G'Mornin' Howard:
Welcome home!
Before the holidays, I tried a hand-held Pano indoors. I should have used my
home-made Pano-head, but all I wanted a q&d shot of our bedroom for our
Christmas letter, to show friends the new hardwood floor I'd just put down in
the master bedroom. The results were terrible though, I suppose, adequate for
the purpose. Lots of converging verticals, etc., to be corrected as much as
could be, in GIMP.
But, outdoors, unless there is something quite near the camera, modern software
makes building Pano's a "piece of cake".
Like you, I usually correct each panel before I assemble them. However,
occasionally I find that the corrected panels do not quite merge as they
should. In such cases, I combine the uncorrected panels and correct the
resulting pano after the fact. With RawTherappe it's bog simple, and that's
what I did with yours.
For those who do not use LightRoom (there are a few of us!), and want to try
panos, I highly recommend "HugIn"; which is a free, easy to use,
cross-platform (Windoze, Linux, OS-X, Free BSD), open-source, Pano-stitcher.
You can get it here: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
I hadn't noticed the Governor's Residence, I'm sad to say. Back in the day, it
was probably a fairly big building. Now, it just seems lost in that sea of
high-rise buildings!
I've not had the opportunity to travel as you have, Howard, but I've done OK,
with my count now at 29 countries. Hong Kong, Vietnam and Laos are the
remaining "biggies" on my bucket list. I'll make them yet!
David.
Morning David,------
I have a heavy precise Novoflex pano set but I never use it any more
because the software has gotten so good. So now, like you, all of my
panos are shot handheld.
Also, like you my horizons tend to drift off and usually I correct them
individual panel by individual pano. LR makes this very easy to do. On
this particular pano
I was going fast - packing to go to the airport for my return to Canada.
So I did not individually correct the panels but just mashed them all
together in LR pano mode and then corrected the whole pano - somewhat
unsuccessfully as you have measured.
LR does a terrific job, usually automatically, on fixing tilted pictures
and makes my pano work so much easier. Anyway, my sloppy work has been
found out in this case and when I get back to Pender, unpacked, and
restabilized - I will do the pano again properly and present it for your
viewing.
Did you note the Governor's Residence (the Colonial Building with the
Watch Tower (which was added by the Japanese during their occupation)
dead centre of the Pano in the main clump of trees left?
Thanks for looking and commenting. Glad to inspire such a lively
discussion.
Cheers
Howard (jet lagged in Vancouver)
From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2019 08:39:51 -0800
Subject: [LRflex] Re: Pano looking East from Hong Kong Midlevels
Peter: It was not I, but rather Philippe, who called Howard "The Pano-
Master".
But, it could easily have been me, for I agree that Howard is a
superlative Pano maker.
Howard: A great shot... but I'll ask again a question not answered a
few posts back... about the Main Police Station restoration.
Do you shoot your panos with a tripod (and, perhaps, a specialized Pano
head)? Or, do you, like me, do them, most often, hand held?
I ask only because while it looks terrific, all the buildings have a 2.1
degree tilt to the right! I get that, all the time, with my hand-held
panos ... but its easy to correct, before posting.
David
