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Perth City Sunrise Pano

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:30 am
by MattyO
Words cannot describe how chuffed i am with this shot. The final image is 4500x13000odd and is sharp as a tack all over! This shot made the early wake up worth it all. The early bird does get the worm!

Image

Click to see a slightly larger version

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:38 am
by BBJ
Matty, bloody beautifull shot, makes it all worth that getting up early for well done. Get it printed stick on the wall.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 10:58 am
by blinkblink
Excellent shot. Makes me a little home sick.
Well done.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 12:08 pm
by Killakoala
As far as panos go, it is a very nice one.

My only concern with the image is the brightness of the sun/sky on the right hand side. Perhaps next time you could use a graduated neutral density filter to lessen the brightness without impacting on the foreground.

Still, i reckon it will look great printed. :)

Nice work.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 2:24 pm
by adam
Beautiful!

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 4:25 pm
by antman
I'd be happy with that. Lovely.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:33 pm
by NJ
very, very nice!

i love the colours, shame about the blown sky to the right though. that said i still agree with killakoala, it would look really great printed.

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2006 8:59 pm
by stubbsy
Matty

You should be justifiably proud of this. Yes the sky is blown on the right, but it's still a fantastic image. You should also be able to fix part of that blown sky in Photoshop with some selective use of the dodge tool and some Grad ND treatment in PSCS

PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 12:33 am
by obzelite
i wouldn't mind printing that up and putting it in the shop as a demo of what our printer can do.

How does 4 meters long sound :)

Don't even know how you would go about block mounting it.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 2:57 pm
by MattyO
Simon, that print 4 meters long would be about... 1.15metres tall

As soon as i can get some stock of some epson photo gloss or ilford smooth pearl paper i was going to print it out 300mm wide, which would end up about a bit over a metre long i think

The full image is 4734px by 16408px which is about 77 Megapixels. But if you want to print a big one, I can give you a cd with the photoshop file of the image. You can print it as long as you keep my name on it and you give me a copy :P

hahahah and if anyone wants a copy of it that big, you have to give me a part of the profits!

What sort of printer do you have at work? What is the maximum size roll paper you can use?

PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 3:15 pm
by Alpha_7
Great Pano there, and I'm not too much of a purist so the blown sky doesn't bother me. Well done, I imagine that took a while to stitch.

PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:52 pm
by MattyO
Image

Just a bit of a remake, adjusted the shadows to bring the buildings out lighter, changed the blown highlight in the sky a little, and just a little contrast and saturation adjustment.

Also fixed some obvious stitchmarks

PostPosted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:59 pm
by adam
Nicer!

PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:07 am
by obzelite
MattyO wrote:
What sort of printer do you have at work? What is the maximum size roll paper you can use?


roland SP540, roll size is 1.37m x 50m, maximum print is 53inchs high.

its good for 1440 dpi, but profiles i have for the media we use only go to 1050. But thats still ok for the size i print stuff.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:36 am
by stubbsy
Matty

That rework makes the image even better.

PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:48 am
by MHD
Very nice stuff!
Print it!

PostPosted: Wed Dec 13, 2006 7:15 pm
by MattyO
the very kind people at our printing store gave me a test sample of about 930mm of epson premium luster paper to have a trial with before we buy.

Ive printed this image out at 260x900 and it looks pretty farken good. The print barely fits in the bath and the photo doesn't really do it much justice so i wont bother posting it.

PostPosted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:18 am
by adam
Fold it before putting it in the bath! :lol:

Would like to see this in person. Make sure you display it when you have an exhibition :)

PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:15 am
by seeto.centric
wow.. im simply blown away by this!
just curious.. what did you use to produce such an image? ie. specialist equipment?

-julz

PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 10:47 am
by thelastname
Fantastic shot, well done on a great job.

PostPosted: Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:57 am
by MattyO
seeto.centric wrote:wow.. im simply blown away by this!
just curious.. what did you use to produce such an image? ie. specialist equipment?

-julz


nah mate. Just loaded the 70-200 onto my camera and mounted it on my tripod in portrait mode, and exposed the central part of the city, and then took shots going around.

Then just took the time and stitched it all together in photoshop. Its more time consuming than anything.