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A look into Euroland

Postby trebs on Wed May 11, 2005 10:00 pm

Hi All.

By the looks of it, 99% of the people here are from the opposite side of the world to me. I hope you don't mind me sticking my face in.
As a small intro:
I'm Rob. A brit, living in Belgium. Had a D70 for just over a year and lovin' it. Panoramas are my main thing, and here's one I made locally. A sad ruin from the 1700's


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Regards, Trebs.

(Doesn't fit the suggested 800pix wide, but it's pretty narrow, hope nobody minds.)
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Postby birddog114 on Wed May 11, 2005 10:02 pm

Hi Rob,
Welcome! will they (the owner) fix or renovate it?
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Postby MHD on Wed May 11, 2005 10:02 pm

Awesome first pic to post on the forum! excellent way to begin...

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Postby trebs on Wed May 11, 2005 10:08 pm

birddog:
Cheers. I've been tracing the history of the place and I've found the owner, Apparently there is some planning dispute that's been going on for 10 years or more. A real shame.

MHD:
Thanks.. a pleasure to be here. surrounded by fellow D70 nuts.

Of course, the advantage of making panos, even of something this simple.. I can print them nice and BIG. I have this photo hanging in my office printed at a metre wide.

Regards, Trebs.
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Postby birddog114 on Wed May 11, 2005 10:12 pm

Thanks Trebs,
It should be a very nice mansion if it's restored to its original. Just a waste!
You've done a great nice job in pano!
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Postby Glen on Wed May 11, 2005 10:19 pm

Nice image Trebs, and like Birddy it seems such a waste
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Postby johndec on Wed May 11, 2005 10:27 pm

trebs, great first post and welcome to the forum. Don't worry, we have plenty of OS members. Poms, Yanks, Canadians, Koreans, New Zealanders, French (just off the top of my head) and many are very active members of our community. Hopefully you will be too :lol:
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Postby Andyt on Wed May 11, 2005 10:36 pm

Welcome Trebs!,

Yes, they even have a West Australian here!! :lol:

Awesome pic, I like the B&W effect, and the atmosphere,

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Postby Hlop on Wed May 11, 2005 10:37 pm

Good place for a horror movie :)

Nice image. Welcome trebs!
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Postby Charlie Chalk on Wed May 11, 2005 10:40 pm

Hi trebs

Really like the picture.

Can you let us know what method you used to create the Panoramic & B and W effect?

Cheers

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Postby big pix on Wed May 11, 2005 10:54 pm

Welcome trebs......... nice to have you here...... good pix and good b&w.......

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Postby trebs on Wed May 11, 2005 11:02 pm

CC, I shot this buy hand, 4 images in portrait with about 20% overlap on each image. To stitch the images together I use Panotools and PTgui.
It takes a bit of time and experience, but the method is reasonably straight forward.

As for the B/W, I used Photolab CSI monochrome filter in CorelPaint. There I can tweak hue, saturation and exposure. Together they offer a good amount of control over the "feel". Plain desaturated Black and white was just too cold for this image so I warmed it a tad with the browns.

Finally, I added a new layer and airbrushed around the edges of the image to give that spooky feel. The layer's opacity can then be adjusted to enhance the feel. The vignette effect also draws the eye to the centre of the shot.

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Postby embi on Wed May 11, 2005 11:05 pm

Roll the Adams Family theme song....

Very eerie. Great image. Bring on more of those.
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Postby Charlie Chalk on Wed May 11, 2005 11:19 pm

Do you use CorelPaint for all your PP'ing?

I haven't used that since v6, never understood why it didn't catch on.

Once again great image, bet it looks really good 1m wide!

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Postby sirhc55 on Wed May 11, 2005 11:59 pm

Welcome Trebs and as others before me have said - a great shot and would love to see lots more :D
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Postby flipfrog on Thu May 12, 2005 1:09 am

nice image..
reminds me of the house in the movie, "the others"


p.s. welcome!
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Postby trebs on Thu May 12, 2005 1:17 am

thanks again everyone.. for the warm welcome and the comments.
I will indeed post more.
In the mean time.. there are a few on my site. http://www.vistapan.com

I've a heap more that I need to upload too.

CC, I use Corel V8 for about 90% of all my editing. It's been a solid workhorse and doesn't lack much that even the latest PS versions have.
I also use Elements 2 and PS5LE, mostly to check compatibility of Corel's in/output of .PSD files.
I'll have to upgrade one day, I know. It'll probably be CS2 as industry is biased that way.

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