maxxnas
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Location: Bethlehem / Pennsylvania, United States
Registered: 10 May 2006
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zxcvbnm
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Registered: 3 May 2005
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 20 Aug 2007 at 8:20 GMT
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If you right click on a panorama and then left click on the menu option "about flash panorama player" it takes you to http//www.flashpanoramas.com which is the trendy flash player of the moment.
If you google Ken McMahon the site creator you can see he is a paint shop pro guru and author who sometimes posts in the realiviz forums and also see his world wide panorama entries where he says he uses a canon and a sigma 8mm.
I've looked at this before as he is local to me (never actually met him) but he created his transportation entry on the same ferry as me only a few feet away though earlier in the day. Which was a suprise.
It is a nice site. He has is very good at getting the colour and contrast right. The most impressive is the Tresanton hotel bedrooms www.lookaroundcornwall.com/panos/tresanton_bed_1.... were you see all the interior light and the view out of the windows without the windows being blown out at all. You can see every detail of the window frame. I don't know if he photoshoped the view in later but it impressed me.
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DorinDXN
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Location: Timisoara, Romania
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 20 Aug 2007 at 10:01 GMT
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zxcvbnm said: ...He has is very good at getting the colour and contrast right. The most impressive is the Tresanton hotel bedrooms www.lookaroundcornwall.com/panos/tresanton_bed_1.... were you see all the interior light and the view out of the windows without the windows being blown out at all. You can see every detail of the window frame. I don't know if he photoshoped the view in later but it impressed me.
Please look at windows reflected in the opposite wall, You'll se the guru reflected, the brighter outside and tripod also.
Dorin
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jaaaab jaaaab
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 20 Aug 2007 at 20:58 GMT
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Which hdr technique do you think is used here?
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jaaaab jaaaab
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 28 Aug 2007 at 21:07 GMT
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noone knows?
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Morten Boe
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Location: Perth, Australia
Registered: 8 Aug 2005
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 1:10 GMT
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I would say this is the old 'cut and paste' technique. There are telltale bright borders around the window frames. Not to say that it isn't a good job.
I quite often try this first and only resort to the more time consuming HDR techniques if it looks too fake.
Here's an old sample of mine using a free HDR program (can't recall name sorry) three exposures, 2 stops apart.
www.trueview.com.au/tour-interior-qt-full.html
Regards,
Morten
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Ped
Posts: 53
Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Registered: 15 Oct 2006
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 29 Aug 2007 at 9:51 GMT
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I would agree that it is cut and paste, looking closely at the window frame you can see marks where the brush tool has jumped. I also see the photographers reflection and a stitching error,,, all in all I like it very much and the errors only serve to show the guy is human. The errors can be encouraging for newbies like me. If I had produced anything close to that, I would be very pleased indeed.
Ped
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Ken McMahon
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Location: Cornwall, United Kingdom
Registered: 31 Aug 2007
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Re: What Flash Software is this?
Posted: 31 Aug 2007 at 12:34 GMT
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Hi everyone. First off, thanks for all the nice things you said about the Hotel Tresanton Room 29 panorama. The Flash player is Denis Chumakov's Flash Panorama Player, link details are in zxcvbnm's post above. I settled on this player because, despite the fact that it's very good, QTVR is going nowhere really, having been pretty much ignored by Apple for the last decade. It seems to me that Flash, with the customization potential it offers is the way to go for fullcreen 360 panos. I wouldn't be suprised if a couple of years from now no one is using QuickTime for VR panos.
On the HDR/cut and paste question I can confirm that it's the latter, sort of. Realizing that if I exposed for the room interior the windows would be blown out I made several bracketed exposures. I had to be quick because on the day the weather was fast-moving and the dramatic outside light only lasted a couple of minutes.
I then made several spherical images using the bracketed exposures and layered them in Photoshop, using layer masks to reveal the window detail in the uppermost layers with the 'room' exposure in the layer below.
That was the easy bit. Somehow I managed to screw up the position of my pano head and fixing the resulting stitching errors was pretty horrendous. Someone said they noticed evidence of retouching and I'd say this is more likely due to the extensive fixing of the stitching errors than the multi-exposure composite.
Having said that, I'm quite pleased with the way this turned out. In all, I reckon I probably spent a total of around eight hours on this image, half of which was spent fixing the stitching errors - I won't make that mistake again!
In terms of producing a well balanced composite image, this one www.lookaroundcornwall.com/panos/tresanton_lounge... was much more difficult. Though I made bracketed exposures the interior/exterior light difference was too great to make a decent comp. The sunlight was shining directly through the windows and, as a result the window frames and walls were totally blown out on the 'inside' exposures and were way different in terms of colour and tone on the 'outside' ones, making a match impossible. I had to do a lot of work to get the doors and windows looking right and had to totally reconstruct the area around the window in the corner of the room behind the chair with the foot stool.
When I get a chance, I'd like to try producing some HDR panos in Stitcher Unlimited 5.6. Any one had any success with this?
Ken
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