36 shot portrait panorama

[andybarton]

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[carstenw]

Yep, and the developers are somewhat responsive, which is refreshing. I do get the feeling that it is maybe two guys working long hours, which worries me a little, but the software looks good and works well, with relatively few bugs.

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[Philinflash]

I am posting this just to show that PhotoShop CS 3 photomerge facilities can handle fairly complex image composites. This is from 4 panel images shot at noon yesterday.

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[ChrisC]

Philip - That looks very nice, CS3 Photomerge looks encouraging. Did the the file knit well at full resolution or do you think knitting glitches will show on a large print of such urban imagery? I like the image.

 

................Chris

[Guest sirvine]

Ok, Philip...do tell how you managed to get all those moving people to stand still while you got off four shots!

 

I have one too by the way (not a stitch) from CV15: solsphere

[Philinflash]

Philip - That looks very nice, CS3 Photomerge looks encouraging. Did the the file knit well at full resolution or do you think knitting glitches will show on a large print of such urban imagery? I like the image.

 

................Chris

 

Chris,

 

Thanks.

 

The knitting was all done by the software in a few seconds without my manual intervention. The actual PSD file is huge and the image is huge, would go to 20x30 inches easily. There was one minor glitch that I cloned out where two people sort of overlapped. I cloned out the problem easily, though. Although of course I saw the layers but even with that I cannot see the seams at any resolution.

[Philinflash]

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Ok, Philip...do tell how you managed to get all those moving people to stand still while you got off four shots!

 

I have one too by the way (not a stitch) from CV15: solsphere

 

Well, Sol, you know what a pocketful of hundreds will achieve in NY, lol. If you look close, you can see one other photog taking shots from 2 different positions. Two bills for her.

 

Yours is a great wide angle shot from the other end of the joint - a lot of atmosphere. I took the shots literally on a way to a dentist appointment but I want to go back and take some serious shots. The place is a great subject and seeing my first go at it has given me some thoughts about the next one.

 

BTW, I was using the 35 lens in portrait orientation for the 4 shots only hand-held. My desire for a WA has evaporated as I see more and more what PS can do. Anybody need a Hassie SWC?

[ho_co]

Philip--

That's a good shot and a major improvement over previous versions of Photoshop.

 

I can't quite read the sign just to the right of bottom center. Looks like "Serious photography strictly forbidden."

 

Thanks for the demonstration!

 

--HC

[drjon]

Here is a 4-shot pano via the M8 with 24mm F2.8, done with Autopano. I have tried most of the pano software; for value, Autopano is hard to beat; it is also very good at its job, and I find it better than PTGui. It handles lens distrotion very well.

 

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[ChrisC]

Philip - Thank you for your reply. I had presumed all along that that you had used a 'Pano' head with the the lens properly placed with regard to it's nodal point. Given how awful Photomerge has been in CS1, I am amazed that you hand held the shots and it stitched as well as you report. This is great news for me as I have been shooting files for stitching [using a pano head] and setting them aside; it looks like CS3 does the job extremely well. Thank you for sharing your experience, it's very helpful.

 

............... Chris.

 

By the way, I only have one lens, the 24. I have always gone wide with rangefinders and speculated that I would manage wider than 24 mm shots on the M8 by stitching; hence the usefulness of this thread.

[andybarton]

I have tried lots of pano software, and even with PSCS3, find that I can't get skies to merge properly, especially if they are clear blue. AutoPano Pro is the best one that I have come across (and been willing to pay for).

 

The station concourse shot above is very impressive, however.

[Philinflash]

...I am amazed that you hand held the shots and it stitched as well as you report. ...

 

Chris, I am neither a human tripod nor pano head so I can assure you that there were plenty of alignment inconsistences for PS to sort out when blending the images.

 

The PSD image is 17x33.5 inches at 240 ppi resolution for a 98 Mb file. I like the 'longer' lenses for a pano of this sort for the ultimate depth they give you once blended together. Also, I wonder if that doesn't help when the software is doing its blending behind the curtain.

[dist]

Here's another pano, this time stitched with Calico (on a Mac). Fully automatic. These were about 8 or 9 shots. Digilux 3, shot at around 28 mm (35mm equivalent). No tripod used. I have this printed out about one meter wide, looks gorgeous.

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[Philinflash]

Here's another pano, this time stitched with Calico (on a Mac). Fully automatic. These were about 8 or 9 shots. Digilux 3, shot at around 28 mm (35mm equivalent). No tripod used. I have this printed out about one meter wide, looks gorgeous.

 

Excellent, Dieter, I can see my apartment in it. You seem to have no problems with the blue sky. I haven't either with ones I have done in PhotoShop. There are, of course, gradient differences depending on the direction one is shooting but not blending problems.

[Philinflash]

Philip--

That's a good shot and a major improvement over previous versions of Photoshop.

 

I can't quite read the sign just to the right of bottom center. Looks like "Serious photography strictly forbidden."

 

Thanks for the demonstration!

 

--HC

 

TYVM. No doubt about it, the place is P&S heaven. One concern I had was light pollution from the flash of any one of the numerous $200 cameras going off in the room. But I dodged the bullets.

[Philinflash]

At the risk of being tedious on the subject, I am attaching a variant of my earlier posted pano of Grand Central Station. On this one, I swapped out 3 of the 4 panels principally because I liked the dynamic of the 2 guys in suits. It was no harder for PS to blend the layers and no harder for me to do the rest.

 

Apologies in advance.

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[drjon]

Here's another with Autopano and 28mm F2 with M8.

 

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[Philinflash]

Here's another with Autopano and 28mm F2 with M8.

 

 

Fabulous! It almost looks like an artist's rendering and I mean that in the most complimentary sense.

 

How many captures to assemble to the big picture and how big is it?

 

Philip Kozloff

[ho_co]

... I swapped out 3 of the 4 panels principally because I liked the dynamic of the 2 guys in suits. ...

Philip--I like the guys in suits, but you lost the Doppelgängerin! What disrespect for the P&S camera!

 

--HC

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[Guest sirvine]

Jon,

 

How do you keep such straight verticals in your stitch?