Ghirardelli Evening

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LOL Jouko. Yes, there were no swallows, but there were large pelicans flying right through a couple of these shots. No sign of them here however!

Mike, I used portrait orientation because is was already zoomed out to 40 (my limit) and portrait mode would have just made narrower images where the top and bottom would have been cropped out anyway. I'm getting a 24-105. Then I can zoom in more and make portrait mode panoramas where this image might be 4,000x10,000. But I could make a very large print from this I believe. The detail when seen at 100% is great. I just used PS, but will get better software soon. I lined everything up perfectly and when I joined the images, even the sky blended so well, that I hardly had to work on it at all. When zoomed to 40, each image has very little curve and they joined perfectly. Not even one pixel looked out of place. I was totally surprized.

I overlapped each image by about 50%! Maybe that is why it came out so perfect. The mast of the ship was in the middle of the left hand one and the building above and to the left of the Ghiradelli sign was in the middle of the right hand image. When I had all 4 images in one file, I cropped it for a 2x5 ratio.

Am I doing this right? I have no idea, but the full sized version looks like I took one shot with a panoramic camera!

Patrick

Thanks for looking! I think I'll do more of these.

Thanks Kim. Even on the 6,000 pixel version, not one was out of place. I could not believe it!

You're right Chris (NorthernEdge). We need bigger files! Good to see you back.

Yes Scott, it worked out great. Since I was zoomed to 40, the images had very little distortion and I made sure the verticals were straight in the camera before I took the shots.

Patrick

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Terry, I was just extremely careful about how I lined up each shot. I looked carefully at the barrel distortion as I zoomed and right at 40, it seemed perfectly flat. I hear that there is even a very slight pincushioning at 40 but that had no effect that I can see. I kept everything level and panned across the scene to make sure that the horizon was exectly level and that the buildings and ship's mast were not bending. I could have corrected any distortion in PS but I'm too lazy! But I spent a good half hour before dark taking test shots and getting ready.

I did nothing special with the stitching. I just threw them into the PS automated stitcher and they all lined up perfectly. I could not even tell where they had been joined, except for one small spot in the sky which was easy to blend away.

I think that the 50+% overlap did the trick. I looked at every single pixel at 200% and I can not tell that a single pixel is out of place. I know the city and I would see if something was wrong. I have not done any cloning at all.

I will be getting stitching software for more difficult situations.

I have blown up my 350 D images to 30 inches and they had very little pixelation. This is more than twice as wide and each pixel with the 5D is of higher quality. I'm sure that 60 inches at 100/inch might still look good. Especially on canvas. My 12x18's with the 350 look as sharp and 4x6's.

I will try printing this at 16x40 just to start.

Patrick

Thanks for your comments.

Michael, I think that there is very little difference between frames because I waited for the light to be same in each frame. It got dark from left to right, so that is how I shot it. I waited about 1 minute in between exposures. So it took about 6 minutes to shoot all the frames. I think that I could have compared raw frames and made adjustments there before creating tiff files. That could even out the frames too.

Patrick

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Yes Chris, extra time spent with the camera is less time sitting in from of a computer screen!

LOL - Verne!

Thanks Doug. I've heard the word 'spate' used in context like, 'We've had a spate of bad news lately...' So that makes sense.

Patrick

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LOL Gill, did you flood the kitchen before or after you started the fire? That is a very important detail that you left out! Tell him that you only need two things in life; food and EPZ. And if all fails, just file a lawsuit against Pete for creating EPZ to begin with. After all, this is all his fault!

Patrick

Too bad Gill. If it were the other way around you could just say that you were putting out the fire. Then you would only be in trouble for one thing! Hopefully everything will be back to normal soon.

Patrick

Thanks for your comments! I just got a panoramic head to make this easier.

John (yjjeep), thanks for noticing. I put so much effort into these things.

What a small world Jim! They have her looking great and in mint condition. What a great ship she is.

Stephan, these are the details:
4 images taken in landscape orientation, 30 seconds each, @F8, no filters, 2432x6079 (2x5), 50% overlap, I have the Canon 17-40L lens zoomed all the way out to 40, so each image is flat with little curvature. I shoot RAW so I don't wory about white balance. I can adjust it in C1 if I ever want.

Patrick

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LOL Bill!

Patrick

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Ben, since there was nothing up close in the foreground, I was able to use a regular tripod. But I now have a panning head that keeps the front of the lens in the same place and rotates the back of the camera instead.

Scott, I'm making a 20x50 so we will see how it looks!

Patrick

Thanks Hawk.

Suzan...Me? Cringe? Never!

Patrick

Thanks Goug.

Thanks Koen! In the full sized version there are a few people who managed to sit still in the stadium-style seating below the sign. But for the most part the many people walking around disappeared during the long exposures.

Patrick

Thanks Karen!

Patrick