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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 11 Mar 08 21:09
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Hi all,
Recently I discovered a powerfull tool of photoshop: this is the "Photomerge". I tried some shots and the result was quite interesting, sometimes looks like using a fish-eye lens... I think that this feature opens a lot of possibilities to explore. I'd like to read your comments about this thecnique and to see your panoramas or other works merging different pictures.
Hugs to all!
A different view of Barcelona from the seaside! (15 pictures merged)
Panorama from my terrace in a stormy afternoon (13 pictures merged)
The calm before the flood... (17 pictures merged)
Twins playing football... (2 pictures merged)
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Christian C
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# Posted: 11 Mar 08 21:17
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Very impressive. So many pictures merged and nothing is visible. Great.
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 11 Mar 08 21:21
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The most interesting thing is that I didn't use any tripod. The software really works well and does a big part of the work. Only that the computer must work full steam ahead as the merged file resulting of 15 pictures can be close to 800 Mb...
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fercar
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# Posted: 11 Mar 08 22:57
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Hola Ruden.
Me parece muy interesante esta tecnica, y voy a experimentar estos dias para ver que me sale.
Cuando tenga algo aceptable lo pasaré por aqui para que opineis.
Saludos
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sensei Domi
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 10:24
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to create my panorama pictures I use a little tool cold arcsoft panoramamaker 3 (a very original name  )
these are some results:
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Corneel Timmermans
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 12:35
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Nice Topic,
Interesting I wonder if somebody could more hint and tips about merging to panorama's
grtz
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Christian C
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 15:07
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There is something about panorama technique in the last "Chasseur d'Images" n° 302 (in french).
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fotogravenswaay
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 17:49
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two images merged with photoshop CS3, whitout a tripod.....
done with photoshop CS3.
@Corneel, I've use autostich for a while, it functions good.
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TBM
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 18:02
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Once pics like this were impossible without a panoramic camera:
(3 pics stitched, no tripod)
(And if you look inside Christian C's portfolio you'll find some of the nicest panoramas on Woophy)
But for me an interesting use of photo merging is when you create pictures that do not look like panoramas:
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Oscar_
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 18:16
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Very nice all of the pictures you made. Indeed PS is a excellent program to make some very nice panorama's. For myself I use PS and photostich of Canon that was delivered with my EOS400D. I like both programs and sometimes PS is better and sometimes the photostich of canon. For example I made a panorama with Photoshop and I was not happy with the results. Then I used photostich with the same pictures and the result was much better. But that was only for these pictures. I don't know why this happens but it happened to me.
Here some of mine:
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TBM
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 18:21 - Edited by: TBM
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Sorry, I forgot... al my pics were made with Canon Photostitch!
It works fine, the only problem is that you cannot correct the curved horizon line.
I know that other programs have this feature.
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Ruden Fretsbo
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 18:45
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Thanks all you for your contributions. You posted incredible panoramas and other merged images. The tip that I could give is that is important to shot the different pictures with the same aperture value, because if we change the aperture this can change slightly the perspective and this can spoil all the series. It is recommended to use the aperture priority program of the camera to have the same aperture in all the pictures and changing only the shutter speed automatically to ensure a correct exposition in all pictures of the serie.
Best regards!
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sensei Domi
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 19:06
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an other tip is to try and keep trying you never know what the result. and make sure that the pictures overlap, it is much easier to stitch
some for the road
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Christian C
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 19:49
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Thanks TBM, this panoramas are made by my camera Kodak Easyshare V570 and no tripod. The software of the camera merges the pictures immediatly after the pictures are taken (up to 3 pictures).
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Vidar S
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 21:30
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Exellent work everybody! Thank's for the inspiration, and tomorrow I'll give it a shot.
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Steve L
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# Posted: 12 Mar 08 22:24
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I have done some with the Canon PhotoStitch program.
On this recent one in Daytona Beach, FL. I had the camera rotated to vertical to get the coverage I wanted and made 6 frames.
This one was 4 frames in the Neumaier Channel in Antarctica.
This view in San Juan only needed 3 frames.
And I think this used 3 frames stitched with whatever program I was using at that time. I also used an earlier version of PS to remove a young boy at one side of the picture.
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Nathan Servi
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# Posted: 13 Mar 08 11:25
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Hello Everybody!
Brilliant brilliant topic Ruden, I have missed all these amazing discussion forums!
I have been through the "stitching" process, and although I haven't tried these apparently very efficient softwares, I used to get decent results whilst using a tripod and PS2.
Then recently I bought a Fisheye lens, and I overused it in the recent trip to New York!
This new lens allows for panoramic shots which include almost everything you want to put in it. Its really amazing to shoot at 10mm with a diagonal of 180 degrees!
Many of the recent photos are so enormously wide that definitely don't need stitching,
This one, includes the whole of Manhattan island from the Brooklin Bridge on the right, to almost the GW bridge on the left. Size wise, 11 miles of island in one shot!
At that point I thought that rather than stitching straight panoramas, I would work on the 4th dimension, and try to show the circular perspective. I took this shot in a very big room at the Metropolitan Museum. The camera was sitting on the central "bench" and with the same Fisheye, it took 3 frames to cover the whole room. This photo is not stitched properly on purpose, I didn't like the idea of a straight linear perspective, and "putting together" the frames in a rough way would give this weird looking view.
Thank you for sharing these amazing shots,
Hugs to all,
Nathan
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zerega
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# Posted: 13 Mar 08 15:39
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Like TBM I try to make my stitched images not to look like panoramas i.e. barrel distorted, 360 degrees at all cost, etc.
two rows of 3 portrait 28mm images on a planar projection
one row of 8 portrait 28 mm images on a planar projection
three rows of 4 portrait 28 mm images on a cylindrical projection
two rows of 8 portrait 28mm image on a planar projection
my very first one:
two rows of 8 portrait 28mm image on a cylindrical projection but still a rather sloppy post pro.
In the left you see the Convention Center hosting the Siggraph Convention where some French guys showed the immersive imaging technique of stitching together a collection of photos to a single panorama for the very first time to the public in 1995.
I use Realviz Stitcher from a French company that was a pioneer in immersive imaging techniques.
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TGB
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# Posted: 13 Mar 08 21:47 - Edited by: TGB
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Saundersfoot beachfront, Pembrokeshire
Saint David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire
Two pano's stitched with Serif Panoramaplus 3
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Corneel Timmermans
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# Posted: 14 Mar 08 13:00
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Thx,
you all!
Great images, and some good tips
I'll give it a try in CS3 I used canon stitch what was supplied with zoom browser but wasn't satisfied most of the time.
grtz
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