HDR Panorama
Jun 21, 2012 17:52:22 #
This is my second attempt at posing this:
Last night my local camera club had a trip out to one of our local landmarks, Castle Eden. Whilst wandering around, I decided to go out on the field in front of the castle and, on a whim, decided to try and shoot a 360° HDR panorama. It took about five minutes of wrestling to get the camera to track around approximately level (note to selfscrape the pennies together to get a decent pano head) and a further three minutes to shoot.
I ended up shooting 96 frames and spent nearly five hours in post to end up with what you see below. I'm sanguine enough to know when I've shot good stuff (and get equally annoyed with myself for making a pig's ear) but I have to admit I was blown away when I saw this emerge from my panorama app. I've had to scale it down somewhat to fit into the download limits here but even so, it's still IMHO a real corker.
Enjoy, and comment as you see fit.
=:~)
Last night my local camera club had a trip out to one of our local landmarks, Castle Eden. Whilst wandering around, I decided to go out on the field in front of the castle and, on a whim, decided to try and shoot a 360° HDR panorama. It took about five minutes of wrestling to get the camera to track around approximately level (note to selfscrape the pennies together to get a decent pano head) and a further three minutes to shoot.
I ended up shooting 96 frames and spent nearly five hours in post to end up with what you see below. I'm sanguine enough to know when I've shot good stuff (and get equally annoyed with myself for making a pig's ear) but I have to admit I was blown away when I saw this emerge from my panorama app. I've had to scale it down somewhat to fit into the download limits here but even so, it's still IMHO a real corker.
Enjoy, and comment as you see fit.
=:~)
Castle Eden
Jun 21, 2012 17:59:28 #
looks stunning, but cant get a good luck as picture wont load when click download.
Jun 21, 2012 17:59:31 #
that is superb. Most of my HDR work is actually multiple images, hand-held. To do a 360 pano, I suspect that a tripod would be better.
Your results are great.
what focal length did you use for your shots?
I'm assuming the HDR was done with 3 exposures each. Is that true?
96 images. does that mean that you had to get 32 3-exposure hdrs in order to get the full 360 degrees?
Your results are great.
what focal length did you use for your shots?
I'm assuming the HDR was done with 3 exposures each. Is that true?
96 images. does that mean that you had to get 32 3-exposure hdrs in order to get the full 360 degrees?
Jun 21, 2012 18:02:48 #
Jun 21, 2012 18:04:26 #
Jun 21, 2012 18:06:26 #
les_stockton wrote:
that is superb. Most of my HDR work is actually multiple images, hand-held. To do a 360 pano, I suspect that a tripod would be better.
Your results are great.
what focal length did you use for your shots?
I'm assuming the HDR was done with 3 exposures each. Is that true?
96 images. does that mean that you had to get 32 3-exposure hdrs in order to get the full 360 degrees?
Your results are great.
what focal length did you use for your shots?
I'm assuming the HDR was done with 3 exposures each. Is that true?
96 images. does that mean that you had to get 32 3-exposure hdrs in order to get the full 360 degrees?
Indeed you are correct. I shot at 18mm and exposure was f11 centred ± 1 stop at 1/100th, ISO 400. For post, I used HDR Efex Pro with a custom preset to composite each three-shot to a single image and then fed the 32 HDR frames into Autopano Giga.
=:~)
Jun 21, 2012 18:08:15 #
rlaugh wrote:
"Corker" indeed..(I hope that means good!)
It certainly does :D
=:~)
Jun 21, 2012 18:09:47 #
Santa Fe Rose wrote:
It's quite a photograph! All the effort and time paid off. Hope you share more.
Thank you :D
=:~)
Jun 21, 2012 18:12:42 #
terry mcgrory wrote:
looks stunning, but cant get a good luck as picture wont load when click download.
It's a bit of a whopper at nearly 19MB so it might take a bit of time to download depending on your connection speed. The original composite was about 30MB so I had to scale it down before posting.
=:~)
Jun 21, 2012 23:08:44 #
DoctorChas wrote:
WOW!! Awesome composition ! Assuing 3-shot HDR sections - that's still 32 HDR finals that need to be stitched ! Great subject choice - and the weather cooperated as well :)I ended up shooting 96 frames and spent nearly five hours in post to end up with what you see below.
Jun 22, 2012 08:28:54 #
Jun 22, 2012 09:22:12 #
Rhodge
Loc: Connecticut
It's an awesome shot, I am big into HDR, I think the only thing that would have made it better is if you could have leveled the castle and wall? Going to need a large mat and frame :-)
Jun 22, 2012 23:26:34 #
Jun 22, 2012 23:26:35 #
Jun 22, 2012 23:43:52 #
I DO NOT LIKE HDR. IT IS OVER SATURATED AND LOOKS CARTOONISH, except for this. This has GOT to be one of the most beautiful pan, hdr shoots that I have ever seen.
I am at a lost for words to say how I feel about it.
I am at a lost for words to say how I feel about it.
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