irieman
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Location: East Sussex, United Kingdom
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Cyprus tour
Posted: 14 Jul 2008 at 12:36 GMT
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Just put a page together of panos from a recent trip to Cyprus www.bhphoto.biz/cyprus/index.html
All shot on a 5D with Nikon 10.5 FE in a BoBracket and mounted on a lightweight Manfrotto monopod. I've still got a couple of issues with either flex of the lens/body adaptor or possibly focus and I'm still not completely happy with VP insertion either - not helped when working in restricted space or with low angle sun either. Cloudless blue skies were nice but resulted in fairly large file sizes to avoid compression artifacts.
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photo41
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 at 5:07 GMT
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hi irieman,
sorry it seems there is a problem on your page: after selecting the pano it comes an 404 page error.
from the thumbs I'd say pictures are interesting and the places charming.
regards,
Valentin
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irieman
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 at 6:38 GMT
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photo41 said: hi irieman,
sorry it seems there is a problem on your page: after selecting the pano it comes an 404 page error.
from the thumbs I'd say pictures are interesting and the places charming.
regards,
Valentin
That's very odd - other people that I have emailed the link to directly aren't having that problem. Is anyone else getting that error? Could you let me know?
Many thanks
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marcus newey
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 at 7:53 GMT
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All looks good to me, didn't check every link but it all seemed to be working OK.
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photo41
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 at 14:15 GMT
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sorry - my fault.
See, I'm in the middle of installing my macbook and on win partition there wasn't yet quicktime - of course it works both on leopard and xp.
sorry for trouble.
regards,
Valentin
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irieman
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 15 Jul 2008 at 14:41 GMT
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Thanks for coming back to me Valentin - you had me worried for a moment 
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DorinDXN
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 at 7:07 GMT
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The tour is working,
is true if someone have no quicktime installed, i.e. after a fresh XP instalation, the page not found error is raised, maybe a note under download QT banner will help, a note like: if you can't see the content please check if QT...
Also you might change "My Title Page" with the actual title of the featured content for each pano.
thanks for sharing,
Dorin
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michael medina
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 16 Jul 2008 at 7:45 GMT
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DorinDXN said: Also you might change "My Title Page" with the actual title of the featured content for each pano.
or at least 'my page title'
nice job. some of the nadir's look a little warped, but not too many look there.
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Macro
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 20 Jul 2008 at 3:27 GMT
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Nice work. Thanks for the tour.
Is it hot there?
I like the cat sleeping on the bench.
David
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irieman
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 20 Jul 2008 at 16:28 GMT
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Thanks to all for pointing out my titling errors - the joy of Pleinpot, so easy to use - unfortunately so easy that if you rush it you make stupid mistakes 
Yes David, it was very hot but thankfully no humidity to speak of.
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mhc1
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 26 Jul 2008 at 8:16 GMT
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I like how you shot the mediterranean sky without lossing details.
Nice work - worth of imitation.
Hope to increase my quality with my gear this year down there.
Ciao
Mike
www.360de.de
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irieman
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Re: Cyprus tour
Posted: 30 Jul 2008 at 12:36 GMT
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mhc1 said: I like how you shot the mediterranean sky without lossing details.
Hi Mike
Really just a case of not overcompressing the mov file - which is why they are quite big downloads. I used a 6000x3000 equirect and as I recall a setting of 51% jpeg compression in Cubic Convertor. It might have been a little less. That's the beauty of CC you can see the result as you try and squeeze the file size down.
It's always a compromise - sometimes adding blur to the sky can help but usually I am just very careful with the amount of sharpening added ( I use a layer with a high pass filter blended in Hard Light and the adjust the blend weight) and then play with compression settings. An even blue tone like that produces the most problems.
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