Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/12/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Love it. Perspective perfect. The multiple appearances of kid and her Mom make it fun. Regards, Dick On Dec 04, 2009, at 3:02 PM, philippe.amard wrote: > My mistake sorry > > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/PAW-2009/2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg.html > > view it large - 'green' pano head made of a piece of wine crate grossly > drilled through where I had found the nodal point was - stitched in PSE > v.2 ... > > bien ? toi > Philippe > > > > Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:53, Richard Taylor a ?crit : > >> >> Philippe - The image didn't come through. Did you intend to send this >> off list? >> >> In any case, I'm too lazy to carry a tripod with a proper pan head around >> when I travel. I know a photographer on the Cape* who, among other >> things, makes really large panos that he sells to companies as office >> decoration. Each pane is individually framed with no overlap allowed on >> the negs. Some of his work is 30 feet wide. He ran through his routine >> for me once, demonstrating the specially marked pan head with exactly >> located nodal point and built-in bubble level, etc., etc. The results >> are spectacular but, ye gods, what a lot of work! >> >> I'm going to count on the approximate approach and use PS to glue the >> frames together. :-) >> >> Regards, >> >> Dick >> >> *Cape Cod, that is. >> >> On Dec 04, 2009, at 2:28 PM, philippe.amard wrote: >> >>> Pleasure Dick, >>> I'm on the LUG for this kind of exchange too. >>> >>> Rotation: I think the trick is to find the, is it ' nodal point ' of the >>> lens, then things should be easy - I had made myself a wooden >>> contraption for experiments, >>> >>> 2009-PAW-12-ChronoPanoGraph.jpg >>> >>> which I never furthered, but will, euh, when I have decided myself to >>> buy a real rail/head for panos ... >>> >>> >>> Keep playing and sharing Dick >>> Thanks again >>> Philippe >>> >>> >>> Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 20:04, Richard Taylor a ?crit : >>> >>>> >>>> You are welcome Philippe. This kind of discussion is one of the things >>>> I really like about the LUG. Unfortunately, things don't always work >>>> out quite this well. Later today I hope to post a shot that I had to >>>> torture into (near) acceptability. >>>> >>>> As I said in an earlier post, I've learned that it's very important to >>>> rotate the camera about one axis only to get good results easily. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Dick >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Dec 04, 2009, at 12:05 PM, philippe.amard wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you Richard >>>>> >>>>> It is really good - and even XXL ( > 1.6m x 1.2 now I guess) remains >>>>> fairly sharp. >>>>> >>>>> About the wire, I was curious to see if the connection between the >>>>> shots showed, it does. >>>>> So may be a couple of minutes to dub it out it in PS would be less of >>>>> a penalty. >>>>> >>>>> Now as to the view; this is exactly what I am dreaming a WA could do; >>>>> no distortion, and something very close to human sight (span), mine at >>>>> least. It gives a feeling of being there, in media res, wondering what >>>>> had happened to the wing of the car, of which way to go; proceed along >>>>> the path, or ring the bell and ask my way (wink). >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for all your efforts, they were well worth the result. >>>>> >>>>> Bien cordialement >>>>> Philippe >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Le 4 d?c. 09 ? 17:50, Richard Taylor a ?crit : >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I just uploaded a full-size version of this image, the one that >>>>>> Philippe and I were discussing yesterday. It's 6643 x 3944 pixels at >>>>>> 72 dpi. >>>>>> >>>>>> As a reminder, this is a 3-pane photomerge done in PSCS4 via >>>>>> Lightroom. It was taken with a Panasonic G-1 and 20mm f1.7 Panasonic >>>>>> pancake lens at ISO 400 with the camera held vertically for the three >>>>>> shots. The sky was overcast and the lighting grey and flat. The >>>>>> only adjustments to the three images prior to merging were minor >>>>>> exposure equalization and the addition of some fill light to bring up >>>>>> the texture in the bricks while retaining texture in the sky. There >>>>>> was no sharpening that I remember (I don't have the original file >>>>>> available at the moment, so I can't confirm that) though it probably >>>>>> should have had some. Like the Aldeburgh image I posted recently, >>>>>> this one would probably look better in B&W, too. >>>>>> >>>>>> In any case, here it is. >>>>>> >>>>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/England_2009/lg_orford_street_scene.jpg.html >>>>>> or >>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/y9ky4o7 >>>>>> >>>>>> I look forward to hearing your comments. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> >>>>>> Dick >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information