More 360 panos :)

greenplasticdave

All taken with a Canon EOS 40D using a Panosaurus tripod head mounted on a Manfrotto 190XB. Stitching was done using Hugin and HDR in Photomatix.


Brisbane Masonic Temple


Brisbane Town Hall Auditorium


Brisbane Town Hall Entrance


St. Andrew's Uniting Church, Brisbane


St. Paul's Church, Brisbane


Mt. Coot Tha Tropical Dome, Brisbane

Cheers

-Dave-

www.davidjamesphotography.org

madrusty

Very well done. I also like the graveyard IR on your website
Kim

Skippy

greenplasticdave wrote:

All taken with a Canon EOS 40D using a Panosaurus tripod head mounted on a Manfrotto 190XB. Stitching was done using Hugin and HDR in Photomatix.

Brisbane Masonic Temple
Brisbane Town Hall Auditorium
Brisbane Town Hall Entrance
St. Andrew's Uniting Church, Brisbane
St. Paul's Church, Brisbane
Mt. Coot Tha Tropical Dome, Brisbane
Cheers

-Dave-

www.davidjamesphotography.org

Dave..........my gosh these are just stunning :jawdrop :jawdrop :jawdrop
Numbers #1 + #5 + #6 are my favourites, awesome stitching too
The lighting looks great too.

When you doing a Pano like this, especially indoors, where do you start?
Do you start taking your shots from the brightest area that will appear in the shot?

Where do you do your light reading from?

These are amazing :ivar .... Skippy
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Candid Arts

These are just absolutely gorgeous!

Azzaro

clap........Beautiful..... azzaro

wfeller

Love the look on these. Very optic/Escheresqe, for the lack of better words. Whatever, great work!

greenplasticdave

Skippy wrote:

Dave..........my gosh these are just stunning :jawdrop :jawdrop :jawdrop
Numbers #1 + #5 + #6 are my favourites, awesome stitching too
The lighting looks great too.

When you doing a Pano like this, especially indoors, where do you start?
Do you start taking your shots from the brightest area that will appear in the shot?

Where do you do your light reading from?

These are amazing :ivar .... Skippy
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Thanks folks.

To answer your question, Skippy.

I do start with the brightest area and adjust the auto-bracketed exposures till none of the three are over exposed. Sometimes I can't get three useful frames with one set of three bracketed exposures and will do several till I have enough individual images to combine and get a nice final image Sometimes though exposing for that bright spot will leave other darker sections underexposed. It's a lot of fun and games and fiddling about



This image of Natural arch (bridge) in Springbrook National Park, QLD is an example where I had to take about 10 separate exposures just to get one portion of the final image correct and even then i still feel there is lots of room for improvement.

Kind regards

-Dave-
www.davidjamesphotography.org

BradfordBenn

Way Coool!

Dooginfif20

I have attempted to do a pano a few times and got nowhere. These are just awesome to say the least!

Awais Yaqub

Wow stunning !
What lens did you use ?

tlee

Very cool!!clapbow

greenplasticdave

Awais Yaqub wrote:

Wow stunning !
What lens did you use ?

Thanks

I used the Canon 17-85mm


Cheers

-Dave-

DaddyO

Wow. Stunning. :jawdrop:whew

DeuceFour

greenplasticdave wrote:

All taken with a Canon EOS 40D using a Panosaurus tripod head mounted on a Manfrotto 190XB. Stitching was done using Hugin and HDR in Photomatix.

Cheers

-Dave-

WOW!! These are very cool!! And thanks for sharing your technique!! Greatly Appreciated!

mushy

Everyone of these is just dramatic! Very well done under what looks like very interesting and differing lighting conditions accross the room.
Any chance of a tutorial or a run down on where to start and the process you use?
I take plenty of pano's (mainly outdoors) but have never had much luck with a full 360.

greenplasticdave

mushy wrote:

Everyone of these is just dramatic! Very well done under what looks like very interesting and differing lighting conditions accross the room.
Any chance of a tutorial or a run down on where to start and the process you use?
I take plenty of pano's (mainly outdoors) but have never had much luck with a full 360.

Thanks everyone.

I start usually by finding the rough centre of the room and place the tripod down there. I take three exposures at each position for HDR or exposure blending later on. Working at the 17mm end of the lens (Wider would be better but it's all I've got right now) I take a level shot, one down as far as I can go and still have overlap with the previous shot and then one tilted up also with overlap. Then I return the camera to level and rotate right (you could go left but I'm right handed so...) still making sure there is overlap with the previous frame and repeat the three shots. Once at the computer I chuck everything at Hugin and let it do its work. On rare occasions Hugin stuffs it up and I can't work out why. When that happens sometimes I'll 'HDR' the shots first then feed them through Hugin again or try using a different stitching program like PTGui.

That's pretty much the gist of it all.

Please feel free to ask anymore questions.

Regards

-Dave-
www.davidjamesphotography.org

mushy

greenplasticdave wrote:

Thanks everyone.

I start usually by finding the rough centre of the room and place the tripod down there. I take three exposures at each position for HDR or exposure blending later on. Working at the 17mm end of the lens (Wider would be better but it's all I've got right now) I take a level shot, one down as far as I can go and still have overlap with the previous shot and then one tilted up also with overlap. Then I return the camera to level and rotate right (you could go left but I'm right handed so...) still making sure there is overlap with the previous frame and repeat the three shots. Once at the computer I chuck everything at Hugin and let it do its work. On rare occasions Hugin stuffs it up and I can't work out why. When that happens sometimes I'll 'HDR' the shots first then feed them through Hugin again or try using a different stitching program like PTGui.

That's pretty much the gist of it all.

Please feel free to ask anymore questions.


Regards

-Dave-
www.davidjamesphotography.org

Thanks heaps for the run-down on your process, I'm definitely going to get out and give it a go somewhere. The only problem I'm having is making Hugin work? is it a complicated program to get running or am I just missing something.
I downloaded the latest version but only get an error when I try and run it

greenplasticdave

mushy wrote:

Thanks heaps for the run-down on your process, I'm definitely going to get out and give it a go somewhere. The only problem I'm having is making Hugin work? is it a complicated program to get running or am I just missing something.
I downloaded the latest version but only get an error when I try and run it

I find Hugin to be very straight forward so if you're getting an error it's probably something that's upsetting the application itself. Check the forums at http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/ People mainly discuss PTGui there but you'll find lots of threads about Hugin too.

Make sure you have all the plugins like autopanosift, enblend, enfuse and all that good stuff. If I recall, everything in the latest version is included...not sure though.

Regards

-Dave-