Panorama thread nr. 62 *large files*

Hi all,

I'm glad to say that we have been seeing a fair number of new contributors these past months.

Welcome each and everyone of you and thanks for joining us!

So, once again, if you have stitched panoramas that you would like to share, feel free to add
them here.

If adding your work, please respond to this first message and change the subject line to reflect your contribution.

Pictures may have been taken at any time, and with any camera. 
Please do not forget to mention the location of your images. 
Adding some technical details is also welcome.

To see all images properly, make sure that you are in 'Threaded view'.

And if you don't have panoramas to share (yet), I invite you to comment and join the discussion just the same!

Cheers,

André

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Hello and congrat for creating NEW thread

In previous thread I post two images of a light house located 1 hr driving far from my home.  This is a panoramic view from opposite side viwing shining sun and inland sea.

EOS7D Sigma17-70mmF2.8-4 PTguiPro

Regards

HAMADA



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Follow Link BELOW for full panorama of Frodsham in Cheshire UK

I have been asked to repost this in this thread by private message.

Frodsham Panoramic     <<<<<<<<<<< THIS IS THE LINK

This panoramic which I took last week is the biggest I have ever attempted. It is built with 135 images, between 25 to 28 across and 5 rows. Don't miss the zoom tool and follow the image in and pan around. The original image is 69,128 x 7866px, but to make this small enough to host on my webspace I had to shrink it by 50% and compress the jpg to 10 (photoshop).

EXIF (for those who like to see)

Model Canon PowerShot SX50 HS
Date/time 17/02/2013 15:32:43
Image
Exposure time 1/200 s
F-number f/5.6
ISO speed ratings ISO 80
Exposure bias value 0.00 eV
Metering mode Center weighted average
Focal length 33.805 mm
Custom Rendered Normal process
Exposure mode Manual exposure
White balance Manual white balance

Method (been asked by pm)

I stitched the images row by row and then stitched the rows as a vertical stack using PS photomerge. Cropped the image and saved as large document format (1.5GB). I then shrank the image to 50% and used a minute amount of levels to bring down the bright spots at the horizon and retain a little more lush around the village. A touch of sharpening and that was it. I was surprised how little post processing it needed, I got lucky with the light.

The next step I found by accident really, I wanted to save the full image as jpg but PS wont save LARGE images as anything but psb (large document format) or an unusable tif (unusable by anything other than PS). So I thought I would try exporting and found zoomify. This is what you see on my website. Zoomify breaks the image down into tiny little chunks and saves a wad of folders that you upload to your own webspace or view locally in your browser. The SWF viewer and html is also provided during the export, you don't need to be able to write html at all.

Using zoomify I was able to bring the image down to 70MB for web viewing and because it does it in small chunks most people can view the image with only slight delays while your browser loads the individual data, it does not sit there and download 70MB, only what you look at. For interest, the full sized zoomify copy is 232MB which is too big for me to host on my sites.

I hope this answers some of the questions I was asked by PM, I would be interested to hear any views on the image at Frodsham Panoramic remind people to use the zoom (which also works with the mouse wheel) and do scroll around. I am very pleased with this image (there are a couple of small mistakes) and very pleased that it holds full focus to 100% zoom. I have been playing with panoramic for years but never attempted anything this large before, it was seat of pants as I had no idea at all if it would work, I did not use the in camera wizards as they give zero control of focus and IQ. So I just lined up by eye using Live View and a level tripod (this took ages to level through 180° .

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Frodsham Panoramic

Hi,

very nice work and fun to surf around in the zoomify image.

I tried hard to find stitching errors with no success

The only thing I was able to detect is a suspicious white van which I found 5 times along the road. But still not sure because only reading the plates could prove it's really the same. It proves that you shot in quite fast sequence. Even then taking that amount of shots would demand some time what makes me wonder about the lighting which remained so stable over that time.

Congrats.

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After spending more time looking at your panorama, and it is a great job, i have found many stitching errors on the right end involving vegetation.  I am questioning the need to include that in an otherwise error less panorama, so I would recommend cropping about where the errors start as it would be very difficult to correct many of these with cloning.   Dave

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A few weeks ago, I posted this view:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50794384

I also visited another mountain part around the same lake (Reschensee). Only pity that there were some trees blocking my view.

10 shots handheld (portrait mode) with Nikon D800E and 60mm micro lens. Original image contains EXIF GPS data. Looking down @ the Reschensee.

If you look closely at the original image (10K pixels wide!) you can even see the famous submerged church tower. The small village you see at the shore of the lake is called Graun.

This is the direct link to the location were I was standing: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=46.788506,10.516200&t=h&z=15

Stitched with PTGui Pro.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reschensee

It’s a beauty, Captain, thanks for sharing it

I love the end of Venosta/Vinschgau Valley and its beautiful villages.

Glurns/Glorenza and its medieval wall, die Abtei Marienberg/Abbazia di Monte Maria and the submerged village of  Graun Vinschgau/ Curon Venosta are my favourite sites.

Thanks again

Vitto

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Hi,

excellent work. I'm also great fan of alpine regions.

One minor quirk only is the sky / cloud rendering which for my taste is a little bit over the top.

Correction: in the smaller size the blue of the sky and the cloud contrasts appear over the top but in the 100% view the look is fine.

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Cheers, Michael Fritzen

I think this one needs to be restitched with a different program.  There are many stitching errors in the tree right-center.  Also a power tower by the town is obliterated and the wires that come into town are not there as they stop with the tower on the hill to the right of the town.  The colors are a bit off as well.  I would want to be told of these problem if it were mine.

Restitching might take care of the problems.  What is the tower in the lake that looks like the top of a church for?  Is it a lighthouse?   I would love to live there.  I wonder what it is like in Winter.  Dave

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The tower in the lake is exactly what you think it is: a submerged church tower! (as I told before in my original posting )

Read the wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reschensee

About the power line: that's not a stitching error! It just stops there! I've checked the original individual images, and the big power tower in the woods is just the last one overthere.

Colors are off? What do you mean?

The lake has this special greenish color (it's all melting water from the snow capped mountains surrounding it). And the sky is really that blue, especially high summer, strong contrasts.

This is how it looks right now:

http://www.reschenpass.it/en/winter/information/webcam.asp

some webcams (live)

Yes, I've have been searching for houses overthere, but the prices are even higher then here in The Netherlands. And it is very difficult to buy something, especially if you are not a local...

(although EU regulation should guarantee equal opportinuties, but it doesn't)

That made me laugh when I noticed it too. I was able to really hurry through the middle rows as there was no fauna requiring me to move the flexizone focus around on each shot. The whole shoot on exif times took 55 minutes with around half an hour to set up.

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Frodsham Panoramic

The trouble David, there has been a quite a bit of building work going on in the area and to chop the bottom as you suggest would miss out on these new plots. I have a panorama from the same spot from 10 years ago, it is shocking how much has changed and how little I have noticed from the ground.

It's too late to go a cropping now anyway.

I'm going to need a big frame!

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Frodsham Panoramic

two rows of 8 shots in landscape mode, 300mm on (FINALLY!) a nice clear day after a snowstorm.

Pentax K-5, DA 55-300 @ 300mm f11. Stitched in PtGui.

Cheers!

Lloyd

p.s. where do you print these things online? My local lab is a bit pricey!

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I should have said that there is a blotchiness in the sky. If you look at the sky surrounding the tree right center, it is lighter around the edges than the rest of the sky. If you zoom in on the sky it gets a little dark in some areas and not others. It is rather strange. Maybe it was that way, but I don't think so.

Does this look a little better to you?   The sky around the tree is still lighter though.

Also, what is this structure.

It is a very interesting pano Captain, and I like it.

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This is nice, but could be better if you cloned out the rooftops along the bottom left. As far as printing goes, I usually print my panos on canvas and use Canvas on Demand, and wait for one of their sales. If you sell any commercially, you can sign up for their pro account, and it is a little cheaper. Dave

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The pano might look better if you just place some spacer wood behind it to set it out a little from the wall and hang it without a frame.  That is what I like best.  Dave

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Hi,

taken in May 2012 near the village of Oberstdorf with the main ridge of the northern Alpes still covered with snow.



Vista from the north western side of the valley with Oberstdorf on the left side



Vista west-east with Nebelhorn left, Schattenberg centre-left and snow covered Schneck centre-right

Both Sony A850 + Sigma HSM 2,8/24-70, No.1 8 shots in portrait orientation, No.2 3 shots in landscape orientation; RAW conversion in C1Pro V.6.5.2, stitched in ICE.

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stunning

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