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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: BernardLanguillier on January 08, 2008, 06:23:37 pm
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Dear all,
I spent a few days in Shirakawa last weekend and had a few opportunities to use my new D3 and panorama gear.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardlangui...57603668972401/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bernardlanguillier/sets/72157603668972401/)
Shirakawa is located in the mountains of Gifu prefecture and is probably the best preserved example of old Japanese farm village. The area gets a lot of snow as the nearby peak called Hakusan.
Although a lot of tourists do obviously visit the place, it has retained its original layout and function. It is now possible to stay in many of the farms, but many others still host farmers working on the many rice fields surrounding the houses.
The area is famous culinary for its delicious rice and sake, as well as for the extend usage of miso.
I tried to focus my photography on textures and decided to avoid purposedely the houses on which most photographers tend to concentrate.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Bernard, thank you for sharing your photographs. They inspire me.
Jerry
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Bernard,
Please use one of the 4x4 Temple panoramas and gives us a brief run down on how you made them. I am still struggling tryig to get something acceptable doing a 2 row pano. Love the shots from your trip but especially the panos
Tom
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Bernard,
Please use one of the 4x4 Temple panoramas and gives us a brief run down on how you made them. I am still struggling tryig to get something acceptable doing a 2 row pano. Love the shots from your trip but especially the panos
Tom
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Tom,
Sure, the basic workflow is:
- find an interesting subject
- imagine how it would look as a panorama
- position tripod accordingly
- assemble really right stuff spherical pano head
- mount the camera in vertical orientation while positioning the lens on top of its nodal point at the chosen focal lenght
- identify brightest part of the scene and adjust the exposure so as to avoid having too many blown highlights, set the camera to M mode at those exposure parameters,
- start shooting row by row with enough overlap
- launch PTgui
- open the images
- align them
- optimize the panorama so as to get rid of points with too big an error
- add some vertical points if the panorama need to have vertical verticals
- compute the panorama as a .psd file (these files were 2.7 GB with only the resulting layer) - see tutotial linked to from PTgui site if you don't know how to proceed,
- open in PS CS3
- crop
- do more PS CS modifications if needed.
Hope that it helps,
Cheers,
Bernard
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the basic workflow is:
- find an interesting subject
- imagine how it would look ...
Hope that it helps,
Cheers,
Bernard
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love it:)
everything else is craft!
I have to say also, that I do enjoy loking at your work and find much of it really inspiring. Thanks Bernard.
Mike
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Hope that it helps,
Cheers,
Bernard
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Thanks, maybe PTgui was the missing piece. I will check it out.
Also the file size might be a limitiation as right now I have only 2gig of ram which will make this somewhat slow.
Thanks again for the lovely images
Tom
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love it:)
everything else is craft!
Mike
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Mike
It may be just craft but I have spent hours trying to get alignments correct in CS3(and it is easier than CS2) especially when you start work on the second row.
Tom
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Mike
It may be just craft but I have spent hours trying to get alignments correct in CS3(and it is easier than CS2) especially when you start work on the second row.
Tom
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Tom
No offence was intended at all - I love photography precisely because it is both art and craft. Every craft I've tried is made to look easy by those who are gifted and practised, but when I try suddenly become much more demanding!
My principle reason for upgrading from CS2 to CS3 was to be able to stitch, and I got a useable raw converter into the bargain (not a word usually associated with Adobe products in the UK)
Mike
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Also the file size might be a limitiation as right now I have only 2gig of ram which will make this somewhat slow.
Thanks again for the lovely images
Tom
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2GB of RAM will not be a problem for PTgui, it will just use scratch and take a long time to do its computation.
PS will be the bottleneck since interactive operation isn't too nice with heavy scratch usage...
You should get a new MAc Pro 8 core 3.2 Ghz with 32GB RAM, that will ba fast.
Cheers,
Bernard
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2GB of RAM will not be a problem for PTgui, it will just use scratch and take a long time to do its computation.
PS will be the bottleneck since interactive operation isn't too nice with heavy scratch usage...
You should get a new MAc Pro 8 core 3.2 Ghz with 32GB RAM, that will ba fast.
Cheers,
Bernard
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Thank you very much for the suggestion of PTgui. I tried the trial and it solved several problems that I have had trouble with and it did so very fast. As soon as I get finished moving I am going to get into the field and search for pano subjects and for hi def subjects.
The spouse said "You want to buy what?!!!!!" then "It cost how much?!!!!"
No new Mac in my future
Thanks again
Tom
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Thank you very much for the suggestion of PTgui. I tried the trial and it solved several problems that I have had trouble with and it did so very fast. As soon as I get finished moving I am going to get into the field and search for pano subjects and for hi def subjects.
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Glad I could be of help.
Another software package that you might want to consider as you progress on the topic is Autopano Pro 1.4.
Globally I prefer PTgui for a number of reasons, but the auto-stitching abilities of Autopano Pro for difficult subjects with few features are clearly best in class.
Cheers,
Bernard