Judy-A
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Location: Edmonton, Canada
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Nuno Madeira
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 19:18 GMT
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Nice Landscapes! I think the shoots are with some distortion (fish eyed).I Like the colors and some "blur" you use. What equipment do you use judy?
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Judy-A
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 20 Oct 2011 at 23:05 GMT
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Hi Nuno, thanks for the comments.
I used a Nikon D5000, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Nodal Ninja 3/MkII and RD8 rotator.
One blurry image is the Kootenay foxtails in the wind. Because of the strong wind I increased the aperture to f3.5 and shot at 4000th second. I hadn’t tested the lens wide open and wasn’t prepared for the unpleasant refraction issues. I probably should have stayed with f8 at 1000th and dealt with the usual motion blur. Because I liked the location, I decided to use the image in the tour. Sentimentality won over technical excellence. 
As for distortion, I know that the Whirpool point panoramas look unlevel. Every pano I shoot at that location looks wonky. The trees on the viewer’s side of the river are all crooked and I swear that the bank with the spruce across the river has slumped, causing most of the trees to tilt sideways. Either that or there’s a space-time warp affecting my panoramas.
Judy
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Tactus 360
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Location: Tynset, Norway
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 15:04 GMT
updated: 22 Oct 2011 at 15:04 GMT
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Hi Judy,
A lovely, lovely collection. I would prefer a narrower FOV on the first of the 2nd collection, since it looks a little distorted in its present state.
Please tell us how you acieve such even colouring in (my personal bugbear) your skies.
Jon
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Nuno Madeira
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 15:06 GMT
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Wow nice, examples that i see with samyang 8mm ( and lenses with apertures like that) think create a fisheyed panorama, i don´t know if it´s the pov settings. i have some problems levelling sometimes to 
A friend of mine here in prortugal went to canada and show me some photos and a place that he enjoyed a lot,lake louise. I send your panoramas to my friend. It´s on his favorites !
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Hans Nyberg
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 16:17 GMT
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Nuno Madeira said: Wow nice, examples that i see with samyang 8mm ( and lenses with apertures like that) think create a fisheyed panorama, i don´t know if it´s the pov settings. i have some problems levelling sometimes to
A friend of mine here in prortugal went to canada and show me some photos and a place that he enjoyed a lot,lake louise. I send your panoramas to my friend. It´s on his favorites !
There is no fisheye distortion in Judys panos.
Using fisheye for panoramas does not create fisheye distortion. That is removed in the stitch.
The panoramas look exactly the same if it is made with a fisheye as with a perfect rectilinear lens.
You can however ad a sort of fisheye effect in the viewer if you use the KRPano viewer. But not with Pano2VR which is used by Judy.
What you may feel like fisheye is just extreme wideangle whioh you also get with the widest wideangle rectilinear lenses.
Hans
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Laddad
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 20:48 GMT
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As always your scenic panos are beautiful!
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Judy-A
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 20:49 GMT
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Hi Jon,
Thanks for your kind comments. I widened the the FOV to 90˚on the pano with the close tree to show more of the tree in default view. Perhaps I missed the mark on that one.
Skies. I’m never happy with them.
I started shooting six shots around instead of four to give me more overlap at the horizon. I then take at least two up at +60˚, opposite each other. This shooting pattern seems to have improved the skies because most of the color distortion was at the edges of the images. I still spend a lot of time with curves adjustment layers and feathered selections, trying to smooth out discolored blobs.
Judy
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Judy-A
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 22 Oct 2011 at 20:57 GMT
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Nuno Madeira said: Wow nice, examples that i see with samyang 8mm ( and lenses with apertures like that) think create a fisheyed panorama, i don´t know if it´s the pov settings.
Hi Nuno,
I’m not sure what you mean by 'fisheyed'. Are you viewing in a very wide, shallow window? Usually I have the projection set to 70˚ Max, which means you see 70˚ of the image in the maximum screen dimension (usually the width).
I’m delighted to know your friend in Portugal enjoys my Lake Louise panos. Say 'Hello' from me.
Judy
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Tactus 360
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 23 Oct 2011 at 17:12 GMT
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Judy-A said: Skies. I’m never happy with them.
Welcome to my world...
Judy-A said: I still spend a lot of time with curves adjustment layers and feathered selections, trying to smooth out discolored blobs.
Well, I think you do a damned good job with them.
I was partly brought up in Barry, Manitoba, which is why I think I ended up in Norway. But I cannot remember whether Canada's sub-boreal areas are populated with anything other than deciduous and betula-family trees or not.
Perhaps you can enlighten me.
Jon
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Judy-A
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Re: Two pano tours from Alberta's Bighorn Country
Posted: 24 Oct 2011 at 4:04 GMT
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Hi Jon,
When I see your panos of Norway I’m always amazed at how similar the landscape is to northern Alberta and northeastern BC.
I’m no expert on trees, but my observation is that forests here are spruce, pine, larch and poplars - aspen on the dry lands and balsam poplar and cottonwood in the sheltered and moist valley bottoms.
You have far more birch trees. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers destroy the birch trees here. They’re handsome devils - woodpeckers with red heads and striking black and white racing stripes – that drill holes in the trees, suck the sap and kill the trees within a few years.
Judy
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