View from North Fort - a quick pano :)

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View from North Fort - a quick pano :)

Postby sheepie on Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:36 am

Thanks Geoff for organising a very enjoyable day. Rather difficult conditions for taking photo's, but very educational and interesting :)

As is the custom ( ;) ), I've thrown together a quick pano of the view from the grounds along the memorial walk...

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Imagine this view on a nice day - or on New Years Eve!
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Postby moggy on Sun Oct 22, 2006 11:09 am

Terrific pano Leon, as you say would be interesting to see on a nice day or at night. :wink:

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Postby Geoff on Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:11 pm

You certainly are the king of pano's Leon! Even though it's overcast, it's a beautiful scene and you've stitched it nicely. Mind sharing how many images this is stitched together? Was this hand held too? I don't recall you using a tripod all day.
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Postby sheepie on Sun Oct 22, 2006 2:28 pm

Geoff wrote:You certainly are the king of pano's Leon! Even though it's overcast, it's a beautiful scene and you've stitched it nicely. Mind sharing how many images this is stitched together? Was this hand held too? I don't recall you using a tripod all day.

lol - don't know about being King of Pano's Geoff ;) Once I get the pics taken I pretty much let Panorama Factory do the rest!

This one is 8 shots stitched - yes, handheld - it's a matter of getting the camera settings right and pivoting correctly ;) Helps if the point of interest is a reasonable distance from you, otherwise the distortion becomes a problem! I was a bit lazy with this one, and am not sure if I set everything correctly - will have a better idea when I look at doing this with the NEF's (in this case, I've used the JPG's unprocessed - As it looks worthwhile, I'll probably spend some more time with it using the NEF's later).
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Postby Steffen on Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:43 pm

Very interesting pano, Leon. Obviously, there wasn't a lot of colour to be captured. Which makes me think, maybe this could be hightened into some dark, brooding, foreboding image through PP?

I'm very sad that I couldn't be there yesterday (and mad at the tools that kept me from being there). I was already way on my way when I got a phone call and had to turn back to work, attending an urgent matter at the DC, which - in hindsight - would have taken me 5 minutes on the phone to sort out. :evil:

Better luck next time, I hope.

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