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It was a rainy day, but i was bored.

My 'tilting' 1D gave me a lot of trouble stitching these together. But i think it looks 'ok'...after a lot of work.

10 photos taken with the 1D/50 1.4 combo with the SAME exposure vertically.

http://photos.lam.ws/family/Home/panorama-view.jpg

Photo is about 1.5MB.

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WSLam
 
It is worth nothing that the Moire is pretty bad with the 1D.

ws
 
I love your town (and your photo of it :-)). Makes me want to move to Hong Kong tomorrow. Fantastic work here in stitching the images together, did you use stitching software or did you put them manually together in Photoshop? Well done. (Now do it again with some nice a.m. or p.m. light).
Sven
 
Thanks.

I manually stitched them in PS. I tried using PhotoStich 3.1, but it didn't work for some reason. But doing this stitch really revealed many bugs with the 1D. The most annoying was was that all the images were TILTED (it's true), so they never align right. And the Moire problem is obvious when you examine the buildings...

ws
Sven Bernert said:
I love your town (and your photo of it :-)). Makes me want to move
to Hong Kong tomorrow. Fantastic work here in stitching the images
together, did you use stitching software or did you put them
manually together in Photoshop? Well done. (Now do it again with
some nice a.m. or p.m. light).
Sven
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WSLam
 
Boy a lot has changed since the last time I rode the the Peak Tram in 1988....

Nice Work!

Ian Schutt
 
Jörg wrote:

The 1D's Canon's most expensive digi cam and yet it has so bad Moire? How's that? Has it got anything to do with the lens?

Is the D60 any better with respect to Moire?
Jörg Lenz said:
WSLam said:
It was a rainy day, but i was bored.

My 'tilting' 1D gave me a lot of trouble stitching these together.
But i think it looks 'ok'...after a lot of work.

10 photos taken with the 1D/50 1.4 combo with the SAME exposure
vertically.

http://photos.lam.ws/family/Home/panorama-view.jpg

Photo is about 1.5MB.

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WSLam
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Yeah, this is great picture! And the view...!
I like it, thanks!

Jörg,
Freiburg, Germany
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I wouldn't know. but moire is a known problem with the 1D.
it's the 50mm/1.4 lens, i doubt it's the lens.

ws
hkg said:
Is the D60 any better with respect to Moire?
hkg76106 said:
WSLam said:
It was a rainy day, but i was bored.

My 'tilting' 1D gave me a lot of trouble stitching these together.
But i think it looks 'ok'...after a lot of work.

10 photos taken with the 1D/50 1.4 combo with the SAME exposure
vertically.

http://photos.lam.ws/family/Home/panorama-view.jpg

Photo is about 1.5MB.

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WSLam
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Yeah, this is great picture! And the view...!
I like it, thanks!

Jörg,
Freiburg, Germany
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WSLam
 
of course! =)

but slight 'imperfection' is that when i put the tripod in vertical position on the tripod head, the camera is no longer 'centered' when you rotate it. given the focusing distance is so far, it should be ok... i will see what i can do next time i try another shot.

ws
Dane said:
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WSLam
 
WSLam said:
Thanks.

I manually stitched them in PS. I tried using PhotoStich 3.1, but
it didn't work for some reason.
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I got the stitcher to work (the one which came with my D30) by doing some testing and I found it really likes a lot of overlap from each image. About 1/3. So I almost do a half of a frame overlap when I shoot something important just to make sure I don't run into trouble. Very nice shot. Please don't pick it to death. It is a marvelous thing.
 
Very nice!

I tried to do something similar 3 weeks ago. The result was pretty bad: that was a hazy day and, as you said, the images were tilted. The buildings were not aligned right (I only tried the Canon's stitching software.) How did you fix it in PS?

Thanks for sharing yours. It is inspiring.

-Eddie
WSLam said:
I manually stitched them in PS. I tried using PhotoStich 3.1, but
it didn't work for some reason. But doing this stitch really
revealed many bugs with the 1D. The most annoying was was that all
the images were TILTED (it's true), so they never align right. And
the Moire problem is obvious when you examine the buildings...

ws
Sven Bernert said:
I love your town (and your photo of it :-)). Makes me want to move
to Hong Kong tomorrow. Fantastic work here in stitching the images
together, did you use stitching software or did you put them
manually together in Photoshop? Well done. (Now do it again with
some nice a.m. or p.m. light).
Sven
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WSLam
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D60: http://eddiewong.com
 
I made a 360 of Tokyo from the Tokyo Tower and Stitch gave me a horrible curve... I think to make it straight I would have to cut off a portion of the bottom pictures. It took 11 photos, orginally had 13. I just held the camera against the glass which was angled down a few degrees. Going to Tokyo to shop for a D60 next week. This was taken with a G1. Never attempted to use PS on the image here as I was not motivated to learn it at the time. Now I know it's value. Good view from your house!!

Tokyo panorama
http://www.pbase.com/image/1966340

Nic
WSLam said:
ws
Dane said:
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WSLam
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Gee, I can see the curvature of the earth ;-}
Texas said:
I made a 360 of Tokyo from the Tokyo Tower and Stitch gave me a
horrible curve... I think to make it straight I would have to cut
off a portion of the bottom pictures. It took 11 photos, orginally
had 13. I just held the camera against the glass which was angled
down a few degrees. Going to Tokyo to shop for a D60 next week.
This was taken with a G1. Never attempted to use PS on the image
here as I was not motivated to learn it at the time. Now I know
it's value. Good view from your house!!

Tokyo panorama
http://www.pbase.com/image/1966340

Nic
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I encountered the same problem with some panoramics I've taken.

For me, the curvature hits when:
1. I use low-mm lenses (17-35 or 28-70) at the widest angle

2. When I don't keep the "equator" of what I'm panning going right through the center of the image.

Barrel distortion will cause parallel lines to not be so and thus cause the whole image to curve. PanaVue Image Assembler reads the EXIF info and undoes some of the distortion, but here should be some PS actions to "flex" the image back into a line, but I haven't been able to find 'em.

Cheers!
Ken Phillips said:
Ken Phillips said:
I made a 360 of Tokyo from the Tokyo Tower and Stitch gave me a
horrible curve...
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is that right? photostitch requires that much overlapping? well when the weather gets nicer, i will try again! thanks!

ws
Robert Burkhalter said:
WSLam said:
Thanks.

I manually stitched them in PS. I tried using PhotoStich 3.1, but
it didn't work for some reason.
Click to expand...
I got the stitcher to work (the one which came with my D30) by
doing some testing and I found it really likes a lot of overlap
from each image. About 1/3. So I almost do a half of a frame
overlap when I shoot something important just to make sure I don't
run into trouble. Very nice shot. Please don't pick it to death.
It is a marvelous thing.
Click to expand...
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WSLam
 
I will do it again when the air is clear. it's always hazy or foggy now. not a good time. but like i said, i was bored! =)

PS, free transform... but it's still not quite right. i am starting to wonder if it's askew instead of a tilt. now that will be bad.

ws
Eddie said:
I tried to do something similar 3 weeks ago. The result was pretty
bad: that was a hazy day and, as you said, the images were tilted.
The buildings were not aligned right (I only tried the Canon's
stitching software.) How did you fix it in PS?

Thanks for sharing yours. It is inspiring.

-Eddie
WSLam said:
I manually stitched them in PS. I tried using PhotoStich 3.1, but
it didn't work for some reason. But doing this stitch really
revealed many bugs with the 1D. The most annoying was was that all
the images were TILTED (it's true), so they never align right. And
the Moire problem is obvious when you examine the buildings...

ws
Sven Bernert said:
I love your town (and your photo of it :-)). Makes me want to move
to Hong Kong tomorrow. Fantastic work here in stitching the images
together, did you use stitching software or did you put them
manually together in Photoshop? Well done. (Now do it again with
some nice a.m. or p.m. light).
Sven
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WSLam
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D60: http://eddiewong.com
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WSLam
 
Hi

Yes, initially, i used my 16-35 and did a few shots, but the distorion is WAY too bad for the images to stitch. so i ended up taking MORE shots using a 50mm lens, thinking that the 50 will give me the least distorion.

but yes you are right again. the problem is you must keep it perfectly horzontal, as in no tilting, cannot pt 'down' or anything. which limits the viewing angle a lot. i will try it another time from a diff 'height'.

oh and btw, i think it is better to take all the shots in MANUAL mode using the SAME exposure. Even so, some of the shots do not look consistent exposure wise.

ws
Nestor Neleusson said:
For me, the curvature hits when:
1. I use low-mm lenses (17-35 or 28-70) at the widest angle
2. When I don't keep the "equator" of what I'm panning going right
through the center of the image.

Barrel distortion will cause parallel lines to not be so and thus
cause the whole image to curve. PanaVue Image Assembler reads the
EXIF info and undoes some of the distortion, but here should be
some PS actions to "flex" the image back into a line, but I haven't
been able to find 'em.

Cheers!
Nestor Neleusson said:
Nestor Neleusson said:
I made a 360 of Tokyo from the Tokyo Tower and Stitch gave me a
horrible curve...
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WSLam
 
Or, use Av/Tv/P and lock the exposure (shutter halfway down, depending on CF settings) and just shoot across.

You should note that all lenses have a bit of darkening towards the edge. Depending on how much overlap you get and the consistency of the overlap, it's hard to get rid of. Since "film is free", I usually do 50% overlap and that, for the most part, hides this. Some tools may adjust this for you.
WSLam said:
oh and btw, i think it is better to take all the shots in MANUAL
mode using the SAME exposure. Even so, some of the shots do not
look consistent exposure wise.
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Thanks for showing such a great panorama of Hong Kong. You have really produced an excellent result and when my wife awakes tomorrow (0012hrs UK) she will spend a long time identifying places that we (MAY) recognise.

We lived there for 3 years, leaving in 1967, and I have many photographic images - taken with my Pentax SV. No digital in those days unfortunately.

We lived on Tai Hang Road, about opposite Mount Butler and had a great view of the harbour and (what were then) the New Territories.

It looks as wonderful as ever and thanks again for such a wonderful view. You obviously worked hard at it and it worked.

Thanks again
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KRs
Bryan
What if, this is as good as it is going to get?
 
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