Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
Registered: 9 Jun 2009
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Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 5:00 GMT
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I have wanted to do this pano for several months but my job kept getting in the way of my hobby! This pano was taken in the stairwell of a lighthouse. In order to visualize the stairwell well I used a Manfrotto Magic Arm & Super Clamp to attach my camera & panohead. The assembly was then attached to a handrail and placed about two feet into the abyss. I tethered my gear with a cord just in case something failed. I did not want may camera to fall 82 feet and hit someone in the head! It took about an hour to shoot because climbers kept going up and down the stairs. The window shot was troubling! Inside metered at 1/15 sec & f/8 ISO 400 and outside the window metered at 1/1000 sec f/8 ISO 400. I had to Layer & Mask that portion. Creating the nadir patch gave me a headache also. Constructive criticism will be accepted (but I ain't going redo anything)! Be kind, it is just a hobby!
Nikon D300, Nikon 10.5 f/2.8 fisheye, Manfrotto Magic Arm, and Manfrotto Super Clamp, Nodal Ninja 5L
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Judy-A
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
Registered: 20 Jan 2010
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 5:34 GMT
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Laddie,
Wow, that is an amazingly wonderful place to make a panorama. Your shooting position was perfectly chosen.
The panorama is sharp and well stitched. Really fun to look at. 
Judy
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Gary Davies
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Location: Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Registered: 1 May 2009
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 10:12 GMT
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That's very impressive! It's so good I can only nitpick.
I would have removed that item with the writing on from the window sill. Have to say outside the window does look a wee bit artificial for me. In such circumstances I would have bracketed the whole +/- 9 stops available on the D300 for an exposure fusion. Even then I guess the outside may have remained burned out but perhaps it would seem more natural.
Thanks for the how you did it too. I like to know how such tricky shots were tackled. Would be interested to know how you went about doing the nadir patch...
Gary
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Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
Registered: 9 Jun 2009
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 11:56 GMT
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After all of the shots were done except the nadir. I removed the clamp from the hand rail and stood on the steps 90 degrees from the original position and shot the nadir. The biggest problem was nadir patches work best if the area is flat. The abyss was far from flat: handrail 2 foot away and the floor 82 feet away. I chose to clone & fix the handrail and use only the abyss for the nadir patch.
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Tactus 360
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Location: Tynset, Norway
Registered: 2 Sep 2010
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 13:25 GMT
updated: 20 Oct 2011 at 13:25 GMT
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I would be inclined to agree with Gary, especially when it comes to the dark lines around the window panes. . . Would that I could only take images like that!
There are also a couple of marks on the wall that look a little like flare. You could (and should) fix these quite easily with the clone tool in PS.
I think, though, that it is a superb piece of work and it must have taken some time to create.
Jon
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No One
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Location: Sri Lanka
Registered: 14 May 2004
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 at 2:01 GMT
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Nice memory for me, I was in this light house about 4-5 years ago, took some nice stills. Here's one very close to where you shot this.
robert-harshman.artistwebsites.com/featured/curri...
The main thing I would suggest is to lower the level of sharpening, it's over the top, way too strong.
cheers,
Robert
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Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 at 5:29 GMT
updated: 21 Oct 2011 at 5:32 GMT
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I am a physician and scientist by nature and training. I live in a world of reality. By nature I'm not artistic. I must admit that I liked the "effect" sharpening and other tweaks. They were purposeful...artistic rendering? I must admit that I do not like the window! I tried multple renderings but there is a time where enough time was spent and it was time to move on!
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No One
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Location: Sri Lanka
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 at 5:39 GMT
updated: 21 Oct 2011 at 5:48 GMT
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Not reality, simply over the top. Tone it down for a more realistic or normal human view.
It's hard to view as is. Unless you're doing a study on texture.
As is, excessive, no one lives in a world of reality other than their own.
cheers,
Robert
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Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 21 Oct 2011 at 11:17 GMT
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Maybe I will give it a try.
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Kanga360
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Location: Lakeland, FL, United States
Registered: 23 Sep 2011
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 28 Oct 2011 at 16:34 GMT
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I really enjoyed looking at that one!
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DennisS
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Location: Los Anglels, United States
Registered: 1 Sep 2007
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 29 Oct 2011 at 14:01 GMT
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Very nice.
I must agree that the window does distract. Maybe if you made your opening view straight up or down people might not notice the window quite as much. Since the window is the first thing you see when the pano loads, that becomes the 1st impression of this panorama.
There is a time to "document" a scene and there is a time to artistically render a scene. I really like what you did with this pano.
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Laddad
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Location: Kinston, NC, United States
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 19:59 GMT
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This one time where I wish the pano could rotate vertically and not on the horizontally.
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Judy-A
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
Registered: 20 Jan 2010
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 30 Oct 2011 at 22:02 GMT
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Laddad said: This one time where I wish the pano could rotate vertically and not on the horizontally.
In Pano2VR>Viewing Parameters>Viewing Limits, check ‘Show limits’.
Set Top to 360 and Bottom to –360. Output your panorama.
If you’re susceptible to motion-sickness, as I am, take a Gravol before viewing. (Perhaps I shouldn’t be giving medical advice to a physician. )
Judy
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Laddad
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 31 Oct 2011 at 3:47 GMT
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Judy,
Thanks for the info. I tried it and it really did not give me the the effect I thought it would. I have no fear of heights but spinning a spiral staircase top to bottom gave a headache and nausea. I best "leave well enough alone"!
Laddie
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Hayden Baldwin
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Location: Central Arkansas, United States
Registered: 14 Jan 2005
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Re: Panoramic of Currituck Beach Lighthouse stairwell
Posted: 11 Nov 2011 at 18:36 GMT
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I like the results and you did a very good job in creating the Pano. Yes there may be a a few technical glitches and maybe to some the texture, tones, sharpness and HDR could be improved, but I LIKE IT!
Hayden
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