awfulsteelmelon
Luminous ashes (720nm IR)
More old stuff, but good stuff, at least I feel that way. I really had to put some time into this one, but I think it was worth it.
Imagine, a panorama with many images, if there is a hotspot issue, then it's a "good" one, believe me. So I had to take care of that.
It appears one the most important things to do (for me) with these projects is to not discourage myself right away.
Keeping it simple, not to overthink, starting, doing every step as good as possible, staying at it, and then at the and and only then does it make sense to judge the whole thing. It's not perfect, but I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
However, when done, I viewed the exported files full screen, and I was like wtf happend? Banding! A lot (in the sky)!
I first really wrestled with or addressed this with my mountain lake panos (with the cool pine tree), and ..well, I learned a lot too, so it's not all bad. But I was pretty disappointed, not willing to start this over, cause what could I do different other than work as clean as possible. Introduce noise maybe, or a sky replacemnt which I don't do.
So I went for a run in the woods and after an hour or so, it clicked, something came to my mind while not thinking about the whole issue. And it turned out to be true, I verified it when I was back.
My source photos are clean, *sigh*, it's my image viewer! Not all but most of the issue comes from poorly downscaling my usually huge images. I'm wondering how much of the mountain lake pano hustle was due to that, cause this was not apparent to me at that time.
Anyway, so essentially, all this is mostly out of my control. It's the nature of the JPG format itself, software like viewers or mine and your browser handling image files and also Flickr, scaling photos to different sizes which is thankfully not too bad actually. So that is that.., not that anybody asked.
Technically that is mercator projection, consisting of 42 individual photos, 417,2MP, cropped to 8:5 with 16518 x 10363px, 171,8MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,6sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)
Luminous ashes (720nm IR)
More old stuff, but good stuff, at least I feel that way. I really had to put some time into this one, but I think it was worth it.
Imagine, a panorama with many images, if there is a hotspot issue, then it's a "good" one, believe me. So I had to take care of that.
It appears one the most important things to do (for me) with these projects is to not discourage myself right away.
Keeping it simple, not to overthink, starting, doing every step as good as possible, staying at it, and then at the and and only then does it make sense to judge the whole thing. It's not perfect, but I'm quite pleased with the outcome.
However, when done, I viewed the exported files full screen, and I was like wtf happend? Banding! A lot (in the sky)!
I first really wrestled with or addressed this with my mountain lake panos (with the cool pine tree), and ..well, I learned a lot too, so it's not all bad. But I was pretty disappointed, not willing to start this over, cause what could I do different other than work as clean as possible. Introduce noise maybe, or a sky replacemnt which I don't do.
So I went for a run in the woods and after an hour or so, it clicked, something came to my mind while not thinking about the whole issue. And it turned out to be true, I verified it when I was back.
My source photos are clean, *sigh*, it's my image viewer! Not all but most of the issue comes from poorly downscaling my usually huge images. I'm wondering how much of the mountain lake pano hustle was due to that, cause this was not apparent to me at that time.
Anyway, so essentially, all this is mostly out of my control. It's the nature of the JPG format itself, software like viewers or mine and your browser handling image files and also Flickr, scaling photos to different sizes which is thankfully not too bad actually. So that is that.., not that anybody asked.
Technically that is mercator projection, consisting of 42 individual photos, 417,2MP, cropped to 8:5 with 16518 x 10363px, 171,8MP.
Nikon D90 (APS-C, fullspectrum mod)
Tamron 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 Di ll VC HLD
Hoya R72 (720nm infrared pass-filter)
ISO250, 24mm, f/6.3, 0,6sec
(therefore 36mm full frame equivalent)
tripod, panorama head, remote (ML-L3)