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Shiv Kumar Surya
{K:17362} 12/13/2009
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Wonderful panormic view. Excellent composition and colour contrast.
Congrats.
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Dave Arnold
{K:55680} 4/16/2006
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This is an excellent city shot, a perfect example of the benefit of panoramic shooting.
Best wishes,
Dave
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 2/28/2006
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Thanks alberto -
A lot of people have really liked this shot, and I followed it up with a nice winter scene that makes for a nice pair. This was a definitive moment as it was a lucky shot that made me want to try to post really great work on usefilm. Thanks.
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Joe Ciccone
{K:3684} 2/28/2006
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great job..beautiful city view...well done...cheers
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alberto baez duarte
{K:8175} 2/28/2006
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Excellent view...colors and lights are incredible and the effect of the clouds and shadow....congrats...
alberto.
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Omar Amroussy
{K:4502} 2/11/2006
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amazing in every aspect 7++
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Zara Hajaig
{K:1143} 2/4/2006
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great work!
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kike Calvo
{K:11291} 2/2/2006
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Un paisaje urbano magistral. Un trabajo fantástico y un tratamiento de luces espectacular.
Merecidísimo premio.
Un saludo
kike
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/26/2006
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Roger:
This one's for you.
http://www.usefilm.com/image/1037216.html
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/25/2006
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Roger:
It will be difficult to crush a large pano into that small a space, but I think I have the perfect stitch... The entire Grand Teton range. 12 landscape shots and wide, wide, wide. Thanks.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 1/25/2006
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Change 360k to 400k, and yes, you're right. I was viewing one yesterday that was 2,400 pixels wide and (if I remember right) about 600 deep.
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Yahya El Hosafy
{K:8369} 1/25/2006
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very nice try, amazingly beautifull just as the previous ones.
well done and congrats for the prize.
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Ina Nicolae
{K:44481} 1/25/2006
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Excellent panoramic and superb sky! Great clarity and color balance, and I love the semi-transparent flag - it couldn't get any better than this. Congratulations for the SC award, well deserved! Ina
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/25/2006
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Moe:
Repost of an earlier comment. This shot was merged using the Canon software but I use Autostitch now.
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Google on "Autostitch", it is a free program and is small. It just needs some RAM to go and runs on a PC. You open the preferences, set to 100% scale, 100 JPEG quality, and then open the files. It uses pattern recognition to match the shots, stretch, and blend. I've tried some other programs as well.
Arcsoft Panorama Maker is the next best in my experience. You are constrained by choosing one shot side to side, vertical, or matrix (4x4). You have to manually adjust the matching points. Does a great job.
Canon's Photostitch is neat - you enter in the mm of the lens (for digital users you have to convert to 35mm equivalent) and it merges and blends. Moderate results because if you do not line up the image plane you are in trouble.
Adobe Elements has Photomerge. Close to the Canon technology, but I just can't get this sucker to work for me. Probably user error.
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To take a great stitch:
- Shoot digital. It's about matching pixels, and digital will get you the most consistent results (sharpness, tones, etc.)
- Use a tripod if you can. You want to match up on the nodal point (where the light flip flops internally in the lens) to get a perfect perspective match as you rotate. However, I find it easier just to use a normal tripod head and move across the image plane (your sensor in your camera or film) along the same fulcrum. This means if you have a mounting point in line with that senor or film the tripod will force you to swivel right down the middle if you shoot in landscape mode. The "flatter" your photo from perspective the less this will matter.
- Remember that wider is not better. No tripod? It's OK. Perspective is a problem with shooting stitches, the more shifting of near ground elements due to a wide angle means you will have to overlap more. The "flatter" your images, the more two dimensional they are, the less "stretching" the software will have to do, or you will have to do using something like PT lens later on, to flatten the image for merging. When I shoot, I at most go to 28 mm at the widest, and in those cases I will do at least 50% overlap. At 70 mm and beyond, 1/4 overlap is the way to go.
- Use a grid system. My viewfinder projects a grid with lines on the quarter and one half as vertical lines and horizontal lines. I look at the cross-hatches where the lines intersect. For example, if I see that there is a tree at the intersection in the middle of my viewfinder, I remember that tree and then put it at the 1/4 intersection when I move the camera over. This makes sure that the perspective is forced to consistency as you turn the camera and everything will join smoothly. If you do not have grid lines you can use your autofoucs "dots" or eyeball it.
- Force everything manual. I look like an idiot by moving my camera around the whole scene, metering F-Stop and Exposure across the scene, and then choose the average and force the same: F-Stop, Exposure, White Balance, sharpening, etc across all the photos. This also means you have a lot less latitude to getting a really nice shot - in bright days the deep shadows and bright sky vary across the landscape. Sorry. Like most photos, the first and last hours of daylight are best. I do allow the autofocus to work, but with landscapes remember to use hyperfocal distance. Google "hyperfocal" if that just whizzed on by you. It just means using F-stop with where you focus to make sure everything winds up in focus. High depth of field (DOF).
- Lose the filters. Grad filters and polarizers will change the image as you move. IR, UV, ND, and other filters that are consistent are OK.
- Lastly, when you shoot leave room for cropping. Stitching programs love to stretch images, and you may find little blank spaces and gaps. The only way is to give a little buffer to your subjects and crop down later on. This is counter to the normal mode of cropping to the image you want in camera.
Have fun. You never know what will pop out until you are done stitching. I've noticed stitches of 20 images and discover that one of them was out of focus messing up the whole thing. Others that I thought would be boring wind up being absolutely great.
Another benefit is that if the image does not look a panorama, the end result is that you can get 18 - 24 megapixel images from a 6 megapixel camera. This means that you can get away with a wonderful 20" x 30" 150 dpi print for your wall.
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Hakan AKIRMAK
{K:15913} 1/25/2006
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Great shot! Congratulations Michael!
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Moe Rabie
{K:4390} 1/25/2006
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wonderful view, could you tell me what panoramic software do you use??
my regards
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/25/2006
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Roger:
Let me confirm this. If I could compress a 3000 x 500 panoramic (narrow and large) down to 360K I could post it and the whole thing would appear in the Panoramic viewer?
(gasp!)
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Joel Calheiros
{K:229} 1/25/2006
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wonderful image
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Jeanette Hägglund
{K:59855} 1/25/2006
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What a beautiful view, with the clouds looking so dramatic, magic light and good way of showing the city - the city view. The best i guess with this light. Well deserving sc award too! Congrats!
:)
Jeanette
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Joggie van Staden
{K:41700} 1/25/2006
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Excellent image with marvelous light and composition. COngrats on the SC! Great work.
Joggie
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Gayle's Eclectic Photos
{K:91109} 1/25/2006
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hi, congrats for SC award!...a pleasure to view both pano and as is here...you did a fantastic post edit job with the contrast level...the light is wonderful and i like the detail everywhere
regards,gayle 7+
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 1/25/2006
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I was hoping you would get around to reposting this memorable shot in full panorama mode. It's a little known fact that apart from the aspect ratio limit (at least 2:1), panorama images can be any number of pixels you can compress to under the 400k filesize limit. So you could make these even bigger... The effective limit is now the size at which you begin to see JPEG compression artifacts!
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Lori Stitt
{K:75282} 1/25/2006
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I knew I'd seen this one before.
I like this scene very much,
this image has great colors, awesome sky
and a beautiful time of day.
Good job,
Lori :)
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Ann Nida
{K:45248} 1/25/2006
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Congratulations for the award Michael. This is razor sharp. Amazing clarity and the details are superb. The glow from the sun is spectacular. Beautifully topped with a great sky. A brilliant image in every sense of the word.
Cheers - Ann :)
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Bart Aldrich
{K:123} 1/20/2006
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Congrats! This is beautiful.
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brian underdown
{K:-960} 1/20/2006
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remarkable colour and focus quality what a view you have allowed us to see.
brian
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p e t a .
{K:18700} 1/18/2006
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Beautiful Michael - wow. Congrats on SC, so so well deserved! I think I see Toto in those clouds, hehehee!
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Tom Gessner
{K:2030} 1/18/2006
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this is an absolutely perfect shot - I like it very much - very well done this composition
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Jason Mckeown
{K:22200} 1/18/2006
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fantastic shot, the colours are great congrats on the award and cant wait to see the winter shot
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Roberto Arcari Farinetti
{K:209486} 1/18/2006
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wooow Michael..
the panorama city is wonderful also the lucky for the sky very dramatic! is very good the details and the particular light!
congrats for the Staff Choice very well deserved it!
all my best wishes..
roby
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Eric Hazard
{K:590} 1/18/2006
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I had to click on this one. Very well done.
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 1/18/2006
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Just kidding, Michael. I know they belong together, and I AM looking forward to the winter scene...:)
Cheers,
Hugo
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Piero Somma
{K:13399} 1/18/2006
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without words!.....
great michael
ciao
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/18/2006
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Hugo:
I am always honored by any award given to my work. It means a lot. But these two are a pair, and this one seems so lonely in my portfolio without the winter scene as balance...
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Cristina D
{K:8080} 1/18/2006
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Beautiful panorama, u used the light the best way possible.
Excellent capture!
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 1/18/2006
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don't push it... heheheheheh.. Isn't one SC per day not enough?
Cheers,
Hugo
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Michael Kanemoto
{K:22115} 1/18/2006
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Hugo:
Winter scene will be posted when the clock allows.
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 1/18/2006
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wonderful image ,very great depth of field and with great composition and details , all of the best my friend .
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Ninni Termine
{K:8990} 1/18/2006
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Perfect this panorama, the light is very warm and the result superb.
Congrats.
ciao
Ninni
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1301307 60
{K:44058} 1/18/2006
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beautiful view, the low warm lighting against the dark clouds. nice photo. congrats!
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185110} 1/18/2006
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Ha! Now here's one I've been expecting...:) So nice to see it at a larger scale again...:)
Cheers,
Hugo
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