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Re: My first cilindrical panoramas
Rolf Ris 2007-Mar-15 17:15:00
To me your panos look very nice.
(in fullscreen on my Powerbook 17")
I am interested in the used parameters on the camera.
Could you give us the EXIF-Data of the pictures?
Thank you very much
Rolf
Am 15.03.2007 um 16:28 schrieb Jaume Llorens:
> Thanks for the comments, advices and links, Alessandro. They are very
> useful to me.
> I use the Photomatix only to do some tonemapping. So I'll merge before
> stitch.
> Really a great idea, the way you have to solve "come nascondo il
> treppiede?", and very clear the workflow :-)
> The panos that you show at ziouga.it are really impressive. I have
> enjoyed the visit!
> Thank you.
>
> Jaume
>
> En/na Alessandro Ugazio ha escrit:
> >
> > > They are the first cilyndrical panoramas I make.
> >
> > Cubic, not cilyndrical.
> > They're really beautiful, I like them!
> > My first cubic panos weren't so nice, particularily those taken at
> > night...
> >
> > > - Final equirectangular image sizes 4000 x 2000px. Is it enougt to
> > > fullscreen panorama? Which is the better size.. ?
> >
> > I usually adopt these sizes:
> > <http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/Sizes.html
> > <http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/Sizes.html>>
> >
> > > - I think imatges are not so sharp. I'd like to obtain a better
> > > sharpness.. Which are the usual mistakes that decrease
> sharpness.. or
> > > do you know how to improve it?
> >
> > Render at more than 6000x3000, but you'll need some RAM...
> >
> > > - In large expositions, when hand held is not possible, is
> there any
> > > way to shot the bottom photo?
> >
> > I usually do like this:
> > <http://www.ziouga.it/Come/Come.html
> > <http://www.ziouga.it/Come/Come.html>>
> > (Click on the first two images)
> > This way I can also shoot tripod bracketed nadir shots.
> > Some Photoshop skill required to do "invisible" merging :)
> >
> > > - If soft like Photomatix is used, is better to blend separated
> images
> > > before stitch, or first stitch and then blend the different
> exposured
> > > panoramas?
> >
> > I tried both (in Photoshop), and now I prefer merging bracketed
> shots
> > before stitching
> > them, because it's easier to shift images if the camera slightly
> moved
> > between shots (wind
> > or else).
> >
> > Anyway, if you just need to do some tonemapping (for example,
> > replacing burned lights
> > with the dark shots, or taking shadow areas from the light ones),
> I'd
> > do like above.
> >
> > If you want to generate .HDR files instead, you'll need to drop full
> > renders (of differently
> > exposed shots) into Photomatix (well, I actually never used it, so I
> > may be wrong).
> >
> > > Thank you very much (and sorry by English mistakes)
> > >
> > > Jaume Llorens
> >
> > Sorry for my english as well, I'm Italian...
> >
> > Alessandro
> >
>
>
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