BelIblis
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mediavets
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John Houghton
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 8 Feb 2013 at 8:55 GMT
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BelIblis said: On the same site, there's this image. How did the guy get to this vantage point? Just a long arm/extension maybe?
www.fromparis.com/panoramas_quicktime_vr/eiffel_t...
The photographer - Eric Rougier - has provided these details elsewhere:
I had just taken 6 shots around the 1st floor (almost circular) with a Nikon D70 + 10.5mm.
The nadir is from 2 shots from the opposite sides of the diameter.
And the same thing for the the zenith.
John
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hindenhaag
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DemonDuck
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 8 Feb 2013 at 19:31 GMT
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The only lens flare "effect" I like is when it disappears.
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John Houghton
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Location: Hitchin, United Kingdom
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 8 Feb 2013 at 20:02 GMT
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DemonDuck said: The only lens flare "effect" I like is when it disappears.
Lens flare gives a more realistic appearance to the panorama. For added verisimilitude, one should also add a good dose of chromatic aberration and vignetting. Top class lenses are just too good these days!
John
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DennisS
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Location: Los Anglels, United States
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 8 Feb 2013 at 22:12 GMT
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I don't know about you guys, but when I look up towards the sun the sky starts turning green and I get a bunch of lens flares.
Make sure to expose for correct highlights and, for goodness sake, leave those shadows so very dark that you will not be able to see anything!
Nothing like simulating exactly what ours eyes actually see as we look all around.
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mskp
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 9 Feb 2013 at 2:20 GMT
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I do not say its right or wrong and I understand the intention of adding lensflare...but there was a time where we tried to avoid it and even erased it from our images and now the softs offers us the option to add it.
Martin
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Bob Stone
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Location: Rochester, NY, United States
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 9 Feb 2013 at 3:57 GMT
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John Houghton said: Lens flare gives a more realistic appearance to the panorama. For added verisimilitude, one should also add a good dose of chromatic aberration and vignetting. Top class lenses are just too good these days!John
I usually throw in a stitching error or two just for the effect.
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DennisS
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 9 Feb 2013 at 4:44 GMT
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My Galaxy S3 puts in stitching errors without even trying. I wonder where the lens flare feature is...
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DemonDuck
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 9 Feb 2013 at 9:43 GMT
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John Houghton said: DemonDuck said: The only lens flare "effect" I like is when it disappears.
Lens flare gives a more realistic appearance to the panorama. For added verisimilitude, one should also add a good dose of chromatic aberration and vignetting. Top class lenses are just too good these days!
John
Boy have I got a $20 lens for you. One of my very fist wide angle converter lenses. I can't even sell it on eBay. Perfect for that ever elusive verisimilitude.... 
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Flashificator
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Location: Lima, Peru
Registered: 16 May 2012
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Re: Lens flare effect
Posted: 9 Feb 2013 at 21:07 GMT
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Different people, different tastes. There are few things I dislike as much as I do autorotation for panoramas. It is a feature that is required for most first timers to understand that the image on their screen is not just a static snapshot... and that makes getting rid of the autorotation in projects "impossible". Lensflares... Can't say I love them, can't say I don't dislike them ... but most first timers like them... for them it makes the scene more "real"... their sense of reality is clearly one from bad TV and movie productions, where lensflares are often very visible and even added artificially to create some kind of added "realism" ... In my reality, lensflares are not a standard part of my vision, but this is a cheap addition for panos, useful to cover up bad lens errors against the sun or other bright objects. ... and I still don't like those personally, but I have seen way too often how people seeing interactive panoramas for the first time, are impressed by the "realism" the lensflares provide.
... and I still don't like lensflares... not as results from bad lenses or as results from a tour design point of view... yet I do apply these for clients and in showcase tours for potential clients.
I guess it is like having a shop: Just because there are is a demand for baby food and you don't have babies or like the taste, it doesn't warrant excluding that range of products from your shop.
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