Brickworks workshop

[Tim Gray]

Finally got around to finishing a couple of the panos I did at the Brickworks workshop a couple of weeks ago.  I used a Jasper Engineering Pano head on a Novoflex Magic Ball with a 1DMKII (this is probably too big for the Jasper head) with a canon 50mm 1.4.  Stitched in MS Acrylic.  Raw converted in RSE.  The stitching in Acrylic knocked it down to 8 bit tiff - which was probably just as well since my machine was really bogging down on the files as it was (both roughly 220meg at 8 bit).

The first one I shot as a bracket due to the high dynamic range, but the registration proved too difficult, although I cut and pasted the bright overhead window on the right to bring it back into reasonable range.  A fair amount of burn/dodge and masking to even out the exposure on the first one.



Here is a larger shot, about 600k.  This is a stich of 9 portrait images with a final size of 3488 x 17195.  The linked image is 600 x 2680, but, unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it automatically resizes for the full screen of the browser and the compression makes it look way over sharpened.  "Save As" and open in PS and you'll get a better idea.   (Or there may be a little icon as you rollover the cursor on the image to display as original size).



Here is a larger shot, about 600k.  8 shots.

[DarkPenguin]

I like the lone figure at the right of the top one.   You should clone out all the tripods.  Make em workers.

Very nice.

What do you think of MS Acrylic?

[francois]

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Excellent suggestion! I like the panoramas. It gives another perspective of the factory. It doesn't look like a dark, abandoned, dead, mysterious place.

[Tim Gray]

Acrylic is slow, but so far it's been extremely reliable in terms of getting it right the first time.  Once you get where the menu items are burried, there is 0 user configuration required.  (plus it's free).

I figured that since I was so careful in the set up (using a properly callibrated offset head) that the PS pano too should work.  No way.  I also tried PTAssembler and after 45 minutes of setting control points it was still way way way off (I'll always admit to the possibility of user error).

As I mentioned in my first post, the 8 bit output is a mixed blessing.  I shot raw and so I could still do major edits in the conversion software (I use RSP) so 8 bit isn't the end of the world, and I don't have the horsepower in any event.  Presumably in their release version you'll have the option for 16 bit output - but it will be a honking big file.

As an aside (and let this be a reminder to us all) when I did my first full size print I had a paper profile mismatch - took me a couple of minutes to figure why it looked sooooo ugly.

[Mark D Segal]

Tim,

Congratulations. They are impressive.

Mark

[cricketer 1]

Finally got around to finishing a couple of the panos I did at the Brickworks workshop a couple of weeks ago.  I used a Jasper Engineering Pano head on a Novoflex Magic Ball with a 1DMKII (this is probably too big for the Jasper head) with a canon 50mm 1.4.  Stitched in MS Acrylic.  Raw converted in RSE.  The stitching in Acrylic knocked it down to 8 bit tiff - which was probably just as well since my machine was really bogging down on the files as it was (both roughly 220meg at 8 bit).

The first one I shot as a bracket due to the high dynamic range, but the registration proved too difficult, although I cut and pasted the bright overhead window on the right to bring it back into reasonable range.  A fair amount of burn/dodge and masking to even out the exposure on the first one.



Here is a larger shot, about 600k.  This is a stich of 9 portrait images with a final size of 3488 x 17195.  The linked image is 600 x 2680, but, unfortunately, as far as I can tell, it automatically resizes for the full screen of the browser and the compression makes it look way over sharpened.  "Save As" and open in PS and you'll get a better idea.   (Or there may be a little icon as you rollover the cursor on the image to display as original size).



Here is a larger shot, about 600k.  8 shots.
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Cricketer 1
Do you know if the Don Valley Brickworks is open to the public.  If not, can access for photography be arranged, and with whom?  Nice panoramas by the way.

[Tim Gray]

Not open to the public.  Here's a link to MRs workshop page:
http://luminous-landscape.com/workshops/Brickworks-ws.shtml
you might be able to contact Evergreen regarding access.

[cricketer 1]

Not open to the public.  Here's a link to MRs workshop page:
http://luminous-landscape.com/workshops/Brickworks-ws.shtml
you might be able to contact Evergreen regarding access.
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Thanks for your prompt reply Tim
cricketer 1