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Re: Submission candidate posted for critique ... comments please
Mickael Therer 2005-Jun-30 20:51:00
Victor,
w-o-w (whack-on-wrist?) this is truly impressive,
I thought I had done a decent job on my 24shots
mono-row but hell how many hands do you have ?
aside from the performance it is mostly
veryvery nice to look at too !
-mickael
http://www.360days.com
http://ww2panorama.org
--- In #removed#, "Victor" <#removed#> wrote:
> Erik,
>
> Thank you very much. High praise from you as I have admired your
> panos and benefited from you knowledge (and your various
> tutorials/actions) posted here, on the ptools list and on your site.
>
> > It is brilliant! Unbelievable you stitched it from 40 images. I
> > searched for all kinds of color mismatches or stitching errors - I
> > found none... ... well, one: The footprints of the woman walking
> > towards the man with the video camera are missing in a small part ;-)
>
> Believe it ... I've got a sore wrist from working in Photoshop to
> prove it. ;-) As to errors, mismatches, etc., I guess all that work
> was effective and worth it. I shot nearly 100 images overall, making
> several laps around the circle for the main (middle) view ... (camera
> pitched slightly up and down for each) in order to be reasonably sure
> of getting complete people and their reflections.
>
> I had to LOL! at your hunt for items and coming up with only the
> footprints. Of course, I know where all the skeletons are buried, but
> it is a testament to my thinking that I could get away with one VERY
> BIG fudge and it looks like I was right.
>
> Look at the woman walking away from me with the colorful bag (visible
> on the opening viewpoint). Her reflection is mostly a photoshop cut,
> paste & tweak job. The original set of stitched images was missing
> the bottom half of her reflection ... it just wasn't part of the
> captured images. I could've substituted an image that was cleaner,
> but the only "good" complete images didn't have any people at all and
> I REALLY liked the splash of color her bag provided. However, the
> bizarre reflections was a gross error and attracted the eye in a big
> way. So what to do? Lots of PS work! The bottom of her reflection
> is largely a cut and paste from some other person in the stitched
> shot, mirrored and shifted, plus some out and out faking to create
> missing portions out of whole cloth.
>
> Here are snippets of the original and the final version.
>
> http://www.zaveduk.com/wwp/reflections.htm
>
> Once you know to look, it's obvious that the reflection is wrong. The
> color is backwards (light dress, dark top), etc.. It's amazing how
> easily the eye (and mind) is fooled. :-)
>
> I won't reveal the other major cut and pastes (there are two other
> sizeable instances, that's the only hint I'll give!) ... it's always
> important to maintain some sense of mystery. ;-)
>
> I'll take your advice on the quality param in panocube plus to improve
> the look during movement. Hopefully, most machines will be able to
> handle it reasonably well. It definitely reduces that annoying moire.
>
> Victor