Hey icrontic,
I am in Argentina. Yesterday morning I was in Ushuaia, the southern most city in the world. I took this on the new camera and put it together in photoshop by hand.
A) I agree! Its a free trip so I can do some research down here at a radar facility. The Astronomica Estacion. If meteors are going to smash into the earth and destroy humanity, consider me your last line of defense.
B) psh "automated stitching feature." It sounds a little... toooo easy.
Cool I will have to try these out! Thanks for the suggestions guys! I also got some great advice from my dad on how to try and shoot a panorama:
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]scan the scene for the brightest and darkest regions, test with the histogram and decide on exposure and then shoot Manual
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Use a tripod if at all possible – level the tripod (even more important than leveling the camera)
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Focus then take off the autofocus on the lens for all shots
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Remove polarizer (too much variability unless you are using fairly long focal lengths) even though they are cool for dark blue sky shots.
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Overlap the images
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Optical Correction Software
a.[FONT="] [/FONT]If you don’t use it
[FONT="][FONT="] [/FONT][/FONT]Use the sweet spot of your zoom (mid-focal length) - reduces distortion, and overlap even more generously
b.[FONT="] [/FONT]If you DO use optical correction software
Use the longest focal length you can tolerate - when processing remove distortion and remove vignette, wide angle lenses can give fewer shots but still produce stitching issues (perspective), long focal lengths require lots of shots (a problem at sunrise/set with light changes rapidly)
He was kind enough to put it in full outline format but I thought some of the tips were really interesting. I used almost none of them when I took the shot, and didnt have a tripod but there may have been things I could have still applied.
There's a nifty old trick, mounting (old holding) a basic SLR lens backward against the lens mount, to achieve macro functionality. I tried it a while back with my 300D and 18-55mm kit lens. Worked surprisingly well!
You can't control the iris, at least not with the Canon EOS system, since you don't have the electrical connection between the lens and body. Without that, the autoexposure doesn't work, since it doesn't know what the aperture is. Obviously, autofocus doesn't function either. Basically, you have to shoot full manual, and manual focus.
Oh... but when you do set your manual exposure... if you know your lens's maximum aperture, you can dial that into the exposure settings, and it should give you a roughly accurate metering.
Nice shots.. I'm dying to get a zoom lens and a macro lens.. Even though the tubes do add a good amount of macro ability.. Real macro lenses are astonishing.. Below is an example from a forum I'm on from someone with a macro lens
So, my girlfriend and I were experimenting with different items we picked up from the shop this weekend and this is what we came up with.. C&C welcome and wanted
I meant something like this - adding textures and shadows via layers on top of the colors. Your originals look excellent; for some reason, the content just makes me think, "I wonder what that would look like under some layers."
Oh, I see what you mean! Yeah.. That'; would be pretty cool.. I haven't had a chance to fiddle with the pictures in that way at all.. We are taking too many of them and are only having time to clean them up lol
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I am in Argentina. Yesterday morning I was in Ushuaia, the southern most city in the world. I took this on the new camera and put it together in photoshop by hand.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1417260/panorama7small-loquality.jpg
Anyone have any tips for putting together a panorama?
A) what the hell are you doing there come back to normal world that's too cold you belong in warm
B) Photoshop has an automated photostitch feature
C) There are dedicated stitcher apps; I believe PhotoStitch Pro is one
B) psh "automated stitching feature." It sounds a little... toooo easy.
C) free?
1)[FONT="] [/FONT]scan the scene for the brightest and darkest regions, test with the histogram and decide on exposure and then shoot Manual
2)[FONT="] [/FONT]Use a tripod if at all possible – level the tripod (even more important than leveling the camera)
3)[FONT="] [/FONT]Focus then take off the autofocus on the lens for all shots
4)[FONT="] [/FONT]Remove polarizer (too much variability unless you are using fairly long focal lengths) even though they are cool for dark blue sky shots.
5)[FONT="] [/FONT]Overlap the images
6)[FONT="] [/FONT]Optical Correction Software
a.[FONT="] [/FONT]If you don’t use it
[FONT="][FONT="] [/FONT][/FONT]Use the sweet spot of your zoom (mid-focal length) - reduces distortion, and overlap even more generously
b.[FONT="] [/FONT]If you DO use optical correction software
Use the longest focal length you can tolerate - when processing remove distortion and remove vignette, wide angle lenses can give fewer shots but still produce stitching issues (perspective), long focal lengths require lots of shots (a problem at sunrise/set with light changes rapidly)
He was kind enough to put it in full outline format
We created a glowing cube and also added a lick of paint to the cube to make it stand out a little as well..
What do you think?
Also here is the setup we had:
http://www.onestop-digital.com/catalog/product_info.php?language=en¤cy=GBP&products_id=226
I can get you some shots that show the difference between with/without them tomorrow.
Here's a few i took for the IC photo thing:
All 3 tubes, a relatively narrow aperture:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25290649@N05/3814091604/" title="LightBulb2 by electronic_van, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2439/3814091604_20a74563b3.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="LightBulb2" /></a>
All 3 tubes, at f/2.2 aperture:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25290649@N05/3814084430/" title="LightBulb by electronic_van, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3814084430_fa828fbdf6.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="LightBulb" /></a>
Some salt. All 3 tubes, f/4.0, external flash off to the right.
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25290649@N05/3760661780/" title="salty by electronic_van, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3431/3760661780_808d7d45b8.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="salty" /></a>
Cog on my bike:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/25290649@N05/3740492119/" title="even more post. by electronic_van, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2613/3740492119_9dc112761a.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="even more post." /></a>
Sparkling Candle:
Holding the flame:
Glow Sticks - Circular:
Glow Sticks - Arty:
I might have cropped the glow sticks - circular a little different - feels very close to the edges. Still excellent colors.
Also, I went for that crop.. I will be getting rid of the space at the top of the glow sticks.. I like the 'close' feeling it has.
There has been no post processing what so ever on it.