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Re: [OM] Tetons and the Snake River, was: More Winter Photos

Subject: Re: [OM] Tetons and the Snake River, was: More Winter Photos
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:07:13 -0500
Yes, CS3 did it all by itself with no help from me.  I did, however, 
instruct it to use "reposition only".  I find that I generally get 
better looking results from that than letting it automatically choose 
from "perspective" or "cylindrical" which, AFAIK, are the only choices 
for the automatic method.  Whether my results are geometrically correct 
or not I don't know but "reposition only" usually give a good looking 
result without much loss to cropping from irregularity.  Of course, the 
whole process would be better if I always used a tripod and a pano head.

Chuck Norcutt

Nicoletta Da Ros wrote:
> wow, nice!
> 
> pardon the (possibly stupid) question, but for the multi-row, does  
> CS3 detect by itself which go on top and which go on bottom and in  
> which order? just out of curiosity.
> 
> nico.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:48 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
> Curiosity was getting the better of me so I rushed on ahead to build the
> Tetons and the Snake River pano just to see how it might come out.  It's
> made from eight 5D images, two rows of four portrait orientation images.
>    Tokina 28-80/2.8 at 80mm and f/16.  3:40pm, Sept 18.  It was supposed
> to be about 20% wider than this but, not having a pano head, I
> underestimated the spacing of the top row images.  These turned out to
> be narrower than the bottom row so I had to crop it.  The image on the
> left is the full image area.  The image on the right is a full pixel
> crop of the river bend near top left of the main image.  You can see a
> boat with passengers.  I'm not through playing with it and haven't tried
> a B&W conversion yet but there is enough detail in the image to make a
> 24x30 print at 220ppi.  This is my first ever multi-row pano.  PS CS3
> had to think on it for a while but handled it fine otherwise.  I guess I
> should have had some sort of haze filter.
> <<http://www.chucknorcutt.com/Tetons/index.htm>>
> 
> 
> Not as bad as if I'd had to take it at noon but not exactly the drama of
> Adams' version.  :-)
> <http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2198>
> 
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Similar to the lighting conditions one encounters when on a
>> round-the-country trip which is a vacation and not a photography  
>> junket.
>>   You have to take photos at nice places based on whatever light is
>> there when you are.  Sometimes it was nice (sort of) but most often it
>> was not.  For example, while visiting the Grand Tetons I managed to  
>> find
>> the exact spot that Ansel Adams had used to take his famous "The  
>> Tetons
>> and the Snake River" photo.  But I was only able to be there in
>> mid-afternoon and under a clear sky.  Uncharacteristically, I even  
>> used
>> a tripod for some pano shots.  But guess what?  It won't look like  
>> this.
>>   <http://www.anseladams.com/index.asp? 
>> PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=2198>
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>> There was a guy, a Brit, whose book I borrowed from the library many
>>> years ago.  I don't recall his name.  I liked many of his photographs
>>> but I was struck by the fact that they all looked like they were  
>>> taken
>>> at about noon.  Compositions were terrific, but the lighting looked a
>>> little flat, like a 1950s postcard.
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