New Panorama!

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Dirty_Ass

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Went on an adventure with my roomate the other day, got into an abandoned grain mill. Thirteen photo composite, not perfect, but I still like it
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It's all shot with a nikon d70 with a tamron 50-200mm lens and a b+w filter. All automated through photomerge in PSCS, then PSCS is used for color grading, curves, etc.
 
In my head I said the first one was great when you first posted... I don't know why the telepathic feature of the forum wasn't working that day.

They're both great shots.
 
50 photo composit? Whaaaaaaaaa. You must be making some pretty large prints. I like both your compositions, but the white diffusion is a littles strong in the second photo. I think the diffusion works well in the first, but the second seems a bit faked.
 
50 photo's...that's pretty crazy. My only problem is all the little misalignments, good for friends and family but might have trouble with the judicial eye in real world interpretations. May be hard to pawn it off as an "artistic choice" is all I'm saying....if it was a choice. Was it?
 
do you always have to take around 50 pictures for a panorama pic?
are there any fixed degrees the camera has to be moved to avoid the "little misalignments" kprince was talking about?
can those be avoided at all?
I like the pics!
 
scharky said:
I think the diffusion works well in the first, but the second seems a bit faked.
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I think you're right too. These are both just experiments and won't be printed, so input like this is helpful. Thanks

kprince said:
May be hard to pawn it off as an "artistic choice" is all I'm saying....if it was a choice. Was it?
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No, it wasn't a choice. Some people like distortion in their panoramas, but I find it much more satisfying to create a seamless composite. The distortion and misalingments don't make me happy, but I had already taken 45 minutes to render it on a G5 before I noticed it. Needless to say, for a personal project, I can deal with a flaw or two.

Spartacus said:
do you always have to take around 50 pictures for a panorama pic?
are there any fixed degrees the camera has to be moved to avoid the "little misalignments" kprince was talking about?
can those be avoided at all?
I like the pics!
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No, panoramas can be as little as two pictures. In terms of fixed camera angles, both of these were handheld. Using a tripod doesn't change a thing, because pivoting the camera on its mount will still give you subtle misalingments. You need to pivot the camera on the nodal point, which is the actual film/ccd plane. There are special panoramic tripod attachments, such as the one below;
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But I haven't gotten around to building on yet. So yes, using one of these attachments CAN eliminate all distortion and misalingments. Thanks for the comments
 
I personally have never found the photoshop or any stitch program for that matter to give satisfactory results, and you say it took 45 minutes to render? In 45 minutes, you could do it by hand, paint out things that don't match, make them match yourself. Here is one that I posted not long ago, but is a good example. It is a stitch of 9 photographs, 3 photos wide, 3 exposures for each angle.

SunseetWS-flat.jpg


After the compositing of all the exposure elements, the stitch itself only took about 20 min.
The shot was taken with a 12-24mm lens at 24mm, no special tripod, just a little photoshop magic.

Keep up the good work nik
 
Awesome stich Nik. I've never done the stich before, but I took a couple shots on a beach in Costa Rica a few weeks ago. My first attempt.

stichtestcrop0dp.jpg
 
hm,
scharky - you used a 24mm doesn´t look much distorted... did you correct this somehow?
Isaac, what focal length did you use?
 
Not much distiortion on this lens, it's a great wide angle, hence the reason I use this alot for this type of work.
 
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