installed would get to use that, and people with Immervision installed would get to use THAT, etc., with all the standard conditions preset appropriately (size of viewing "window," direction of initial view, any autorotation, etc). If the image were in Quicktime VR format and the viewer had the plugin, it would of course use that. However, the Quicktime plugin now requires you to download iTunes at the same time, making it an ENORMOUS 32MB, so it wouldn't be wise to insist on everyone providing images in QT format. This free function is an IMMENSE time saver for the site administration because it means essentially NO special coding or multiple-choice buttons need be provided/coded at the server end.
Sound interesting?
The generated HTML would also have a fail-safe option that merely displays the standard JPEG if no VR plugins are detected, and this could have links to VR plugin download sites.
I have a domain name registered for my own panorama site (rogerama.jp) and intend to use this service, which was created and is being operated by an Israeli friend.
PS Thanks for your encouraging comments on my photos. I think you are way ahead of me in experience and a very gifted photographer, but I am panting along in the dust behind you! Certainly we seem to share a love for the wide-angle end of things. That generally goes with a love of panoramas, I find. An immersive 360 x 180-degree VR panorama must be the ultimate wide-angle view!
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/15/2005
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Roger, sorry no other larger uploads. Really a pity, maybe UF could allow for Quicktime format to be shown, nice for such panos
Cheers
Carsten
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/15/2005
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Ah, another panorama lover--and user of PTGui. I too am impressed with the new version of this program. Do you have somewhere else to display your panoramas at a larger size? This beautiful panorama would repay viewing at a width of at least 1200 pixels!
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/14/2005
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Ann, I really believe you have eagle?s eyes ;-)
I had a close look into the large version, and voilá - there is a visible seam. Hard to imagine how you managed to detect this in the small version ! Here is a 100% crop from the region
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 11/14/2005
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Seeing as I've never even seen a seam or really know what to look for I'm more than likely wrong on this but here is what I see blown up so big that you an hardly make it out but what I see is a verticle line of unusual pixels around the centre which could be building scafolding or some other thing and if so I apologise. Just thought I'd point it out mainly to see if that's what a seam looks like or if I'm just seeing something that's just a part of the image.
I've read elsewhere about the 17-40 lens that it's not as sharp as the 16-35 but I also found the latter to be priced at a burning US$3,600. That's a good enough reason NOT to buy the 16-35.
I really don't mean to offend by harping on this seam thing. It's more my own curiosity than anything else. Here's my blow up of the area where I thought there may have been an unusual verticle line.
Cheers - Ann :)
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/13/2005
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Ann, thanks for your detailed comment. You must have eagle?s eyes... I dont see the seam you mean. I worked on this in 100% mag with layers in PS (shot as RAW), but it is of course possible that I have overlooked a seam, who knows.
The 17-40/4L is probably one of the best zooms ever built, and a bargain (as compared to the 16-35). Also good for later full frame, but a tad softer than the 16-35 in the edges.
Cheers
Carsten
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 11/13/2005
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WOW amazing image Carsten. I have the same camera and have been thinking about getting that same lens. By the looks of things it's well worth the cost. Are you happy with it?
Did you shoot this all RAW to have such large files?
The detail in this image is brilliant. The colour is super and the stitchwork is very masterful. I'm not sure but is that a slight seam I see towards the right hand side of the image just left of the cars and above the light coloured building in the foregoround? Not being critical but I haven't seen too many stitched images and just want to know if that's what I'm seeing or if that's something else like a part of a building or similar. It's the only place I see it.
This is so impressive. Something I could aspire to. Into my favourites it goes. Thanks.
Thank you also for taking the time to view and comment on my images. I appreciate your comments very much.
Oh one other thing...I already have too many friends and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly fit another one in but I'd glady knock one off to have you as a friend Carsten (tongue in cheek humour here).
Cheers - Ann :)
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Barry Wakelin
{K:7838} 11/6/2005
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Mighty impressive. I think that this kind of pano-stitching really comes into its own for cityscapes. I wish I'd taken some panos to stitch when I was in Venice in January, it was beautifully clear and sunny in that way that only occurs in winter.
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 11/6/2005
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Peter, sorry for the late response. Agree with your proposal - UF could limit the uploaded file size, another version. Square formats are best suited for upload, and panos are disadvantaged now
Cheers
Carsten
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Mary Brown
{K:71879} 10/31/2005
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Fabulous!
Mary
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Maja Gligoric
{K:13528} 10/31/2005
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Very impressive!
Great panoramic view.
Regards
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György Szönyi
{K:10011} 10/31/2005
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Very nice pano, Carsten, although the horizon seems to jerk a bit a little right from the center. But Verona makes up for everything. Where are the "fall colors" coming? I imagine Mariazell very beautiful in the Autumn sun. Cheers: György
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Peter Houtmeyers
{K:3519} 10/24/2005
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Perfect panoramique photo Carsten! I wish there was another size available on usefilm to allow these stiched photo's to be seen in better conditions. Now the max size is 800x800 pixels and 360kb. If they would change the panoramique photo size( and only the panoramique photo's) to lets say 1200x530 or 1000x640 pixels max that would allready be a lot better.What do you think???
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Mohamed Banna
{K:34237} 10/23/2005
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WOWWWWWWWww
amazing view
very well captured
nice colors
perfect lens choise
WELL DONE /77
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 10/12/2005
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well.. carsten, very cool.. bravo!
a romantic verona in a panorama shot!
my all best
roby
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Adolfo Valente
{K:538} 10/9/2005
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Great panorama!
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FERDINAND DOTREMONT
{K:6612} 10/8/2005
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Excellent work! Beautiful result! Original and very inpressive.
Congrats.
Ferdinand
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Giorgio Goretti
{K:15471} 10/8/2005
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great work...already downloaded, i'll give a try..
thanks for the info ;-)
Giorgio
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Thilo Bayer
{K:50358} 10/5/2005
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Hi Carsten,
awesome widescreen format for sure ;-)
you did very well in composing the different shots. the transitions are well done and nearly invisible. great work!
best wishes,
Thilo
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jacques brisebois
{K:73883} 10/5/2005
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yes it's impressive, praticly no mark for the stich. Well done.
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Fadel J
{K:13974} 10/4/2005
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What a view, you are the master of stitching! :)
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ricardo longhi-frantz
{K:9628} 10/3/2005
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wow!!! fabulous photocomposition Carsten!!! amazing perspective!!! a pity that the screen is so small for seeing all its many and delightful details, this pic would deserve a full wall size. congrats!
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Chris Hunter
{K:25634} 10/2/2005
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Nice pano work Carsten, the app sounds to be working well.
Cheers,
Chris
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 10/2/2005
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Alison, this cryptic abbreviation PTGui 5 means the software for stitching. I had those 7 shots from Verona in my archive, but no success with a pano until now (this update is really great, works automatically, and creates a PSD file with masked layers for possible corrections).
Thanks for stopping by !
Carsten
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Alison DuFlon
{K:36566} 10/1/2005
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What a beautiful shot of the city, I don't know what a PTGui5.1 is but from this shot it must be good. :)) I like the composition, the roofs on the right lead us in and the curve of the street continues us through the shot. beautifully done Carsten, I would never be able to tell there were 7 shots. Alison
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Carsten Ranke
{K:14476} 10/1/2005
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Johannes, yes, it was my 17-40/4L lens @ 17 mm.
Thanks for stopping by !
Carsten
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Ameed El-Ghoul
{K:42215} 10/1/2005
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Carsten, you always come up with something new, but the only comment thing in all your pictures is the creativity in composing the picture and imagining the filan result, very well done my friend,
Cheers,
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Johannes
{K:359} 10/1/2005
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Impressive Carsten, did you used a wide lens?
Kind regards,
Johannes
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 10/1/2005
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P.S. I've just noticed Don's comment!
He's a master of understatement!
Chris
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Chris Spracklen
{K:32552} 10/1/2005
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Unbelievable!!!
Fabulous pano, Carsten!
You're a master photographer AND processor!!
Well done, my friend.
Best regards, Chris
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patrizio napolitano
{K:13119} 10/1/2005
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perfetta foto e architettura
mi piace tantissimo
patrizio
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Michele Berti
{K:14921} 10/1/2005
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wow! impressive
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Zeev Scharf
{K:25603} 10/1/2005
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Beautiful panoramic view of Verona my friend,excellent stitching
Besat regards
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Bradley Prue
{K:30678} 10/1/2005
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You missed your calling, Carsten... You should have been a surgeon. This smokes.
..Brad
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Don Loseke
{K:32503} 10/1/2005
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Quite impressive picture Carsten, very seamless. Such a great sea of red roofs. Excellent work. Don.
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