Panorama 2: Stitched from six horizontal shots in LR. The building which dominates the frame is in itself the center of attention. I was lucky no one was walking in front of the...

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Stitched from six horizontal shots in LR. The building which dominates the frame is in itself the center of attention. I was lucky no one was walking in front of the building although people could have added to the composition. However, the absence of people adds to the starkness of the building against a stark sky and foreground. This might be too sterile for some but it works for me.

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LarryFitz Loc: Beacon NY

I think the sky is more interesting then the building

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Interesting building for sure. It'd be nice to know what this structure is.

I think there are some issues with exposure and some odd looking lines (joints) in the foreground.
--Bob

abc1234 wrote:

Stitched from six horizontal shots in LR. The building which dominates the frame is in itself the center of attention. I was lucky no one was walking in front of the building although people could have added to the composition. However, the absence of people adds to the starkness of the building against a stark sky and foreground. This might be too sterile for some but it works for me.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

LarryFitz wrote:

I think the sky is more interesting then the building

I agree the building is very austere. It is the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial and museum, in Jerusalem. The Hall is a very solemn place so the architecture is fitting. The beauty of the sky stands in stark contrast to the solemnity of the site.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

rmalarz wrote:

Interesting building for sure. It'd be nice to know what this structure is.

I think there are some issues with exposure and some odd looking lines (joints) in the foreground.
--Bob

See the preceding post about the building. Please explain what you mean about exposure issues. Surprisingly, the concrete façade is, in fact, of different shades. I checked the individual shots because I those the stitching caused them but that is not the case. As for those odd lines, you are pretty sharp in catching them. That was sloppy editing on my part. I used content aware to eliminate some artifact there and I should have cloned it so that the lines were straight.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

As rmalarz pointed out there are parallax (stitching errors) at the bottom center. I think they could be cropped out without doing much damage to perspective. I do like your using a panorama for that building.

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

BboH wrote:

As rmalarz pointed out there are parallax (stitching errors) at the bottom center. I think they could be cropped out without doing much damage to perspective. I do like your using a panorama for that building.

Thanks for commenting. I believe what you are looking at was the sloppy use of content aware to remove some unwanted material. I should have cloned it or even just have cropped it out.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

abc1234 wrote:

Thanks for commenting. I believe what you are looking at was the sloppy use of content aware to remove some unwanted material. I should have cloned it or even just have cropped it out.

Yeah - just for the future, that occurred because the lens' nodal point was sitting on the not the rotation center point.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

BboH wrote:

Yeah - just for the future, that occurred because the lens' nodal point was sitting on the not the rotation center point.

Said this wrong - should have been

"Yeah - just for the future, that occurred because the lens' nodal point was not sitting on the rotation center point."

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

BboH wrote:

Said this wrong - should have been

"Yeah - just for the future, that occurred because the lens' nodal point was not sitting on the rotation center point."

I checked the unedited stitched print and the confusing lines are definitely from the content-aware fill being wrong and not a nodal point error.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

abc1234 wrote:

I checked the unedited stitched print and the confusing lines are definitely from the content-aware fill being wrong and not a nodal point error.

"...content-aware fill..." This use is beyond my ken, know what it is but... - learned something. Thank you

abc1234 Loc: Elk Grove Village, Illinois

BboH wrote:

"...content-aware fill..." This use is beyond my ken, know what it is but... - learned something. Thank you

I will be glad to explain it. Photoshop and possibly Photoshop Elements has a really cool tool called content aware. As you know, when you stitch individual pictures into a panorama and have auto-crop turned off, you get oddly shaped white areas around the border. You can either crop them off, fill them by cloning the neighboring photo or you can use content aware. In the last case, you select the white area, expand it a few pixels and then hit content-aware fill. PS then makes an educated case as to what might go into the white space based upon the surrounding picture. If you are lucky which is more often than not, the white space magically becomes pretty close to that surrounding image. I presume other programs has a similar tool.

You can find this on youtube and Adobe tv. Or if you want, pm me.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

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I use PTGui to stitch my panoramas and, at least up until the current version, it had no such feature.
But - thanks for the explanation.