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 by dervish16 on Sun Apr 24, 2011 3:09 pm
On the way back from mushroom picking I stopped at Jamberoo Mountain to get a panorama of the sunset. Although I had my family with me so time was restricted haha. When I was forced to leave after 50 minutes of shooting and watch from the car driving down the Jamberoo mountain I looked west and saw one of the most vibrant sunsets I've seen in while. But wouldn't have been able to get that as the lookout was facing east. Used my Lee 0.6 grad but my 0.9 grad would have been perfect but got sent a ND 0.9 instead and have to wait for them to send my g0.9 grad. Camera was leveled perfectly. When I combined the pano in photoshop the TIFF file came out as 3.12gb haha. So this 300k compressed image has lost it's punch and the colours look at lot more dull but nothing I can do. Hope you like them. Would love to get some comments on how I can improve my panorama shots next time. This was taken before the sunset and loved how the sun light was rolling over the highland. Only thing that I'm disappointed with is the stitch photoshop did as it left vertical lines that are noticeable at full size. Stitch it twice and still got it. Might try again another time but not bothered at the moment and I did overlay the images. Camera - Nikon D90 Exposure - 0.3 Aperture - f/14 Focal Length - 31 mm ISO Speed - 100  Pretty happy with the final stick except for the fisheye effect on the horizon. I sticked 9 vertical RAW images together and combined them in photoshop photomerg. Tried to get rid of the distortion but I lost some of the rocks and blurred trees on the left which I think adds a lot to the image so I left it. CameraNikon - D90 Exposure - 3 Aperture - f/16.0 Focal Length - 36 mm ISO Speed - 100  Paparazzi images. Such a great spot will have to go again for a sunrise.  Cheers  Chris
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by Remorhaz on Sun Apr 24, 2011 6:48 pm
Yes the vertical lines are a bit distracting - how much overlap did you have between the images (I tend to go for 50% when I'm doing panos).
It looks like a very nice vista. I'd probably try and brighten the exposure on the ground and darken the sky a little more and perhaps try and get more contrast going on the land in the valley.
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by aim54x on Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:07 pm
Looks like you have a very nice spot there. Definitely worth a revisit if it is not too far away for you
Yes those vertical lines are distracting....since I started using Auto Pano Pro I have not had this problem.
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by dervish16 on Sun Apr 24, 2011 10:56 pm
Remorhaz wrote:Yes the vertical lines are a bit distracting - how much overlap did you have between the images (I tend to go for 50% when I'm doing panos).
It looks like a very nice vista. I'd probably try and brighten the exposure on the ground and darken the sky a little more and perhaps try and get more contrast going on the land in the valley.
I had 4 images for that pano so there would be a bit of overlay, around 40%. Yeah in the full res image the sky is dark but I could boost the ground a bit more except I don't want to bring in noise but then again the image is already super sharp because of the 9 images so I might do that. aim54x wrote:Looks like you have a very nice spot there. Definitely worth a revisit if it is not too far away for you
Yes those vertical lines are distracting....since I started using Auto Pano Pro I have not had this problem.
It's around a 40 minute drive from my place. My place is pretty much on the water just to the right of the centre of the sunset image. Yeah have not been happy with photoshop photomerg recently. Do you think Auto Pano Pro is much better?
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by aim54x on Mon Apr 25, 2011 12:05 am
dervish16 wrote:Yeah have not been happy with photoshop photomerg recently. Do you think Auto Pano Pro is much better?
I only have Photoshop CS2 (ancient - with a really dodgy photomerge tool) so Auto Pano Pro runs rings around it. I have heard that the newer Photoshop versions have gotten better. Best to give it a whirl and see what you think. There is a free trial, although it is handicapped. http://www.kolor.com/download-autopano-panotour-panorama-virtual-tour-software.htmlCameron Nikon F/Nikon 1 | Hasselblad V/XPAN| Leica M/LTM |Sony α/FE/E/Maxxum/M42Wishlist Nikkor 24/85 f/1.4| Fuji Natura BlackScout-Images | Flickr | 365Project
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by dervish16 on Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:14 pm
aim54x wrote:Best to give it a whirl and see what you think.
Yeah I tried it yesterday and the horizon was perfect and tried the pano with CS5 and it was wonky so will stick with Autopano Pro. Thanks
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by surenj on Tue Apr 26, 2011 12:46 pm
Hi Chris,
In addition to all the suggestions by others, could I suggest cropping #1 from below a little. I think the foreground is good but slightly dominates the image. It's hard to critique panos at this size though.
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