Beautiful shot Frank. (from what I can see, there are no personal email
addresses in this header).
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Frank van Lindert wrote:
> What a concidence, Chuck.
> I also was busy today building a small panorama picture, consisting of
> 2 frames only. And I also have always used PTGui, but today started
> with CS (version 2 in my case).
> It worked like a dream: I could just accept all default values
> suggested by PS.
> Here is a small version of the result (next years X-mas card, perhaps)
> http://www.vanlindert.nl/Frank/knot1+2_with_c.jpg
>
> Pictures taken with OM-Zuiko 90/2 on E-400. Difficult to focus because
> of the stopping down and the lack of focusing aids on the matte
> screen....
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
>
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:46:35 -0500, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>
>> I've used PTGui for making panoramas for almost 5 years. Perhaps
>> because I don't make very many panos, I've only previously encountered
>> one problem and that was clearly due to motion between frames. But last
>> night I tried to make a seven frame pano of Grand Island, Michigan which
>> was driving PTGui over the edge. It insisted that the leftmost frame
>> (which contained an orange building) was tied to four of the other six
>> frames despite only one of them containing part of the same building.
>> Despite its complaints the preview image it built looked correct. But
>> allowing it to go ahead and build the final output only resulted in a
>> ridiculous looking mess.
>>
>> To be fair, I hadn't used a tripod and I wasn't particularly careful
>> with the shots. After examining the two frames with the orange building
>> I realized there was only about 15% overlap and I usually try for about
>> 30%. Also, some of the key points on the building (such as window frame
>> corners) were obscured by leaves. I decided to help it out by manually
>> positioning the two frames with the building, making a small pano from
>> that and then feeding that into a new pano with the remaining frames.
>> Didn't work. It just created a different looking mess with blurry
>> streaks of the orange building appearing several times across the final
>> pano. I think it somehow decided that the patterns in the trees and
>> leaves were more important than the bright orange.
>>
>> Frustrated, I finally decided to give PhotoShop CS3's photomerge a try.
>> I'd never previously used it since I didn't have to. It build a near
>> perfect pano on the first try but I noticed that the horizon had a
>> slight bow downwards in the middle. So I changed to (I think it was) a
>> cylindrical mapping from the auto mode and all was well. I was
>> impressed. All done with no fuss and with good performance. Recommended.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
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