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I took this shot today, 124 shots. I am learning all I can about Pano shooting before I go to Yellowstone. Here is a small version of the photo. I used Autopano and it did a great job. There are a few areas that are a little off but that is due to me and how I took the shots. Here is the photo, I did some post work to it, let me know what you think. There is a watermark from Autopano on the photo because I do not own the software yet. I will soon seeing how easy it is to use.



The full photo is here: If it does not download right away, try in a bit, it is uploading to my server. "



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Very surreal effect there, the hyper-saturation and hard edges, sci-fi looking color. The cars all transparent on the freeway are proving very distracting for me, however. What is your goal for shooting these pano's? Some here do it to print huge, and they dust don't make 24-36mp dslr's yet, some do it to get in wider angles than otherwise possible. I've tried both styles, and I'm not sure which one I'm going to end up using more.

What focal length lens were you shooting that it took 124 shots to cover this area?!?!
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I am going to Yellowstone later this year and want to perfect taking panos so I can print large, like 5'X10' and up with a lot of detail. I used 70mm focal length at one tic increments on my RRS ball head. Next time I know I can probably take 1/2 the shots or even less to get the same photo. The cars, well, that is part of the deal when stiching, not much I could do there, unless I just don't know. Anyways, I want to get some panos of the tetons, as well as areas in Yellowstone so that is why.

Thanks!!!

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cycle61 said:
Very surreal effect there, the hyper-saturation and hard edges,
sci-fi looking color. The cars all transparent on the freeway are
proving very distracting for me, however.
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The cars add some motion to the pano. They look alright to me; however, how about a adding a blurring the cars more in PS to look like they are moving faster.
 
In my experience a 1/3 overlap works well. To achieve this I use the outer focus points as markings. After I take the first shot I look where the right focus point is over the subject. Then I move the camera to the right until the left focus point is over the same area, and so on. The advantage of this technique over using markings on your tripod is that it works exactly the same for any focal length. BTW, I do not make many panos but if I do I usually shoot them handheld with this technique. Of course, using a tripod is better if you want to be sure it works out.
Hooper said:
I am going to Yellowstone later this year and want to perfect
taking panos so I can print large, like 5'X10' and up with a lot of
detail. I used 70mm focal length at one tic increments on my RRS
ball head. Next time I know I can probably take 1/2 the shots or
even less to get the same photo. The cars, well, that is part of
the deal when stiching, not much I could do there, unless I just
don't know. Anyways, I want to get some panos of the tetons, as
well as areas in Yellowstone so that is why.

Thanks!!!

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Philip

 
Wow. Thats one insanely large shot.

But what did you do to the sky? Paint it in in photoshop? The edges look very strange some places.
 
What kind of computer setup have you got?

Must have been very long to process all 124 files in your stitching S/W?

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Michel
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Hooper said:
The cars, well, that is part of
the deal when stiching, not much I could do there, unless I just
don't know.
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Some programs, like PTGUI if I'm not mistaken, export the pano as layers. Then you can erase the part of the layer without the car that's over the car in the other layer, so you see the car in whole and not transparent. You can also remove the cars to get an empty street.

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Philip

 
This is really cool, I did not know that about the layers. I guess that would make sense. Thank you!!!

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Yeah, the sky was just grey yesterday so I painted the sky in. I also put some insane sharpening in to get this look, I am going to try the Lucas Art plugin next time. This is all a big experiement anyways. Now when I go to Yellowstone, I want everything to look natural so I won't process this way.

Thanks!!!

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It took forever. I run an AMD 2G with 1G Ram system and my HD is almost full slowing things even more. It was crazy.

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Another thing some photographers do is first shoot the base pano, and then wait without moving the camera. When something happens, like a car or an animal comes into the frame, they shoot these items separately. Because you kept everything the same you can easily blend these images into the pano.

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Philip

 
Still trying to upload, am having some network issues. Try later this morning.

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Hooper said:
I am going to Yellowstone later this year and want to perfect
taking panos so I can print large, like 5'X10' and up with a lot of
detail. I used 70mm focal length at one tic increments on my RRS
ball head. Next time I know I can probably take 1/2 the shots or
even less to get the same photo. The cars, well, that is part of
the deal when stiching, not much I could do there, unless I just
don't know. Anyways, I want to get some panos of the tetons, as
well as areas in Yellowstone so that is why.

Thanks!!!
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I shoot a lot (I mean a LOT!) of panos of mountain scenes here in Colorado. For what you are doing, 150 or even 75 image panels seems excessive even for a 5'x10' print. I would look into using a 35mm or 50mm lens as the 70mm seems too long. When you get too many images to stitch together you are going to need a very powerful computer with many gigs of ram. I would try to get your shots in the 10 to 20 panels for single row and double that for two row panos.

If you are just trying to see how big a pano you can do, go for it. If you are trying to get a great print with a lot of detail I would cut down the number of panels and make your life a lot easier.

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I agree, this was way too many shots for something like this and it did take forever to process. I was really just experimenting and learning.

Thanks for the feedback.

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