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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 5/28/2007
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Well, Mary, one thing that occurred to me after I posted this was to avoid the cut through the middle of the main gate. This works very well with the gate on the extreme left and the red building on the extreme right with the tree no longer central, but I haven't replaced this one as I value the comments people have left. Thanks, by the way!
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Mary Brown
{K:71879} 5/27/2007
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Neat panorama, Roger. The panoramic view, as always, gives a sense of seeing the scene as though one were standing there. I know this is i the CritiqueCorner. Howeer, as doing htis kind of work is right out of my range, I can't really offer any suggestions. I definately enjoyed the tout throuh ths s scene.
MAry
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Rob Ernsting
{K:8899} 1/11/2007
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Well thank you Roger, I give it a try cheers.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 1/11/2007
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Thanks, Rob. I redid it with the edge coming to the right of the red temple and the left of the large gate, so the latter is no longer cut in two. Looks better, but not worth deleting this and reloading. I'd lose all the comments, too! To answer your question about software, PTgui now has a MAC version and people are reporting good results. You can try in free. Written by a Dutchman, by the way! (So it MUST be good...) It is now up to version 6 and I have been using it since version 3. Excellent program!
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Rob Ernsting
{K:8899} 1/10/2007
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Great Roger, I love it. 7. I got a fisheye 15mm for my 5D which should have the same effect as your 10mm on the D200. Fos software I use PTlens, but you might have a different source of sw for correction. I would appreciate if you can hint me. Thank you in advance Roger. Cheers.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/27/2006
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Good to hear from you, Keith, and to know the old lady (Widelux) is pleasing you. Bright skies ARE a problem... It's even worse with 360 x 180-degree panoramas!
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Keith Naylor
{K:13064} 11/25/2006
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You are right about the distortion effect, they really do show up in this flat represntation.
BTW - I have been playing with the Widelux over the summer, I find the biggest drawback the lack of a ND graduated filter to offset the bright skies.
Still I'm enjoying myself.
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Valerij Reznikov
{K:3367} 11/24/2006
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Thanks, Roger. I’ll apply your advice as soon as possible. I’ve been too busy moving between two flats (family matters). Now I am stable and surely move to that PTGui forum. Valery
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/24/2006
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Glad you liked it. I felt I should have shifted the L and R borders to between buildings, but apart from that I like it. Visit www.fsoft.it/ panorama/fspviewer.htm for a nice downloadable viewer. It is free, not big, and you just drag and drop any of my panorama JPEGs on it and you will see them without distortion and with the ability to pan, zoom, and scan. The files here on Usefilm.com are rather too small for full screen viewing... but you can see the effect nicely in a 600 x 600 window. Enjoy!
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/24/2006
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Thank you, Valery. I use the latest version PTgui, same as you I believe. I had serious dynamic range problems but I found a simple solution. I shoot RAW, and bracket them +/- one stop (sometimes one and TWO stops). THen I choose the best RAW file (the one with the highlights JUST beginning to burn out) in each direction. I convert from RAW to a 16-bit file (because 16-bits can cover the entire dynamic range in the original) and then I use TONE-MAPPING on the 16-bit image to convert it to 8-bit JPEG. Of course you might want to use a 16-bit workflow, but I don't feel the need. This is the key stage. By tweaking the tone-mapping a little in each direction, I try to get the sky looking about the same, and the ground looking about the same, but I don't take too much trouble. Roughly similar is OK. Then I stitch with PTgui, which blends any slight differences very nicely (as you can see in this panorama). Hope this helps. I wish I could help with your in-room panos. If you join the Panotools NG group and give links to your original photos there are people who will check them and tell you how to optimize them. I am sure it is an optimization problem if you have the right nodal point.
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Tim Schumm
{K:29196} 11/24/2006
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Hey wow this a cool vision. Flat or 360 the composition it excellent. Looks like the D200 is working well enough. what or where is there a virtual browser?
Turns out i have PTgui 5.4 and the current version available is 6.03.....looks like i need a upgrade.
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Valerij Reznikov
{K:3367} 11/24/2006
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As always excellent pano, Roger.
But I have some questions as usual. What PTGui version do you use. How do you overcome wide dynamic range problem – manually or you apply some program.
As for me – I have now PTGui 6.01. and Autopano 1.0.3 CR3 (the latest version. They moved from CR2 in a fortnight!) –. Both are very good. Autopano has a better editing menu. PTgui has in turn rectilinear projection which is absent in Autopano. So I use both.
I still can’t do adequate “inside a room panos”. I know all about nodal points. So the problem is somewhere else. I use 19 mm. lens, 50 % overlap. The programs (both) displace some lines. Valery
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/23/2006
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It's not just you, Doyle, they are very difficult without dedicated software to help you along the way. Software has improved a lot over the last year or so, and I wouldn't have attempted a stitching project like this until quite recently! One problem is not stitching, but the wide dynamic range (shooting both WITH and AGAINST the sun!). I shot the above RAW and tone-mapped the 16-bit images to 8-bit JPEGs before I started stitching. There: probably more than you wanted to know. [grin]
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 11/23/2006
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Is it me Roger or are the wide angle shots rediculously difficult to stitch?? This is brilliant!
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Leo Régnier Я£
{K:67696} 11/23/2006
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Very interesting picture!!!!!!
Leo
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/23/2006
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As always, you are generous with your praise, Jose.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/23/2006
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Thank you, Ali, I'm glad you liked it.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/23/2006
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Hi, Riny. Yes, I used a full-frame fisheye and took six shots to stitch them all together. There were more sky and foreground, but I trimmed them away for this presentation.
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 11/22/2006
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wonderful panorama.marvelous tones. stunning compsoition. outstanding. 7+++
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Riny Koopman
{K:102911} 11/22/2006
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Hi Roger,did you use a wide lens..? best regards from riny
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 11/22/2006
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Wonderful panorama and very impressive Architecture image of very great DOF and composition
All of the best my friend
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