Wayside Inn Grist Mills (49MP)

The Wayside Grist Mills was built in 1929 at Longfellow Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The eighteen-foot waterwheel drove two grinding mills and a complex set of elevator systems to move the grain and flour.

This shot is the result of a 2-row mosaic pano using the 20D and 17-40L at 40mm, shot portrait. After stitching and cropping the 12 shots yielded a 49 megapixel image, 11,605 x 4,211 pixels.

Scottes wrote:
Then again, it's my first successful multi-row pano, it's 49 megapixels, and it looks pretty darn good. So I'm happy with all that.

Yeah, I'd say so. This is an amazing shot. How long did it take you to put it all together?

How long... Probably almost 10 minutes, probably less, to line up the shots, figure it out, and actually pull the shutter many times. Then I spent HOURS trying to get the image to stitch. Stupid me went left-to-right, then down, then right-to-left. The stitching software was all confused and made a mess. I spent hours trying to fix it (luckily previews only take a few minutes to run) but nothing worked. I called it quits and pretty much gave up on it.

Since I don't like giving up I looked into it again, and realized the l-t-r, r-t-l stuff. I re-ordered the pics in the stitcher program and it came out pretty darn good. After another hour of futzing-for-perfection I finally hit the "Make Big Image" button and went to watch a movie.

That image came out well, so I cropped, fixed the color balance because I had screwed up the white balance somehow, resized and sharpened and output a few versions. Figure another 30 minutes in Photoshop.

Now if I really knew what I was doing had shot this correctly... Probably 5 minutes of shooting, 10 minutes of running the stitching program, wait 1.5 hours, and then 20 minutes in Photoshop.

I need a faster computer with a lot more RAM - it will allow me to realize my mistakes much more quickly.

This is truly amazing. You are reaching new heights with this stuff. I once saw a composite of many thousands of images put together on a super computer. Hope that's not your goal. LOL

BTW, nice image(s).

PTAssembler, which is a front end for Panotools, allows for a few different projection methods. The original above was done Rectilinear, which makes the building look right but distorts the edges. It also requires more cropping since you lose a lot in the middle.

I ran it again overnight using Cylindrical projection. Less cropping, the edges aren't as distorted, but now the middle bulges. I don't like this version at all, really, but it is 72 megapixels at 11,715 x 6032. And that's kinda cool.

very nice scottes, i was thinking of trying a 2 row pano if i find something nice enough to do it on.it does sound like a lot of work though.

Like anything, it gets easier with practice. The first few are a pain, bigtime, but it gets easier quickly. I won't mind spending 30-40 minutes to get a good 100-megapixel image, either.

The first one is better. The distortion you speakof in the first one is not objectionable, but it is in the second one.

Understand, I'm sitting out here three thousand miles away nitpicking your photos. I get the easy job and you not only have to do all the work, but you must also suffer the slings and arrows from people like me who don't have a clue how to take such a fine picture.

Good job, Scott.

Great shot Scott and an amazing job of stitching. That is perfect example of an overshot waterwheel. As far as the sky goes isn't gray the normal color around here in New England now. Again a master piece of stitching.

Kudos for sticking to it. I would have given up. Also thanks for the little history lesson. History was one of my favorite subjects.

You did an awesome job with the first picture.

Art

I really like the colors and the details in the first shot. Very nice work, thanks for all the hard work to make a shot like this. Tony

"simply caused too much distortion at the edges"

I rather like the effect...it brings my eye to the guilding and wheel where the real focus is..

Missed this one...

Your insane!

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I missed this as well.....

That's cool!

Sweet stuff Scott. That is downright awesome.