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Subject: [Leica] Orford Street Scene - Full Size - now pano
From: r.s.taylor at comcast.net (Richard Taylor)
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 15:23:32 -0500
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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
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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