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Chat => Photography => Topic started by: zpyder on May 04, 2010, 17:13:31 PM
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Some more shots taken out whilst walking, this time along a bit of the Purbeck coastline yesterday!
Durdle Dor in the distance:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4039/4575757410_1e649e9f53_b.jpg)
And looking the other way:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4575096575_1f1c4339ee_b.jpg)
And this valley thing was weird. It kind of looks like the pano has warped things a bit, but it isnt that warped, at all, it looked like that IRL:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4575078867_7b481ebfbd_b.jpg)
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Anything with a U shape, broad flattish bottom, then bending to steep sides is almost inevitably caused by ice. Water almost always produces a V shape or a flat flood plain.
They dont believe Dorset was covered by an ice sheet but water in the chalk froze in the surface and was the resultant fragments were then eroded during the thawing, which probably caused this.*
*educated guess.
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I remember that all business from my GCSEs, it looks remarkable when you see it for real though.
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The irony is how much I couldnt stand geography at school and the resulting lack of knowledge when it comes to understanding the landscape the ecology depends on!
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... i seriously need to get out and walk places!
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The great thing about panoramas is the way they give the human eye perspective in terms of scale whilst also giving the width of view that the eye does; your shots above do this well. They look unusual in terms of pictures as they are normally published/posted , but true-to-life in real-eye terms. You dont need more than 2 or 3 shots to make it work either.
This is the sort of thing I mean:
(http://www.morssdn.idps.co.uk/images/Scourstpano.jpg)
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Do you use a special lens or do you stich together ?
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Most stitch together, its easier to do it that way. A few of the latest cameras do it automatically.
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Autosift-pano + Hugin FTW.
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I gave up on hugin and just use photoshops photomerge tool now. Sure hugin can give slightly better results most of the time, but I would much rather get the photos processed to an ok standard than the slight extra hassle involved in hugin.
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I gave up on hugin and just use photoshops photomerge tool now. Sure hugin can give slightly better results most of the time, but I would much rather get the photos processed to an ok standard than the slight extra hassle involved in hugin.
Which bit of Hugin do you find hassley?
Will have to give the photoshop thing a go though, havent tried that.
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None if it is "hassle" per se, but the number of clicks is more, and there are far too many options in the menus. Photoshop is literally open the tool -> select photos -> click ok.
Plus it seems that hugin now refuses to work on Win 7 64 for me.