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High resolution pano from Timisoara's Union Square

Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Dorin,

Dorin Godja said:
Hi, this is a high resolution pano I made from shoots taken 1 year ago, some of the buildings are in restauration process now and I'll wait to take another one and another one after each of those building's restauration is finished.
The place itself is one of the most photographed from Timisoara town.
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Beautiful image.

What specific projection was used for the final result? It is very effective.

That is also a very nice pano viewer.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dorin Godja said:
Hi, this is a high resolution pano I made from shoots taken 1 year ago, some of the buildings are in restauration process now and I'll wait to take another one and another one after each of those building's restauration is finished.
The place itself is one of the most photographed from Timisoara town.
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http://dorin.europhoto.ro/dxn_pano/PtaUnirii/pano.html


Dorin

I'm always so fascinated by the accidental tourists found in such high detailed pictures. I had a lot of fun going through this colorful square. Looking forward to your next version! Where is this located?

Asher
 
nicolas claris

nicolas claris

OPF Co-founder/Administrator
Bonsoir Dorin
a very nice, very well done pano in all meanings!
What camera/tripod head did you use?

Thanks a lot for sharing!
 
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Dorin Godja

New member
Thank you all for replies. I appreciate very much.

The projection used is cylindrical, 360° x 51° panorama size is 50,000 x 7,591 pixels.

Camera Canon 350D, lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II at f10, Nodal Ninja 3 panoramic head with 30 stops detent ring (at every 12°). Three rows of 30 photos each, at 0°, -15°, +15° tilt. Tripod Giottos VT-809, wired remote, shoot in RAW, ISO 100 at 1/100 sec,
Software: DPP, enfuse, PTGui 8.1.2 Pro, krpano tools v. 1.0.8 beta 6, published with krpano viewer v. 1.0.8 beta 6

The location is in Timisoara, Romania, "Union Square" / "Piata Unirii" in Romanian.

cheers,
Dorin
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Dorin Godja said:
Thank you all for replies. I appreciate very much.

The projection used is cylindrical, 360° x 51° panorama size is 50,000 x 7,591 pixels.

Camera Canon 350D, lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II at f10, Nodal Ninja 3 panoramic head with 30 stops detent ring (at every 12°). Three rows of 30 photos each, at 0°, -15°, +15° tilt. Tripod Giottos VT-809, wired remote, shoot in RAW, ISO 100 at 1/100 sec,
Software: DPP, enfuse, PTGui 8.1.2 Pro, krpano tools v. 1.0.8 beta 6, published with krpano viewer v. 1.0.8 beta 6

The location is in Timisoara, Romania, "Union Square" / "Piata Unirii" in Romanian.

cheers,
Dorin
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Hi Dorin,

As a user of AutoPano Pro I'm fascinated to see you workflow. So you first give birth to the images n DPP. Where the shots taken with autoexposure, as APP allows and even encourages or did you set for manual exposure to make blending easier?

Also could you perhaps, if you have the time, make screen captures of enfuse, PTGui and krapano tools to see how this developed with so many different company software packages.

Asher
 
Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Dorin Godja said:
Thank you all for replies. I appreciate very much.

The projection used is cylindrical, 360° x 51° panorama size is 50,000 x 7,591 pixels.
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The cylindrical projection gives a very pleasant and "realistic" view, probably helped by the fact that none of the buildings are of great angular height.

Thanks so much for the detailed technical description.

Best regards,

Doug
 
Doug Kerr

Doug Kerr

Well-known member
Hi, Dorin,

Doug_Kerr said:
The cylindrical projection gives a very pleasant and "realistic" view, probably helped by the fact that none of the buildings are of great angular height.
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Having said that, I was then a little confused. Ordinarily, in a true cylindrical projection (and I realize that sometimes all projections that work in a circle are called "cylindrical", but the term by itself should imply a particular one), when we look straight on at a fairly wide building, we see its height in the image decline as we go to the side.

Here is a classical illustration:

projections_fed_cyl_150.jpg


But I do not see that at all in your lovely image. It gives what amounts to a rectilinear view of a building regarded head-on (when we are indeed looking head on at the building).

Now I realize that it is the viewer that must do this for us (we are after all not looking "directly" at your completed image). It apparently provides us, on-screen, with a rectilinear projection based on whatever direction we are "looking" at the time.

(I had never before given any thought to the theory of panoramic viewers).

Very clever. We have such lovely tools.

Best regards,

Doug
 
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Dorin Godja

New member
Thank you all for replies.

Hi Asher, I'm programmer and I write some tools if I need for processing.
The retouch/ graphic editting I done in a selfmade graphic editor. I usually addapt the workflow according with the case, people might call my workflow too sophisticated and might have the impression that it can be made simplier.
enfuse is a line command tool, also is krpano tools. they have some drag&drop droplet made by developer or made by third party coders or one can made those according with the needs.

For example, right now I'm witting an utility for having the best sharpen at various levels of zoom in krpano. krpano shows different resolutions according with the zoom, I want to have the appropriate sharpen each resolution level.

For high resolution version of Barsana Monastery
http://dorin.europhoto.ro/dxn_pano/ManastireaBarsana5/flash/pano.html
I must wrote a subtiler tool.




Doug_Kerr said:
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Now I realize that it is the viewer that must do this for us (we are after all not looking "directly" at your completed image). It apparently provides us, on-screen, with a rectilinear projection based on whatever direction we are "looking" at the time.

(I had never before given any thought to the theory of panoramic viewers).

Very clever. We have such lovely tools.
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Hi Doug,

Yes the viewer uses a projection, besides the popular rectiliniar (normal) projection krpano has available other too
http://www.krpano.com/docu/projections

However I do preffer to see panoramas displayed in a window or fullscreen in rectiliniar projection and I regard those extras more like some creative tools.

cheers,
Dorin
 
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