Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 9/6/01 4:53 PM, Pablo Kolodny at pkolodny@fibertel.com.ar wrote: > By the way, where was taken the "skyline-flat" ? this was taken from the edge of the railway yards just east of downtown Toronto > What did you use to achieve such results ? it's a long story but... shoot 360 degrees of overlapping frames of 35mm film using a 17mm lens scan the files use special (free/shareware) programs called ptgui and panotools to reorient the images, correct yaw pitch and roll, and finally remap the images to a cylindrical projection build these into a layered file in Photoshop and use layer masks to blend them together > Congratulations... > And now, let me suggest you to switch your works into the big lovely dreamy > black and white world... Just my personal taste, it should not be taken as a > critic stuff. all of these pans are produced as both color and bw images. Both of these were much stronger in color as it happens. The underpass one really doesn't work in bw because the red sofa doesn't jump out at you. - -- John Brownlow http://www.pinkheadedbug.com