Partially Fake - _TNY_6051P8
Another extra extra large shot from the Haga Ocean butterfly house. This time a 3x3 panorama shot of a female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii) which totals 315 megapixel so you can zoom in all the way on the butterfly.
So what is fake about it? Well, after capturing the center shot of the actual butterfly, I took a slightly overlapping shot to the left and right of it before returning to center, moving the frame up and repeating a center, a left and a right and finishing off with the same three but down low instead.
Or so I thought. But when I started piecing them together I realised that I forgot to take one of the nine shots!
At first, I figured I would have to abandon the shot, but then I decided to see what I could fix manually and loaded them into Kolor Autopano Giga - and found the next issue. The software had issues identifying where two of the shots fit in with the others so I was down to six shots (and not in a rectangle).
Anyways, I rendered the panorama, loaded it into Photoshop and proceeded to blend the two shots into it manually - which went extremely smoothly. Just a minimum of blending.
By now, I just had one of the four corners missing so I basically tried Photoshop's "content aware" fill on it. This is a bit hit-or-miss, but this time it was a hit and after a bit of tidying up, it was like I had had the missing piece!
Can you tell which corner is the faked one?
Flickr actually doesn't show this in full resolution here even when zoomed in so if you want all the detail you need to have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53217920105/sizes/o/ for the full 21,720x14,480 image.
Partially Fake - _TNY_6051P8
Another extra extra large shot from the Haga Ocean butterfly house. This time a 3x3 panorama shot of a female Low's swallowtail (Papilio lowii) which totals 315 megapixel so you can zoom in all the way on the butterfly.
So what is fake about it? Well, after capturing the center shot of the actual butterfly, I took a slightly overlapping shot to the left and right of it before returning to center, moving the frame up and repeating a center, a left and a right and finishing off with the same three but down low instead.
Or so I thought. But when I started piecing them together I realised that I forgot to take one of the nine shots!
At first, I figured I would have to abandon the shot, but then I decided to see what I could fix manually and loaded them into Kolor Autopano Giga - and found the next issue. The software had issues identifying where two of the shots fit in with the others so I was down to six shots (and not in a rectangle).
Anyways, I rendered the panorama, loaded it into Photoshop and proceeded to blend the two shots into it manually - which went extremely smoothly. Just a minimum of blending.
By now, I just had one of the four corners missing so I basically tried Photoshop's "content aware" fill on it. This is a bit hit-or-miss, but this time it was a hit and after a bit of tidying up, it was like I had had the missing piece!
Can you tell which corner is the faked one?
Flickr actually doesn't show this in full resolution here even when zoomed in so if you want all the detail you need to have a look here: www.flickr.com/photos/tinyturtle/53217920105/sizes/o/ for the full 21,720x14,480 image.