Spherical Panoramic

doharadohara Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
edited October 13, 2008 in Landscapes
Located on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Palisade Head is a 300 ft rocky outcrop overlooking the big lake.
This image is a composition of 8 images from a canon 5D and 15mm fisheye. The images are compiles using Ptgui and KRPano.
389052751_cFmNi-M.jpg
Click on image to view spherical Image
View more spherical panoramics here

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  • Dwayne OakesDwayne Oakes Registered Users Posts: 969 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2008
    Haha I went for a spherical ride, that is so cool !! thanks for posting.

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  • wmmwmm Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited October 8, 2008
    That is one of the coolest things I have seen. Was it difficult to do?
  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited October 8, 2008
    Great 360 image clap.gif

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  • Dave CleeDave Clee Registered Users Posts: 536 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    Very cool !!!
    Still searching for the light...

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  • nachtmerrienachtmerrie Registered Users Posts: 55 Big grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    It looks . . . surreal and magical, to me. I like it. =)
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  • jopapecajopapeca Registered Users Posts: 87 Big grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    Nice. Very cool thumb.gif
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  • MalteMalte Registered Users Posts: 1,181 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    dohara wrote:
    Located on the North Shore of Lake Superior, Palisade Head is a 300 ft rocky outcrop overlooking the big lake.
    This image is a composition of 8 images from a canon 5D and 15mm fisheye. The images are compiles using Ptgui and KRPano.
    389052751_cFmNi-M.jpg
    Click on image to view spherical Image
    View more spherical panoramics here

    Very cool. I've always wondered how there's never any feet or tripod legs in these shots when looking down. headscratch.gif

    Malte
  • doharadohara Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    wmm wrote:
    That is one of the coolest things I have seen. Was it difficult to do?
    While not difficult, as with any specialty type of photography, there is a bit of a learning curve and investment of time and money.

    1. You must first learn how to do precise panoramics.
    $600 fisheye, $500 panoramic tripod head
    This technique requires manual focus, manual white balance, manual exposure, and often times multiple exposures (HDR)

    2. Spherical stitching - I use a program called PTgui - there is allot of help on this site and it takes practice. Program cost $179 Euros .
    ---note--- This is where I ran into another cost. My Existing PC (Duo core Asus, XP, 3GB RAM) choked when trying to process these images. Sometimes it would take 3 hours to do one stitched image. While the program will stitch just fine, it will take some time.
    I have since bought a new PC just for the panoramics. It now takes about 15 minutes to do a 24image 16bit tiff HDR stitch. (New PC-$2000 US)
    note: a final stitched image can be over 1GB in size.

    3. Once you have your image, it must be made ready for the web. Here I use KR Pano. I stay with the 16bit tiff through the entire process in order to keep the highest quality until this point. At this point I change the 16 bit tiff to an 8 bit jpg for the web. The file size drops from +1GB to ~50MB.
    KRPano takes this image and cuts it up into manageable pieces for mutli resolution web display, much like you see in Google Maps and Google Earth.

    4. These files are than uploaded to your web host and linked to wherever you want to display it.

    This video shows you the entire process needed to produce a spherical panoramic.

    I'm no expert and still have much to learn, but I Hope this helps a bit.
  • kitvankitvan Registered Users Posts: 243 Major grins
    edited October 9, 2008
    that's fantastic!!clap.gif

    man I gotta learn how to do that! Great job! clap.gif
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  • wfellerwfeller Registered Users Posts: 2,625 Major grins
    edited October 10, 2008
    That's trick. Very nice.
    Anybody can do it.
  • wmmwmm Registered Users Posts: 34 Big grins
    edited October 11, 2008
    I have looked over at the software. I have everything except the Panorama head for my tripod. I have a 15mm fisheye, and my computer is a 3.0 Ghz quad-core with 8 GB of RAM.

    My question is though, must I use my fisheye lens or can I use pictures from a regular lens (like my 17 - 40L) and just get enought shots top make 360 degrees with a sufficient amout of overlap...or does it need to be a fisheye lens?

    Plus the PTGUI and the KRPano software doesnt seem to have much instruction on how to use it. Maybe when I buy it it will. Or are there other programs that may be more user friendly or have more instruction?

    Thanks for all your help!
  • DogdotsDogdots Registered Users Posts: 8,795 Major grins
    edited October 11, 2008
    That was cool....did it twice thumb.gif
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  • DaddyODaddyO Registered Users Posts: 4,466 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2008
    Wow, whats not to like? Great result from your effort. thumb.gifthumbthumb.gif
    Michael
  • RBrogenRBrogen Registered Users Posts: 1,518 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2008
    Absolutely on my list of things to learn next!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!
    Randy Brogen, CPP
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    Member: PPA , PPANE, PPAM & NAPP
  • SteveFSteveF Registered Users Posts: 466 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2008
    Very fun. Really enjoyed the image as well as your explanation.

    I live in central Minnesota and have been to that spot quite a few times.

    I assume you did some cloning to get rid of the tripod / shadows?
    Steve
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  • doharadohara Registered Users Posts: 58 Big grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    wmm wrote:
    I have looked over at the software. I have everything except the Panorama head for my tripod. I have a 15mm fisheye, and my computer is a 3.0 Ghz quad-core with 8 GB of RAM.

    My question is though, must I use my fisheye lens or can I use pictures from a regular lens (like my 17 - 40L) and just get enought shots top make 360 degrees with a sufficient amout of overlap...or does it need to be a fisheye lens?

    Plus the PTGUI and the KRPano software doesnt seem to have much instruction on how to use it. Maybe when I buy it it will. Or are there other programs that may be more user friendly or have more instruction?

    Thanks for all your help!
    Your lens will work fine. PTGiu software will recognize it!
  • MikeInRochesterMikeInRochester Registered Users Posts: 11 Big grins
    edited October 13, 2008
    Absolutely amazing!

    I love it.
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