Mark Schuster
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Location: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
Registered: 25 Jan 2006
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The Kiss
Posted: 17 May 2008 at 21:39 GMT
updated: 17 May 2008 at 21:59 GMT
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A bit of human interest. They are rather sweet and completely oblivious to their surroundings. Wish I were young again. 
panoradiant.co.uk/thames/kiss.html
Sorry about the nadir, I messed up the actual shot and had to reconstruct it. Apart from that, what do you think?
Cheers,
Mark
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photo41
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Location: Stamora Romana - Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Dec 2007
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 17 May 2008 at 22:12 GMT
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Hi Mark,
An interesting and expressive pano... congratulations
the image seems to me noisy; maybe a limited zoom in could help?
nice sky, the clouds have details;
I think the nadir looks reasonable but could be better.
regards,
Valentin
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Mark Schuster
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Location: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 17 May 2008 at 23:43 GMT
updated: 17 May 2008 at 23:45 GMT
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Hi Valentin,
Thanks for your remarks.
You’re right about the noise. The RAW files were exposed pretty accurately but in order to give the kissing couple more prominence I zoomed in quite a lot and furthermore because their faces were in shadow I raise the level quite a bit in order to see their features, even the way he cradles her face in his hands. Hope the noise isn’t too high a price to pay for the impromptu panorama.
Cheers
Mark
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TriggerHappY
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Location: vancouver, Canada
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 18 May 2008 at 2:44 GMT
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Great job Mark! Looks even better just pointing to the .swf panoradiant.co.uk/thames/kiss_out.swf
I think the pan is worth an extra bit of love in photoshop, if you want to email me I would gladly give it a tweak.
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gus
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Location: United Kingdom
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 18 May 2008 at 7:18 GMT
updated: 18 May 2008 at 7:31 GMT
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Back in 2000, there was one particular day, that a passionate kiss would have been rather more difficult to synchronise - when the bridge started to sway to and fro uncontrollably!
Good old "Synchronous Lateral Excitation".
That must have been very embarrassing for the construction company of this £18m "wobbly bridge" 
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Bridge_(London)
and a video of th bridge wobbling:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAXVa__XWZ8&NR=1
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Mark Schuster
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Location: Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 19 May 2008 at 22:29 GMT
updated: 19 May 2008 at 22:44 GMT
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Trigger,
I don’t see much (any) difference between panoradiant.co.uk/thames/kiss_out.swf
and
panoradiant.co.uk/thames/kiss.html
except with the .swf file your can’t go full screen whereas with the .html file you can, which is of course what I want my visitors to do.
Thanks for the offer to knock the panorama into shape – how do you want it? 7 RAW files will be a bit over large – an equirectangular, a bit pointless. Will JPEGs do?
Gus,
Interesting stuff you pointed to about the Wobbly Bridge in Wikipedia. As to the kissing couple, I suspect they would be oblivious to even lateral excitation back in the wobbling days.
Mark 
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Juraj Spaldon
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Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Registered: 24 Jun 2006
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 8:56 GMT
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Mark,
I like the controller you used for this pano. It has a full screen button and is slideable too. Where did you get it from? There is a similar one in Pano2Qtvr, but it isn't full screen and another one which is full screen, but isn't slideable - it's visible all the time.
Juraj
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Mark Schuster
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 22:17 GMT
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Juraj,
Not Pano2QTVR but, thanks to Thomas Rauscher, it's stablemate Pano2VR in Flash mode.
Mark
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johnjsr
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Location: ludhiana, India
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 6:26 GMT
updated: 1 Jun 2008 at 6:29 GMT
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Hi Mark,
An interesting and expressive pano... congratulations
the image seems to me noisy; maybe a limited zoom in could help?
nice sky, the clouds have details;
I think photo-print-on-canvas.com/photos-on-canvas-galler... is the best for kissing pictures
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Mark Schuster
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 17:56 GMT
updated: 2 Jun 2008 at 18:03 GMT
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John,
Couldn't find the 'Kiss' photograph you refer to. Could you narrow down the link? I think the most famous 'Kiss' was a black and white photograph from the 1940s (?). Can anyone point to it on the Internet? Like my 'Kiss', it was opportunistic and unposed. I hope the girl's parents don't see it and object to her boyfriend. I have a feeling that there might have been a court case about the old 'Kiss' which made a lot of money for the photographer, a share of which one of the 'kissers' claimed.
Zoom: Yes I zoomed in the VR in order to get a bit 'closer' to the young couple. Further, for some reason I don't remember, I'd set the ISO to 200. Completely unnecessary on such a nice sunny day. The exposure setting was about right and didn't need much correction with Adobe Camera RAW.
Mark
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mskp
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Mark Schuster
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Re: The Kiss
Posted: 2 Jun 2008 at 23:36 GMT
updated: 2 Jun 2008 at 23:48 GMT
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Yup Martin,
That's the fellow, Robert Doiseu, thanks. Just had a quick squint of his work with Google. I seems he was rather fond of catching courting couples unaware. Anyhow I think it was the second one which almost landed him in court, this one
An old friend of mine admired him very much and tried, with his Contax II loaded with grainy 1600 ASA Agfa Record film then processed in warmed up developer, to emulate him in poor light
Good old days back in the 60s before the dreaded pixel was invented.
Mark
credit for above photo
http:/ /www .staleywise. com /collection /doisneau /doisneau_2_b.jpg
STOP PRESS - just found this
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Doisneau
Seems the photograph wasn't spontaneous after all. Blooming thing was posed and the female model won a court action against Doisneau in payment of her share of the profit which included the original print which she then sold for the huge amount of 250 euros. Anyone want one of my original prints? 25 pence each! Read all about in Wikipedia.
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