A Tucker - the challenge has been laid down

[lefturn99]

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/fun/hdtr/

We all know about CS2's "Merge to HDR. A Tucker seems to be the undisputed master of Pano/HDR. But here is HDR gone wild. As complicated as it is, it would be even more complicated to include it as a pano. But it should present no problem for your skill.

Disclaimer. I have posted this in another forum. Wouldn't normally do that but I think this is too cool.

[dbump]

Thanks for posting it! I've been wanting to do this with seasonal changes, rather than daylight changes, for a long time--this is good info and incentive to get cracking.

[lefturn99]

That's really interesting. I hadn't thought of that. I've seen the 4 seasons with separate pictures in magazines before and was really impressed.

Let's see. How to "register" the camera and scene so that we can come back several months later and take the same shot. We need to find a positive, finite location for the tripod. Up against a fence (preferrably at a corner or gate) or post or something. Extend legs fully, don't extend the top (for consistency). Level the camera. Align a place in the picture with a spot in the viewfinder. Write it down. And don't sell the tripod or camera for a year. :)

Now, if you are going to also pano the seasons, for the shots after the first one, you would register it like the first one, then turn the camera a certain number of degrees from the registered angle.

I'm just trying to figure the steps. Have I missed any? It seems like for the seasons pano, unlike the one day pano, each shot could be exposed by itself, maybe with a set aperture.

Looks like we're going to get some snow this weekend. Around here, that's the key shot because we just don't get that much snow. We'll see.

[cyclone]

That is pretty cool stuff. I'm not sure you would technically need HDR to pull this off - maybe just cut the bits of each picture you want for that timeframe and merge?

This sort of picture would be interesting to try for sure.

[dbump]

It would also be interesting to create two composites, one with time progressing left-right, and one top-bottom, layer them, and then blend to get a diagonal time progression. Lots of variations come to mind.
For that matter, if you're auto-stitching them programatically, it'd just be a matter of changing the code to do blends on planes other than 90 and 180. Perhaps concentric?

[ATucker]

http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/fun/hdtr/ .....
A Tucker seems to be the undisputed master of Pano/HDR. .....

I would agree as long as you narrow the field down by adding: ..... of those POTN forum users that shoot with a G5, live in Cleveland, and have a dog named Bear.

It is an interesting concept but I do not think I could sit on my kiester for ~10 hours taking a shot every 5 minutes ... even if the beer was good.