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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16594} 11/30/2006
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Dera Roger, I made a mental note to visit this place next May, when roses are in bloom.Love the fountains!
Friendly regards,
Gabriela
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 11/20/2006
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marvelous angle.stunning tones. marvelous tones. magnificent. 7++
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/20/2006
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Thanks, Gib. It's more likely to be my monitor than yours. One and the same monitor renders my photos quite differently. In the PSP main program I get brighter images with lower gamma, and in the plugins I use to fine tune theh images I get darker, more contrasty images.
The resulting confusion is driving me nuts. I think I probably liked the unretouched PSP image enough to let it go to Usefilm.com, whereas as I should have looked at it in my plugins...
I have set gamma and colour mapping twice, once using PSP and once (much later, when trying the trial version of PS CS2) using the Adobe utility. It seems that the PSP setting only works within PSP but the Adobe setting over-rules outside it. Argh! The plug-ins were designed to work with Adobe PS but are compatible with PSP. However, it looks as if they are utilizing the Adobe settings for my monitor.
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Bill Gibson
{K:2701} 11/19/2006
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it is probably my monitor setting but this looks to me that it might benefit a little from some "fill flash" added using an image editing software program like Paint Shop Pro 9.
Looks like a wonderful place to visit and revisit
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/17/2006
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Thanks, Tim. Yes, I decided that I couldn't afford the VERY nice Nikon 12-24mm, and could use the extra mm of the Tamron 11-18mm at the wide end while relying on the set zoom (18-70mm) for 18 and above. But the Tamron stays on most of the time... I have to remember to shoot RAW to get rid of the CA, though. I should have said that PTgui has greatly improved recently. Don't hesitate to upgrade. It is now available for the MAC, where it is proving very popular.
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/17/2006
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Thank you... Yes, Mike, it was the difficulty of finding good really wide-angle lenses that kept me from getting into DSLRs for years. The Tamron is a reasonably priced option that does quite well enough! And I have my Nikon fisheye for even more extreme views... [grin]
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Tim Schumm
{K:29196} 11/17/2006
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Super Pano!....I see you got the Tamron working for you to good effect. I met another panorama enthusiast in Banff Alberta a month ago and he was extolling the PTgui software and said it worked seamlessly for him. I then discovered that i had a older version and that was why it wasn't working as well as could be expected...hmmm....time for a upgrade. Thanks for suggesting it to me a while ago and inspiring the Pano vision for me.
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jessie voigts
{K:6772} 11/17/2006
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wow, roger - so many people around the perimeter. excellent photo!!
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Mike Adams
{K:7180} 11/16/2006
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This is excellent.
Seeing a shot like this make me want to move the DSLR to be able to put on a lense with a large FOV like this and acheive some of these shots with a single picture.
Great job !
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/15/2006
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Dear Cessy,
I explained about the yin and yang in a message you obviously haven't received. So sorry... the fact is that when I went back to the department store to get the wind chimes the little ethnic boutique no longer existed. It was a seasonal promotion that had ended, and may never be repeated! Even if it is, there is no guarantee that those particular products will be available. If there is anything of mine you would like a print of I can do that for you... Perhaps a nice BIG panorama? I have your beautiful print on my desk, where I see it every day!
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cessy karina
{K:14205} 11/14/2006
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Hallo Roger
how are you
very nice capture of the place, beautiful fountain
btw is yin and yang lost somewhere ? :)
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Mohamed Tarief
{K:1141} 11/14/2006
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Great Angle and Composition
Wonderful Shot
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Rashed Abdulla
{K:163889} 11/14/2006
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Wonderful Landscape here and of very great composition and so pleasant to view
Wishing you all of the best my friend
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Roger Williams
{K:86139} 11/14/2006
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Inside rooms, the problem is more likely to be slight deviation of the lens from the correct entrance pupil (or "nodal point") position. Distortion doesn't really affect things, certainly not the distortion of a standard zoom. I have used the Zenitar successfully and indeed used it exclusively until I got my Peleng 8mm. It has its weaknesses, but it is capable of really excellent work, and you need much less stitching because of the wide FOV.
One thing you can do with PTgui is to add a few vertical and horizontal "line" type correlations betweeen adjacent images. One of those on the vertical of that left-most rack would force the stitch seam into proper alignment. And one along the corner between the ceiling and the horizontal beam across the room would also help.
Glad you liked my simple one-shot panorama. It was taken with the equivalent of a 16mm lens, but rectilinear, not fisheye.
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Valerij Reznikov
{K:3367} 11/14/2006
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Hi Roger. One frame panorama this time? Excellent.
I’ve been trying out PTGui lately, wonderful. You were right. Does a good job. Although I could not get good results when stitching 3 rows of 18 mm (digital) frames (30-40% overlapping) inside a room. Autopano and PT did the same mistakes. Should I overlap more or is it due to a strongly distorted lens (18-70 kit). – I attach that pic.
And I visited that PTGui oriented site. But I am quite out of time lately, and out of good weather too to go deeper.
Please tell me – I have 16 mm Zenitar but only with K bayonet. Is it worth getting it in Nikon version, I mean, can it be applied in panoramic photography?
Valery
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Galal El Missary
{K:84569} 11/14/2006
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Beautiful & quiet place , great angle & colors , Enjoy dear Roger .
Galal
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