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Whew, I pulled it off this time! Last year I failed miserably to make a working pano of the gondolas moored at Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy. Those gondolas of course sway wildly in the water, and if you take successive pictures for a pano chances are very great indeed that a lot of things don't line up afterwards.

This time I tried to synchronize things as much as possible, carefully snapped 7 images with the DA10-17@10mm, portrait orientation, f5.0, ISO 100, 1/800s for each image, K10D - and this is the result:



Not perfect, but considering the circumstances I hope at least adequate!

More to come from Venice ...

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What do you mean by synchronize - did you try to time your shots with waves coming in? It seems to have worked out great. What final image resolution did you come out with from those 7 fisheye shots?
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Great work, as usual! I don't have the patience to try stuff like this. My only question is, who bent the boats? :
 
philzucker wrote:
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philzucker said:
Not perfect, but considering the circumstances I hope at least adequate!
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I'm not sure what your understanding of "adequate" is, but it appears to come quite close to my understanding of "perfect".
philzucker said:
More to come from Venice ...
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Glad to hear it.

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SturmMD said:
What do you mean by synchronize - did you try to time your shots
with waves coming in?
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Sort of. Tried to catch the gondolas at their highest point every time. Kind of tricky because they don't sway synchronized ... ;-)
SturmMD said:
It seems to have worked out great.
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Thanks!
SturmMD said:
What final
image resolution did you come out with from those 7 fisheye shots?
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Not that much - a lot of overlap was needed to be on the safe side with the moving gondolas, and of course hand held means that you have to trim a bit at the end. Final size is 7313 pixels wide and 3786 pixels high.

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jonska said:
jonska said:
Not perfect, but considering the circumstances I hope at least adequate!
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I'm not sure what your understanding of "adequate" is, but it appears
to come quite close to my understanding of "perfect".
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Close, but not really there. But I won't point out the faults to you! :-)))
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jonska said:
More to come from Venice ...
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Glad to hear it.
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Thanks! Already working on that.

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Excellent, as usual Phil. I hope everyone scrolls to see the sun at the top, it is an important part of the shot IMO. Very good shooting!

BTW-We were worried about you a while back, didn't see you for a while and thought maybe you were lost in one of your own shots, and didn't know which Phil to get out. Good to see you are still with us.
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That stitching must have been extremely time consuming to get it as good as you did. I really like the trick with using the posts. I didn't even notice what I was being tricked into seeing until you mentioned that the pano isn't "perfect" in your reply here. And I took a good long look I read that comment.

But what would take even longer than an eternity would be actually tilting, stretching, and/or squeezing individual boats in individual frames to make it truly "perfect." That would be where I would draw the line between fun hobby and hard work!

In this image there is something missing I feel. The panorama itself is infinitely cool, and I love the scene, but nonetheless I somehow expect to see a middle-aged female North-American tourist on that little dock looking out to the boats etc.. Just something closer to the camera to fill up that big gap the pano is opening up. Could you put someone in there? Cut off her legs to avoid footing issues?

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honest phil, I don't know how to make this pano.

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KL Matt said:
That stitching must have been extremely time consuming to get it as
good as you did. I really like the trick with using the posts. I
didn't even notice what I was being tricked into seeing until you
mentioned that the pano isn't "perfect" in your reply here. And I
took a good long look I read that comment.

But what would take even longer than an eternity would be actually
tilting, stretching, and/or squeezing individual boats in individual
frames to make it truly "perfect." That would be where I would draw
the line between fun hobby and hard work!
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Hmm, Matt, you inspired me to try again - with a little bit of hard work ;-). I think this one is stitched much better than the original version:


KL Matt said:
In this image there is something missing I feel. The panorama itself
is infinitely cool, and I love the scene, but nonetheless I somehow
expect to see a middle-aged female North-American tourist on that
little dock looking out to the boats etc.. Just something closer to
the camera to fill up that big gap the pano is opening up. Could you
put someone in there? Cut off her legs to avoid footing issues?
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Thanks for the feedback, Matt! Unfortunately I haven't found among my pics the right tourist person, lighted in the right way, to try out you suggestion. I'm afraid I have to leave it as it is, but I see your point. Even a simple foreground element like here - plain shot with DA10-17@10mm, unedited:



adds some needed foreground element to create some more depth and balance.

Thanks for looking and for your comment!

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Rupert60 said:
Excellent, as usual Phil. I hope everyone scrolls to see the sun at
the top, it is an important part of the shot IMO. Very good shooting!
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Thanks, Rupert!
Rupert60 said:
BTW-We were worried about you a while back, didn't see you for a
while and thought maybe you were lost in one of your own shots, and
didn't know which Phil to get out. Good to see you are still with us.
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Yes, I am! Thanks for worrying, though! :-)

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justin23 said:
It is certainly an interesting effect to use the fisheye to make a
panorama.
And I'm sure it is harder to take the shots than it looks.
Then again you aren't known for taking the normal photos now are you :-)
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Thanks, Justin! In fact I do prefer fisheyes like the Zenitar 16mm or the DA10-17mm for pano making over rectilinear lenses; somehow the "precurved" fisheye images match up very nicely and consistently - at least that is my experience ...

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