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Re: Removing panohead in photoshop - fingals cave
Grant Wilson 2006-Jun-21 16:41:00
Thankyou for the advice Alessandro - very helpful.
The google earth geo tags are:
geo:lat5641370584435977
geo:lon6337469708490564
unfortunately this area off the coast of Scotland has not been mapped very well - the
island of mull is clear - but the area where the smaller island of Staffa is, is blurry.
for some background info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingal's_Cave
happy shooting to all re: the gardens theme - it is absolutely pouring down in Scotland for
the forseeable (same weather system as Norway I expect) - so maybe a water garden
would be in order.
grant
--- In #removed#, "Alessandro Ugazio" <ziouga@...> wrote:
>
> --- In #removed#, "currour" <grant@> wrote:
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> > I am sure there is a really easy answer to this
>
> Well, frankly it's not quite a simple task.
> You have to plan your shooting in order to have:
> -two nadir shots (0 and 180) with panohead included
> -at least one handheld nadir shot, having detached camera from head and having
removed
> the tripod from ground (In low light I prefer to bend 90 degrees the camera still
attached
> to the tripod and head, but I have a simplier head than yours...)
>
> In Photoshop I merge the two nadir shots in order to get rid of the vertical bracket. At
this
> point I usually include this TIFF in source images in PTMac and do stitching, with
Enblend
> _flat_ output.
> Then I drop the rendered equirectangular image into CubicConverter, it generates six
> square images, I drag the bottom one into Photoshop and (after defishing my nadir
> headless shot) I try to cover the panohead with that image.
> CS2 has a nice freeform trasform wich helps you to distort a bit the image to fit it
quickly.
> Once done, just drag and drop it again on CubicConverter bottom image and remake
the
> QTVR.
>
> Eric Rougier did a great QuickTime mov with all this and more.
> <http://fromparis.com/video/make_a_quicktime_vr_in_10_mnts_english.mov>
>
> I personally prefer to shoot also the two nadir-with-panohead shots because the gap to
> cover will be smaller, and my handheld shots are almost always moving!
>
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated - the pano in question is at Fingals cave in
Staffa
>
> Very interesting cave! Can you post a GoogleEarth bookmark, please?
>
> Hi
> Alessandro Ugazio
>