On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Brian Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need to get less sleep more often!
I don't have any problems doing that :-) > That's pretty impressive - both the shot(s) and the panorama. > > Not that I'm likely to attempt something similar in the near future but > what sort of workflow is needed to produce this? OK... Shooting: I shoot RAW, fully manual focus & exposure, but AWB. If I have my tripod I use it. I level it with a bulls eye level I carry in my bag & then I level the camera with a hot shoe mounted 2 axis spirit level. If I have no tripod I just try my best to keep things level. For exposure I placed the sun on my RH shoulder, metered the scene, took a shot & checked the histo. I then swung the camera through 360 degrees & noted the exposure variance & dialled in suitable exposure compensation to get the best average exposure. I then bracketed +- 0.7 for each frame just to cover myself :-) Processing: All shots were processed in ACR, & saved as 16 bit, Pro PhotoRGB .tif. The shots were imported into PTGui (or Hugin, it depends on my mood), I let the software have the first crack & generating the control points & then I go in and add extra as needed. The file in this case was output as a .jpg. The .jpg was then edited in PS to remove distracting & unwanted elements (like my shadow :-) & add in sky and grass to fill in the blanks. The final image was run through pano2qtvr to create the QTVR. It sounds like a lot of work but it's not that hard. The computer crunching time to stitch & blend the images & the touching up in PS is the most time consuming part. BTW this is what the flattened image looks like: Small (~120kb) <http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/2409470701_1e06646f50_b.jpg> Large (~715kb): http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2368/2409470701_3a563465c8_o.jpg Give it a go, it's kinda fun & useful when your somewhere the scen calls for a really wide view. Cheers, Dave > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:01:23 +0800, "David Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > said: > > > > G'day All, > > > > After only 3 hours of sleep I managed to drag myself out of bed on > > Sunday morning to go take some piccies. This was one of my efforts > > (~1.8MB Quicktime VR): > > > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/Misc/0042.mov> > > > > K20D, DA* 16-50 f2.8, tripod & spirit levels. > > > > This is Perth cliché shot location number 2, taken between the Kings > > Park war memorials. > > > > Enjoy. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dave > > > > > > PS > > > > This is Perth cliché shot location number 1 > > > > <http://www.arach.net.au/~savage/PESO/peso_014.htm> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
