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Story Bridge pano
We had an all too brief storm yesterday arvo.
Just before the rain, I snapped some pix for a pano of the Story Bridge & Brisbane skyline. Can members recommend successful pano procedure? Even though I have 2Gb of RAM, I still ran into memory problems. Maybe I am working with too many images - this one is 6 landscape images. I seemed to have more difficulty with portrait images. It appears to me that working with the RAW files just can't be done because of memory issues - is this the case? Anyway, here's the pic:  Last edited by the foto fanatic on Sat May 14, 2005 11:01 pm, edited 1 time in total.
TFF (Trevor)
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Thanx for the compliments - I wish I knew what I was doing!
I downloaded a trial version of ArcSoft PanoramaMaker that I used to stitch the images, and I did some PP in PS Elements.. I use Windows XP. What else is out there? TFF (Trevor)
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Great shot Cricketfan - the bridge is a perfect subject for a pano.
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Hmmm. A brilliant Brissy pano Trevor. Gonna have to get out there and do some more myself! You've really handled that blown sky very well. Everything is beautifully exposed. Great stuff! My only SMALL criticism would be that I would have liked to have seen the tops of the buildings and a little more of the northern end of the bridge (though I supposed your view would have been restricted at that end).
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Thanx Simon. The sky is blown - I guess if you are shooting into the sun it is always going to be an issue. I metered for the buildings along the river, and set the camera manually for that reading for all 6 pix. It was a gamble that the result could still work. I am at sixes and sevens with panos - they are hard to display effectively on a screen. This one looks quote good when enlarged, but you have to scroll across the screen. Maybe I'll print this one and see how it looks. TFF (Trevor)
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Good pano ........ I am using the same software but other than a few indoor tests an 1 exterior I do not any to show. As I am on mac there is not a lot of pano software. Photomerge in PSCS works but is better with an after market plugin panotools which does your lens corrections and other features. There is more Pano software for PC
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Nice work Trevor. Agree with the other comments about the lopped buildings. We will have to line up a morning when you can shoot a repeat with a good looking floater between the peaks on the bridge.
 Steve
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Steve I would like to join that shoot if it is ok, as I still have a lot to learn about panos.......
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Cricketfan,
That's not at all bad.. Controlling the exposure when the sun is included in a pano is tricky. I either use a good F22 to try and minimise the overall bleaching effect, or I'll deliberatly underexpose the shots and pull out what I can in from the RAW image. Saying that, the blown effect in this shot doesn't really disturb the image. As mentioned, the cropped buildings is a bit of a shame. I find it's one of those typical pano probs though. You want to get as much in as possible but when it comes to final output, some of the image is cropped off. Don't stop shooting in portrait either ! As for software, have you tried panotools and PTGUI? This combo has a great deal of control and accuracy. Well worth looking into. I think it's also kinder to RAM too, I often have single row panos of 14 images. I only notice the strain on the system when the software is actually calculating the blend. I've just ordered a pano head (kingPano) so I can do decent multi-rows. That'll really test the workflow... ! Regards. Trebs.
That's an awesome pano! Would have been tricky getting the exposure when shooting into the sun like that, rats on the tops of the buildings but great joining/stitching. Did ArcSoft PanoramaMaker work directly with the RAW files?
I'm still using the lazy mans Autostitch but that works on jpegs so I was looking for something that used TIFFs (which I suppose would consume more resources with large TIFFs), might give that a try... Haven't tried merging in PSCS, wil have to give that a try... Anyone got any tips using PSCS for merging? Cheers. Aka Andrew
Well done Trevor, Pano's are hard but i like them lots, but anyhow you have done well.
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great shot trevor...
only advice i have regarding panos is to shoot in portrait and use ev lock. raw will obviously help with some of those accidental mistakes. i use panorama factory for my panos... but have also had good results with autostitch. cheers http://www.markcrossphotography.com - A camera, glass, and some light.
I've just noticed that I have the tops of the buildings in my original - I must have done something in resizing for the web.
I'll see if I can repost. TFF (Trevor)
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Thanx. I used the 50mm f1.4. I think the series of 6 shots were 1/60 sec at f5. TFF (Trevor)
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