Thanks for the kind words!
Mounted vertically should be great. I need to make a more complex pano head.. I've learned so many different techniques and optimizations by doing it the hard way though.. I just just a piece of 3 inche aluminum to offset the camera on the nodal point using the phoenix fisheye. Then when Im done with the 360, I remove the tripod and shoot handheld..
while keeping the camera on the nodal point using the virtual tripod method to shoot the ground and sky. This eliminates everything I dont want in my panorama. Then I make sure my photos are ok for panotools..
Takes about 3 hours for 19 images.
Load em in. a few points for each point. output to photoshop.
Do some light masking during a few beers.. make a flattened tiff.
Do a once over.. go back to masking what I forgot.. rince lather repeat.
Flop the panorama to the bottom. Lil clone maybe.. the least I can get away with if I have shot properly. Flop it back. Make the qtvr. add the rotation and done. I have about 4 panoramas of interesting things that I'm proud off. I have some other technically good ones of my apartment to learn my techniques. I don't make a panorama again till I have learned 1 thing to do better. 19 images is seriously hard to do right.
I have alot of disdain the the 180 fisheye people that do tons of panoramas and have artifacts all over the place. 3 or 4 shots and maybe 30 minutes of work to not make a perfect panorama.
I'll be getting a 180 fisheye after I get some business. Then I can do shots with tons of people racing around.
The d7 nices.. I like the colors and sky much better than the CP.
The CP panoramas have quite a characteristic.
Sacha, your panorama is great! I've always been intrigued by the
wonderful quality of 'being there' imparted by an interactive
on-screen pano. In fact, I've shot quite a few with a Nikon Coolpix
990 mounted vertically on a pano tripod head. But, owning a D7
(which I've never used for panos), I was curious just how you set
up your 360 degree view and what stitching software you used.
Everything turned out perfectly in your shot with not a hint of
merging artifacts!
--
Steve B.
