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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
As you all know I have enjoyed playing with HDR but I love pano's.
Tonight I was grabbing some shots for HDR and decided to get a pano. I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...tream&s ize=l Thank you all for your comments on my posts over the last few weeks. Only new (just on a year) to photography and loving the learning of it all. |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:47:47 +1100, Father McKenzie wrote:
As you all know I have enjoyed playing with HDR but I love pano's. Tonight I was grabbing some shots for HDR and decided to get a pano. I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l Very nice. I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne? id=2216538672&context=photostream&size=l Thank you all for your comments on my posts over the last few weeks. Only new (just on a year) to photography and loving the learning of it all. |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
On Jan 24, 9:47 pm, Father McKenzie
wrote: As you all know I have enjoyed playing with HDR but I love pano's. Tonight I was grabbing some shots for HDR and decided to get a pano. I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...ext=photostrea... Thank you all for your comments on my posts over the last few weeks. Only new (just on a year) to photography and loving the learning of it all. Great images! You ability to use HDR to get excellently exposed sunsets is a lesson to us all - maybe a few more details of your methodology (esp. how many shots, how you decide on your exposure choices) might be in order..? (O; Two tiny nitpicks - I think a bit of straightening of the boat masts would help (PTGUI should be able to help do this, or alternatively make sure you shoot with camera level, not pointing up*.. -maybe use a wider angle if you need lots of sky), and in the second one I'm just not quite sure about your decision to put that guy smack bang in the highlight - he just looks a little odd... (O; * I suspect you know this, but someone reading this might not... So apologies if it sounds like I'm lecturing! (O; |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
* Father McKenzie is quoted & my replies are inline below :
wrote: On Jan 24, 9:47 pm, Father McKenzie wrote: As you all know I have enjoyed playing with HDR but I love pano's. Tonight I was grabbing some shots for HDR and decided to get a pano. I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...ext=photostrea... Thank you all for your comments on my posts over the last few weeks. Only new (just on a year) to photography and loving the learning of it all. Great images! You ability to use HDR to get excellently exposed sunsets is a lesson to us all - maybe a few more details of your methodology (esp. how many shots, how you decide on your exposure choices) might be in order..? (O; Thanks Mark, A lot of people don't like HDR but I am really enjoying it. At first I was like everyone else and made spooky looking HDR but recently I have been playing around to make it look 'natural' or as natural as can be. snip / I think what people don't like is the really over the top tonemapping. Yours are quite natural and not over the top. -- Troy Piggins Please feel free to provide constructive criticism on any photos I post. I'm always learning and appreciate feedback. |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
Troy Piggins wrote:
* Father McKenzie is quoted & my replies are inline below : wrote: On Jan 24, 9:47 pm, Father McKenzie wrote: As you all know I have enjoyed playing with HDR but I love pano's. Tonight I was grabbing some shots for HDR and decided to get a pano. I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...ext=photostrea... Thank you all for your comments on my posts over the last few weeks. Only new (just on a year) to photography and loving the learning of it all. Great images! You ability to use HDR to get excellently exposed sunsets is a lesson to us all - maybe a few more details of your methodology (esp. how many shots, how you decide on your exposure choices) might be in order..? (O; Thanks Mark, A lot of people don't like HDR but I am really enjoying it. At first I was like everyone else and made spooky looking HDR but recently I have been playing around to make it look 'natural' or as natural as can be. snip / I think what people don't like is the really over the top tonemapping. Yours are quite natural and not over the top. Except for this 'beauty' on my first go. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...1371512&size=l I did think the halo's around the boat looked cool. |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
"Troy Piggins" wrote in message
... I think what people don't like is the really over the top tonemapping. Yours are quite natural and not over the top. It's like a lot of other things. I used to do solarizations and posterizations, in the darkroom, just because I could. Over 90% of these wound up in my POC. (you can guess what that stands for.) When I first went digital PS made these things quite easy so the Gee Whiz effect no longer existed. Similarly, HDR when used judiciously can be a valuable tool. Few will argue that PS shouldn't be used, because it is too easy to abuse. I don't think we should criticize HDR just because some carry its potential to extreme, any more than we should denigrate saturation or sharpening, because those tools are abused. Just my 2 cents. -- Peter |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
"Peter" wrote in message ... "Troy Piggins" wrote in message ... I think what people don't like is the really over the top tonemapping. Yours are quite natural and not over the top. It's like a lot of other things. I used to do solarizations and posterizations, in the darkroom, just because I could. Over 90% of these wound up in my POC. (you can guess what that stands for.) Hmmm... I'm guessing the fourth one... POC Paid Outside of Closing (real estate) POC Particulate Organic Carbon POC Piece Of Cake POC Pile Of Crap POC Point Of Contact POC Port Of Call POC Metal Powder Cutting (welding) POC Paid on Call (firefighting) POC Pakistan Origin Card POC Parents of Ostomy Children POC Passion of the Christ (movie) POC Paxson Oil Company POC Payload Operations Center POC Peace Observation Commission (UN) POC Pen of Chaos (French website) POC People of Color POC Percent of Original Charge POC Percentage-Of-Completion POC Performance Objectives and Criteria POC Person of Color POC Person On Call POC Person on Cocaine POC Personnel Operations Center POC Philippine Olympic Committee POC Physical Optics Corporation POC Piece of Crap POC Pirates of the Caribbean (movie) POC ****ed Off Chick POC ****ed Off Customer POC Plan of Care POC Plan of Correction POC Plano Oficial de Contabilidade (Portuguese: Accountancy Official Plan) POC Platoon Operations Center POC Point of Call POC Point of Care POC Point of Care (healthcare industry) POC Point of Compliance POC Point of Concept POC Point on Curve (surveying) POC Polar Cod (FAO species name code ) POC Policy Oversight Committee POC Porsche Owners Club POC Port of Convenience POC Portable Object Compiler POC Ports of Call (computer game) POC Position of Comfort POC Posterior Circulation Syndrome (medical) POC Potential Officers Course (UK) POC Power Converter POC Power of Connecting POC Preliminary Operational Capability POC Preliminary Operational Concept POC Privately Owned Conveyance POC Proceeds of Crime (Canadian legal term) POC Processor Outage Control (CCS #7 & ITU-T) POC Procurement Order Cycle POC Product of Combustion POC Product of Conception (genetics testing) POC Production Office Coordinator (film and television industry) POC Professional Officer Candidate POC Professional Officer Course POC Project Officer Coordinator (FEMA) POC Project Overview Committee POC Proof of Claim (insurance industry) POC Proof of Closure (switch for a valve or acuator) POC Proof Of Concept POC Property of Canada POC Proyectos de Obra Civil (Spanish) POC Psychological Operations Company POC Pu`u `O`o Cone (Hawai'i) POC Public Operators Code POC Pulmonary Opacity Code POC Pulse Of Capitalism POC Pump Off Control POC Purchase Order Change (EDI) PoC Push to Talk Over Cellular (cellular telephony) |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
That Rich wrote:
I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l Perhaps I'm wrong but it seems one could get essentially the same image using a 20mm lens. Maybe, but I don't own a 20mm lens but I own PTGui I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...ext=photostrea... Again, seems the same can be accomplished either with patience or a grad ND. Another 2 things I don't have Digital has made a lot of *photographers* computer *experts*. You must also hate modern movies. We don't move forward with technology to live in the dark ages. One of my HDR photos made the final 5 in a National (Australian) amateur photo comp so someone out there must like it. And I will be honest the image they selected I wasn't that fussed on. It has a nasty halo in the centre of it. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...7167421&size=l Nice photos. Thanks Cheers, RP© |
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Playing with PTGui (Lake Panorama)
On Jan 25, 9:45 am, That Rich wrote:
I took 4 shots and stitched them with PTGui. http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...6562812&size=l Perhaps I'm wrong but it seems one could get essentially the same image using a 20mm lens. Well perhaps he doesn't *have* a 20mm lens... At some point, every photographer is gunna run out of lens width, and then what technique should they use...? (And stitching is often done simply to increase pixel count, and therefore enlargability.) I also got this HDR from the same location http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne...ext=photostrea... Again, seems the same can be accomplished either with patience or a grad ND. Patience? How does that get the same effect? (O; Does a typical gND give you a six stop range? That's what Fr M was using. HDR has: - essentially no limit to the dynamic range (other than that of the camera, your patience and how fast the scene may change..) - no limitation on where/how the effect is applied With gNDs you are stuck with whatever f-stop range the gND(s) have. With gND's you cannot selectively apply the effect to individual areas With gND's you are (pretty much) stuck with the available gradient width and position I've seen some awful gND shots, where the gradient was so obvious it hurt. I concede there are far more bad examples of HDR around (even done some myself, but I don't display them!), but that comes with any new technology. There are now far more bad pictures around, too, because they are so easy to take and display. But that doesn't mean that new techniques are not valuable. Digital has made a lot of *photographers* computer *experts*. The glass is half empty? (O: |
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