Baroque
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Post by Baroque on Oct 12, 2014 6:23:39 GMT 1
Alright, Linie 9. I give you Planet Edinburgh! A cookie for anyone who spots the castle. planet_edinburgh by icywintersnow, on Flickr Went through my archives and found this beautiful set taken atop a hill overlooking Edinburgh city and includes the sea - I knew I had to do it. Used my point and shoot bridge camera to take 10 shots for full 360 degrees + small overlap at the ends (the sun behind the clouds on the west screwed me up on the exposure ). This is my first try. And thanks for the instructions. Here's the original panorama picture. HOLYROODPSD by icywintersnow, on Flickr
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Post by Linie 9 on Oct 12, 2014 19:16:58 GMT 1
Alright, Linie 9. I give you Planet Edinburgh! WOW, great job! Beautiful. And what a location! I think the castle is now at the 12 o'clock position My pleasure
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Post by Baroque on Oct 13, 2014 4:03:37 GMT 1
I think the castle is now at the 12 o'clock position Ah well, why didn't I think of that idea at first! You get a bonus cookie for that. How do you make the seam between the ends less visible?
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Post by Linie 9 on Oct 13, 2014 13:27:19 GMT 1
When I use my own pics Autopano Pro does that for me at the ends: cutting exactly at 360°, no overlapping there and it has a nice feature "smart blend" an advanced color correction. To eliminate the overlapping at the ends I saved 4 overlapping pics from your pano: first the right end called pic 1, then the most left as pic 2, then the rest. The app aligned the pics by their name (because there were no EXIF data) und did it's job nearly perfect after moving the center point a bit. The Clone Stamp Tool (very small diameter) in PS made the rest So my planet is a little smaller than yours
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Post by Baroque on Oct 13, 2014 14:47:41 GMT 1
To eliminate the overlapping at the ends I saved 4 overlapping pics from your pano: first the right end called pic 1, then the most left as pic 2, then the rest. The app aligned the pics by their name (because there were no EXIF data) und did it's job nearly perfect after moving the center point a bit. I used a Canon Stitching software that came with my camera bundle. At first, I tried to do exactly what you described above, but with two giant overlapping pieces instead of four. It came out terrible - the software couldn't blend the seams properly. I'm thinking of different approach now, re-stitching the original set with a copy of the first picture placed at the end and a copy of the last at the front. And then use my keen eye to find two matching points to cut at.
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Post by Linie 9 on Oct 13, 2014 15:22:41 GMT 1
I'd say, get the free trial of Autopano: www.kolor.com/downloadJust throw in your pictures as they are - it'll work
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Post by Linie 9 on Oct 17, 2014 0:12:15 GMT 1
One doesn't need a full 360° pano for a small planet. This D-APTA pano is made from 4 pics (about 120°), shot through the fence at LHT HAM with the pocket Lumix, where the 747-400 was stored - 2009.10.31: That's enough to make a 'shrimp' First the edges with unneeded stuff were cut off, second the pic was a bit transformed/distorted to lift the left horizon: I think D-ABTA is gone: delivered 1989.09.19 named "Sachsen" (Saxony), stored FRA 2009-09-23, stored HAM Hamburg 2009-10-20 until 2011-03-31, wfu and stored FRA 2012-10-01, stored TUP 2012-10-30
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Post by Baroque on Oct 17, 2014 0:33:01 GMT 1
Looks like a lollipop. One doesn't need a full 360° pano for a small planet. Ah, good to know. I'll see what I can find over the weekend. I was a bit bummed to see that the only good 360° pano I had in my archives was the Edinburgh one above. Everything else was mostly <180°. I might have a couple of other 360°s but the individual shots need some heavy distortion corrections after they failed to stitch - a bit tedious...
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Post by Linie 9 on Oct 17, 2014 1:15:19 GMT 1
Autopano helps a very lot - much better than PS. There are video tutorials on their site worth to view to learn fast. The version here at home on my old Mac is of 2008. At work's modern iMac it's much more able to find the right points. And much more faster. Throw all in. Then when it says there are bad points: just delete them and recalculate. I'm sure it will work: all old panos with difficulties stitched with old programs are now a breeze. My next step will be to show panos with QTVR (or Flash/Shockwave/HTML5) to move around by yourself with zooming in and out (single row) - I have a lot - but most uninteresting in this board After that I'll try true spherical Panorama 360°/180° in a sphere like theese examples (Kugelpanoramen): www.pixelrama.de/panorama/beispiele/beispiele-indexfx.htmlSure I'll try to get an A380 within! May be I need a new fisheye lens - my fisheye zoom is great but a 180° view angle makes the job much faster (4-6 pics for a nearly complete sphere)
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Post by Baroque on Oct 20, 2014 3:58:29 GMT 1
A Green Planet with North-South Electromagnetic Field Lines. grass_planet by icywintersnow, on Flickr I took this shot with my Galaxy Note 3, in the 360° Surround Shot mode (composed of a number of images up-down, left-right). Location is the centre of the field of an outdoor racetrack near where I am. Obviously the camera's software is not perfect in stitching the images and it doesn't store the individual images unfortunately. But what I like about the picture is that it isn't squashed about the centre-point giving it the truly bulging spherical look of a planet. Here is the original image produced by the smartphone: flic.kr/p/oMTPcv
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