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Nabil-A

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 06:31

infeeneetee

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 07:32

what technique did u use to blend the photo? give me some tips please, im still searching on how doing that very sharp n clear.. the panorama very nice!!.. u should get it into a frame..

Mr. Messenger

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 07:46

WOW!
The clouds really help to set the mood, well done!

Jeff

rgravel

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 07:47

Great Pic.

I like the fact that the sky and clouds are still visible, and all those colors.

Reducing the over exposure on the bottom left corner would make it even better.

Congrats on the great pic.

infeeneetee

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 07:49

http://surauonline.com/projet.jpg

look at my pic.. something wrong with that.. im haven't found how to get it clearer... can u give me a simple lesson?..

sdommin

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 10:28

Very nice Nabil. I believe that you can use just PS CS to assemble your panoramas. Something under the "merge" command, I think.

BottomBracket

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 12:03

Incredible pic. What focal length did you use? In PSE 3.0 there is a Photomerge command that I use, I would imagine that there would be something better in CS.

ray mackie

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 14:40

I use the photostitch software which came bundled with my G5...seems to work better then the panorama option in PSE. Some images "confuse" the software, but it has a manual option. I love panoramas, and I like the ones show in this thread. Of course tripod with pan head always helps, but I often shoot without and get good results.

Ray

Flagpole

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 15:53

G'day Nabil!

Great pano. Honestly much better than some of my attempts. Did you use a pano head on the tripod? I've been considering buying Panosorus (http://gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm) for a while to improve the pano I may shoot. What was the final size of the pano? Btw if you are in Sydney and planning to print this out consider the guys at PixelPerfect (http://www.pixelperfect.com.au/index2.htm). I haven't used them myself (though they are down the road from I am in Surry Hills) but the Lambda printers they use are supposebly great. And they can print up to 50".

I was in Melbourne last year on Anzac Day as a start of a trip to Great Ocean Road. I was planning to get some night shots but didn't get around to it. Very nice. How did you find PTAssembler. I used it on this panorama and got great results which were superior to Autostich or Canon. But it requires much manual processing in PS especially in terms of seams.

http://members.oztralia.com/~bfeldman/Testshots/12apostles.jpg

My biggest gripe was that I shot this pano with polarizer on which significantly affected the colours. Matching them in PS using Match Color didn't quite worked so I did it manually. However I still have a colour mismatch which can be fixed with multiple screen layers and gradient mask. I just need to sit down and nail it one day. Then think about getting it printed and framed :)

Good shootings,
Regards
Flagpole

Darkhorse

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 16:00

Fantastic. I was in that area in 2003 and got a similar shot of Melbourne http://www.formerairline.com/travel/australia/images/21.jpg

To bad I only had the 16mb card at the time, so I couldn't do any panoramics.

Flagpole, awesome shot of the 12 apostles, those are hard to capture, especially during the day I went. I got a fairly good shot of Philip Island though:

http://www.formerairline.com/travel/australia/images/26.jpg

I have quite a few panoramics, these are mainly of Germany though:
http://www.formerairline.com/travel/europe/stuttgart.html
http://www.formerairline.com/travel/europe/heidelberg.html
http://www.formerairline.com/travel/europe/rheinvalley.html (36 exposures)

Raj

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 20:05

Great Nabil !
Would you mind sharing technique with us ?
Thanks

infeeneetee

26th of February 2005 (Sat), 23:57

yup, would u?

Nabil-A

27th of February 2005 (Sun), 00:21

Hey, thanks for the great responses and feedback.

Flagpole, put simply, great pic !, your panaroma is both vivid and beautiful. I visited the 12 apostles about a year ago and had the opportunity of sleeping over in port campbell. Waited till late evening to catch the sunset and was up early morning to drive back out to the viewpoint to catch sunrise. Your photo brought back so many memories.

Darkhorse, even though ive lived in melbourne for the last year (originally brought up in Sydney), i havent had the opportunity to do the Phillip Island thing. Though from the look of your photo, CANT WAIT.

I just got back from CAMERAHOUSE who are my local photosupplies outlet (southland shopping centre) they have great service and excellent advice and printing services.

Take a look at the the final print. It measures 1.5m widthby 50cm height. I think i have my workflow pretty much down pat, as the final quality blew me away. My wife wants me to do more so we can fill up some blank walls. (hahaha)

As soon as i have a bit more time ill put together what i did to achieve my results (both shooting and post editing steps). I have to admit it is very much based on SCOTTIES advice and tutorials in combination with some tid bits ive picked up from tabawares panarama website). But ill try to put it all together into a tut of some sort with some screen captures to assist. Be happy to be able to put something back into these forums for all the advice and assistance ive received from others.

Ballen Photo

27th of February 2005 (Sun), 00:31

Used PTassembler and PS CS.
Panoramic shot consists of 4 photos.

Would welcome any feedback. Planning on getting this blown up and framed. Photo was taken of the Yarra River - Melbourne City Australia.

I thought I had already commented here, but I see I didn't. (Must be loosing it.)
This is a BEAUTIFUL pano, and I'm sure it will look GREAT in print! :D
-Bruce

infeeneetee

27th of February 2005 (Sun), 01:12

As soon as i have a bit more time ill put together what i did to achieve my results (both shooting and post editing steps). I have to admit it is very much based on SCOTTIES advice and tutorials in combination with some tid bits ive picked up from tabawares panarama website). But ill try to put it all together into a tut of some sort with some screen captures to assist. Be happy to be able to put something back into these forums for all the advice and assistance ive received from others.

thanks nabil,

great printed huh!! good job nabil!! keep it up..

bosamar

27th of February 2005 (Sun), 09:41

I like it. I like it alot!

mobilestudio1

3rd of March 2005 (Thu), 01:22

I'm a little late posting, but I just came across this thread and had to say -
STUNNING job. Wonderful color and detail...absolutely gorgeous!

Great job Nabil.

Claire

3rd of March 2005 (Thu), 06:47

Just saw this thread. Great image! It must look so good in a frame and on your wall. I really need to learn to stitch pano's together ok.

vdolmstead

5th of March 2005 (Sat), 13:45

My gosh, you pano posters in this thread sure set a high standard! Some very beautiful work is displayed here.

Nidz

24th of August 2005 (Wed), 19:55

Awesome.. Is there a place online that you can buy this type of pano photo paper from? I remember seeing it at Teds camera shop years ago but then dissapeared. It was kind of like 2 A4 sheets side by side in size. Anyone know a good cheap place to get it in AU?

Well done on the picture! I want to take a similar pic when ym 350D arrives with the Casino flames going on.. :)

Nabil-A

24th of August 2005 (Wed), 20:47