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Posted: 13 Nov 2008 at 17:17 GMT
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Hi Pat - and welcome
I'm sure you'll get lots of technical solutions. But I've found a quick and dirty way of solving the problem.
Put 3 small brightly (and differently) coloured obects around the base of the tripod before you start shooting -I use flourescent marker pen cases. Leave them in place when you take the Nadir shot.
Forget about it during the PTGui Process.
In PanoV2R convert to cubes.
Load Cube 5 and the nadir shot into Photoshop.
Cut out the centre part of the Nadir shot to include the objects and paste it into Cube 5.
Then it's simply a matter of scaling, rotating and distorting to match up the pens.
Use the eraser to disguise and rough edges and either paint/copy over the objects.
Dead easy - 5 minutes work.
John
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Re: Spookorama
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 at 16:37 GMT
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Even spookier, but no Zombies.
The music was standard 'haunted' background on TV shows when I was a kid
John
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New Creative Forum?
Posted: 29 Oct 2008 at 16:10 GMT
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Panoguide is a superb source of assistance and discussion led by some of the world's leading experts. However, its main ambition seems to be technical perfection.
While no one can dispute this aim, many of the panoramas shown on the site are purely records, not photographs and there seems to be little interest in the creative technicalities of pictorial and experimental work - and perhaps persuade a few more women that we are not all annoracks.
Now, with the introduction of CS4, panoramas will become more mainstream, I feel a Creative Forum could only expand the site's base.
John
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Women?
Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 18:12 GMT
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Am I correct in assuming that on this, the leading Pano Forum, there is not one female contributor?
If so why?
John
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Re: Starting a website
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 10:36 GMT
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I don't think there's any more I can add.
Good luck
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Posted: 20 Oct 2008 at 18:53 GMT
updated: 20 Oct 2008 at 18:58 GMT
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Hi Roy,
As a fellow geriatric, I quite understand where you are coming from.
But what else is there to do through the winter? At least the heat generated by the PC will help to keep you warm.
Before I can give you any advice, can you tell me what software programs you are using to produce your panoramas? Because I suspect that you might need minimal exposure to HTML - don't let the annoraks blind you with science, art is far more fun!
John
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You gotta see this (my week for animals)
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Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 16:54 GMT
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More haste, less speed.
It's been a busy day - possibly the last opportunity to capture autumn colours in still, bright weather.
Thank goodness I can open the bar in 10 minutes.
John
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You gotta see this (my week for animals)
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 16:06 GMT
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Driving back through the city this afternoon, I happened on this!
www.j-a-willetts-esq.com/pigs.html
I think it's worth working on, so next week, when everything's been cleared away, I'll reshoot the background.
Also, it's taken an hour from shot to net - including Bath traffic and a cup of tea.
If you want to know more about the pigs visit:
www.kingbladudspigs.org
John
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Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 15:56 GMT
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It's an adapted version of a Pano2vr skin
John
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No animals were harmed during the making of this panorama
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 8:52 GMT
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It's wonderful how helpful people can be.
A guy came up to me last Sunday and suggested I take a picture of swans. When I told him I was taking panoramas, he really got involved, getting a couple of his fellow anglers to help herding the swans into position (until they got fed up and flew away).
The message is, don't just record objects. Life and atmosphere is (I think) certainly as important as technical perfection.
www.j-a-willetts-esq.com/sheerwater.html
John
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Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 16:26 GMT
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Ah, you've discovered the truth.
After hiking across Dartmoor with panoramic gear, I was shattered - and forgot to take the zenith and nadir safety shots.
Much easier to take Cathedrals but not nearly as much fun 
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Posted: 10 Oct 2008 at 15:17 GMT
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This is a variation on the effect:
The shot was taken on a fairly bright summer day on Dartmoor but I wanted a winter shot to portray the atmosphere of the place (remember the Hound of the Baskervilles?)
www.j-a-willetts-esq.com/dartmoor.html
So, working with different layers and using the eraser to keep the landscape's perspective, I used the blur technique together with a dirty grey to transparent fill.
Finally, I reduced the overall colour saturation.
But note, there is no rule that says you must show the Nadir and Zenith in every panorama. You decide on how much the viewer can see - it's your creation - and it can save a lot on work which only the purists will admire - and theyt don't pay the bills
John
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Posted: 9 Oct 2008 at 15:53 GMT
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What you guys are forgetting is that this means that Panoramic Photography is going mainstream. It will be taught and used in the colleges and, as an art form will develop in ways we can't imagine.
Reading these Forums, I can't help noticing that, to many people, techical perfection is more important than creativity and I can't help drawing parallels with my own history.
Back in the early 60's you couldn't combine art/design courses with photography - so I had to go to 2 colleges.
At Art school we were taught to break out and experiment, experiment, experiment.
Photographic School concentrated on the use of the technical camera (in those days Agencies, Industry, News, Portraits and even Weddings required the use of a 5*4 camera) you could occasionally use a Rollei for reportage, but never a 35mm.
You can guess the dilemma it gave me (it turned me into a rebel(which you might have noticed)).
Wearing my lecturer's hat; for a panorama, appreciating the technical skills required, I would award a B minus for the technical side requiring the artistic input to bring it up to an A.
This evolution should give all of us pause for thought.
John
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