Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I took the base photos for these a couple of months ago, when there was some nice flat light to even things out, and just got around to trying to get Photoshop CS5 to paste them up. They're all from six portrait-orientation frames with an M9 and 50mm Summicron (the latter chosen for its very low geometric distortion), and I even got all fancy with a nodal slide and custom color calibration with the DNG Profile Editor. All that technical stuff aside, I don't claim I have a particularly beautiful overall composition -- if I attempt this same lot again, should I notice a day with good light for it, I'll try it with the pre-ASPH 35mm Summicron (to give myself more vertical from which to crop, at the very least keeping the top of the building in the middle), and see if my bigger tripod actually gets me properly above the top of the damned chain-link fence, and see if a nice picture can be carved from the result. But I'm passing this along in case people might enjoy either seeing how a couple of different CS5 pano-stitching methods look, or just want to stare into a 50-plus-megapixel M9 image. Oh, and I put these up on two websites: our home the LUG gallery (in case you can get the panorama-viewer there to work properly for you; I had difficulties), and my SmugMug-based site. Oh, and the LUG Gallery wouldn't let me upload my JPEGs at high quality, which was resulting in 35-or-so-megabyte files - I ran afoul of its 10MB-per-picture limit, so told Lightroom to compress-to-size. So. Stitched using Photoshop's "reposition" method, where frames are pasted together with as little processing as possible: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/20100824-JC-repo-10Mmax.jpg.html http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/LUGmisc1/11359884_aTkKE#1069032409_vfh2M-X3-LB Stitched using Photoshop's "perspective" method (where Photoshop warps the base images to try to create a seamless overall perspective), then subjected to a little more transformation in Lightroom to try to level things out: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/scratch/20100824-JC-persp-10Mmax.jpg.html http://photos.bazbarfoo.com/Scratch/LUGmisc1/11359884_aTkKE#1069034666_bE9T2-X3-LB Enjoy, if you're interested. I'm a sucker for the level of detail in this stuff. -Jeff