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Post by curt on Mar 26, 2010 9:36:12 GMT
I've recently taken an interest in Panoramas. Here's one made from shots taken at Prommitr Studios, Kanchanaburi. The blimp was an added touch!   Anyone else been dabbling in photo stitching? |
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Post by imec on Mar 26, 2010 15:41:07 GMT
Very cool curt! I have to try this!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2010 21:43:26 GMT
I love that photo Curt. (I have a sentimental attachment to the Goodyear blimp because I got to ride in it on my 8th birthday with my father!!)
Very cool,thanks!!
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Post by curt on Mar 27, 2010 0:01:20 GMT
I love that photo Curt. (I have a sentimental attachment to the Goodyear blimp because I got to ride in it on my 8th birthday with my father!!)Very cool,thanks!! I'm from Southern California. I used to love when I would pass by Carson and see the blimp heading in. I would always stop and watch the circus, as all the guys would run around trying to grab the tether to tie it down! As far as I know, the blimp has never made it to Thailand. |
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 27, 2010 4:02:48 GMT
The photo is wonderful, Curt. I'm assuming one has to plan in advance to create such a panorama, right? Any hints?
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Post by spindrift on Mar 27, 2010 10:31:55 GMT
That's a great photo, Curt....
I stitched some pics I took of the mountains in Mustang. I'll try and find them. I've only attempted to stitch on this occasion.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 27, 2010 10:41:02 GMT
The mountains approaching the ancient town of Lo Manthang, Tibet/Nepal border, circa 15,000ft.  |
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Post by curt on Mar 28, 2010 2:04:29 GMT
You must have a good eye for lining up shots. Often, the angle of the camera will result in photos that require a lot of tweaking to keep an even horizon. A little, minor skewing, and the ends would fill the frame.
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Post by onlymark on Mar 28, 2010 12:52:06 GMT
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Post by onlymark on Mar 28, 2010 12:54:37 GMT
Had a bit of a play today out in the desert a bit less than an hour from home. Thought I'd try this panorama thing.
They are all taken at the same bit of desert but I stood in different places.
Just need to get the colour adjusted right, especially the far right of the first one.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 15:58:35 GMT
Damn, I used to know how to do the panorama thing and then I forgot. But I'm finally getting my old/new PC back in two weeks and will go back to stitching school.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 28, 2010 17:00:18 GMT
Mark - those are good panoramas.
K - I can stitch the pics up whilst they're still in my camera.....
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 17:05:31 GMT
Oh, I probably can, too, but I don't feel like reading the manual.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 17:12:46 GMT
*jaw drops*
Mark, that was your first attempt at making panoramas?! Wow.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2010 17:17:32 GMT
These are all very nice. Stupid question maybe, but how do you make panoramas? Is it a setting on your camera or what?
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Post by onlymark on Mar 28, 2010 17:43:23 GMT
bixa, it's dead easy. You just read the instructions for three or four hours, make umpteen attempts, accidentally delete the photos and have to get them back out the refuse bin, etc etc. Just takes half a day or so to get the first one.
deyana, as they've said above, maybe your camera can do it for you. But if not, I downloaded a programme to do it.
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 28, 2010 18:24:36 GMT
 Well, Mark, you pics are so good you made it look easy.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 28, 2010 22:45:29 GMT
well my camera has the facility and although I took the mountain panorama it only took me a minute...I can't remember the hassle on putting it onto my laptop...I must try it again.
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Post by Kimby on Apr 10, 2010 21:56:44 GMT
The only way I can figure out how to do a panorama is to use the video feature of my camera. ;-)
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Post by curt on Apr 11, 2010 0:27:38 GMT
Few cameras will stitch the images. It is done during the processing.
If the camera doesn't have a "panorama" feature, take photos while holding the camera at the same point (tripod?), overlapping by about 20%. Keeping the camera level also helps.
If you have Photoshop, there is an automated stitching feature. Otherwise, you have to overlay the photos yourself.
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Post by curt on Apr 25, 2010 3:06:35 GMT
Just wanted to bump my thread!  ;D Here is my latest. It is the Bangkok Government complex. Along with most provincial offices, it also houses the new immigration office.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2010 3:42:04 GMT
Great picture, Curt, and a real motivation to learn how to make panoramas.
I've played with merging photos before, but not to make something sophisticated like your picture.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2010 4:50:59 GMT
I can feel the air conditioning in that picture!  |
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Post by Kimby on Jul 18, 2011 5:09:05 GMT
Does anyone have advice for those of us whose cameras do not have a panorama feature? I know there is some free software that does this, but you have to download it and learn how to use it. Is there an online site where you can just send your photos and have someone else stitch them?
(Or would someone on Any Port who knows how to do this be willing to stitch 4 photos into a panorama for me?)
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Post by Kimby on Aug 25, 2011 17:04:07 GMT
Does anyone have advice for those of us whose cameras do not have a panorama feature? I know there is some free software that does this, but you have to download it and learn how to use it. Is there an online site where you can just send your photos and have someone else stitch them? (Or would someone on Any Port who knows how to do this be willing to stitch 4 photos into a panorama for me?) Bumping this, because I really want to know! |
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2011 19:04:16 GMT
Roman Theatre, Amman.  |
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2011 19:05:35 GMT
Kimby, just seen your post. Are you still struggling?
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 20, 2011 20:21:14 GMT
bixa, it's dead easy. You just read the instructions for three or four hours, make umpteen attempts, accidentally delete the photos and have to get them back out the refuse bin, etc etc. Just takes half a day or so to get the first one. deyana, as they've said above, maybe your camera can do it for you. But if not, I downloaded a programme to do it. Okay, then ......... where to get the instructions, please? And what is the program you downloaded? Does this involve layers? I have never found any instructions about layers that penetrated my brain. So yeah -- help Kimby! Help me! Help the masses! |
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Post by onlymark on Sept 20, 2011 20:48:32 GMT
The results are variable bixa depending on the actual pictures you've taken. If you notice in the last one the right side is lighter - purely due to the digital photo itself. You could alter the light on it and do it better but I tend to go for the quick short job and not fuss around too much.
Also it helps if you take the pictures with you standing in the middle rather than off to the side, as above. It ends up if you don't that something that is curved doesn't follow the curve through the panorama and the edges are difficult to match up.
I'll do a bit more tomorrow.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 20, 2011 20:52:43 GMT
Well, your example of the Roman theater would be pretty difficult, because of not only a curve, but all those parallel lines, right?
Is a tripod, or at least some place to rest the camera strictly necessary?
The only place where I can see evidence of more than one photo is the lighter area you pointed out. How many photos actually make up that panorama?
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