Morten Andersen
Posts: 81
Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Registered: 12 Jun 2006
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usd 50 for your help
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 13:52 GMT
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Hello everybody.
I am working on a tour for a hotel, and it's going great, but there is one scene that I just can't get right. It is a high contrast scene where the tripod stands in the door way looking in to the room and enjoying the view out side the room. I can't get it to stich right, I can't get the colors right, I can't get the luminance right and I can't get the contrast right. Everything is just going wrong with this one and it is a real pain in my behind  .
You can see my latest attemp here www.wideeyes.dk/temp/adjust2.swf - verrryyyyy poor...
I shoot 4+t with a canon 5d sigma 8mm and I have 12!!! bracketed images, so there should be enough to work with.
All the files are uploaded to my server in a zip file here www.wideeyes.dk/temp/test.zip (I am uploading the images now - so it will be a few minutes (15) before it's done)
Is there anybody willingly to give it a try? I'll gladly pay usd50 for a good result.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Morten
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DorinDXN
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Location: Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Nov 2006
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 14:04 GMT
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Morten Andersen said: ..
Is there anybody willingly to give it a try? I'll gladly pay usd50 for a good result.
Hi Morten don't worry if no one will anounce here within one hour period, I'll gladly do it for you 
Dorin
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Morten Boe
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Location: Perth, Australia
Registered: 8 Aug 2005
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 14:08 GMT
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G'day Morten (great name),
I feel your pain! There is nothing worse than a stitch that just wont come together. I think this is a great idea to post it on the forum. I have considered it a few times due to the very talented crew that frequent the forum. However the size of files we are dealing with is a bit prohibitive.
I may give this a go for you. However, I only have a laptop with pretty low specs here with me tonight. So, I imagine the processing will be a bit slow.
Hopefully, there might be some other takers. It would be great to compare results.
Regards,
Morten
www.trueview.com.au
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Morten Boe
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Location: Perth, Australia
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John Houghton
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Location: Hitchin, United Kingdom
Registered: 17 Jan 2005
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 21:29 GMT
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My less-than-perfect effort is at www.johnhpanos.com/mort.mov . The colour balance in the jpg images was very poor - RAW would have made things easier. The sky needs more attention than I have been able to give it.
John
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Vilmer
Posts: 451
Location: Argentina
Registered: 23 May 2007
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Bradford Bohonus
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Location: United States
Registered: 29 Jan 2008
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 30 May 2008 at 23:43 GMT
updated: 30 May 2008 at 23:45 GMT
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I don't really work with full-circle fisheyes much (don't have one actually), so I thought this would be a good time to "test my chops" so to speak. I did not utilize your zenith shot. Just the four around. Stitched just fine. Used PTGui (Mac).
tinyurl.com/5sgurq
Didn't want to spend time fussing with the nadir as I would rather use source material from a down shot. I did remove you from the reflection in the TV however 
BTW- as others have said, shoot "raw" for these. You will have better material to work with.
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Photosbykev
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Location: Gloucester, United Kingdom
Registered: 30 May 2008
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 0:57 GMT
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first attempt at anything other than simple stitching www.photosbykev.com/wordpress/index.php/temp/ but interesting to do
I dropped every other exposure and ran one set through photomatrix when I was happy with the tone mapping I saved the settings and then applied those settings to the four main image sets. The 4 tonemapped files were then put through PTGui, some minor stitching errors in the roof planking but easily sorted with some more care. 16bit Tif exported to CS3 for processing and saved out as a 1Mb jpg (sRGB)
For some reason I can't view any of the links that are .mov files I have QT loaded but they just don't show in the browser.
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Morten Andersen
Posts: 81
Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Registered: 12 Jun 2006
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 12:52 GMT
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Wow...........!!
I bow down before you all.
IT's amazing. This is so much more help then I would ever have hoped for. I would have settled and been very very happy if just one of you had helped me, but now 5!! people have actually given it a try. I warms my heart, and means sooo much to me.
I like all of your attemps. The are all superior to what I could do. So you guys (and this forum) holds my greatest respect.
There are two attemps that stands out a bit. It's Ronald`s (aka vilmer) and Kev´s, as they have managed to get the water and sky blue, and the hotel's main asset is their location. Ronald's is a bit brighter so I think I will go with that (ronald would you please send me the source file to morten@wideeyes.dk - thanks)
So what should happen now? Unfortunately I can't afford to pay all of you guys 50usd  What is most fair? Should the 50 go to Ronald or do any of you have a better suggestion??
Best regards - and thank you soooo much.
Morten
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Photosbykev
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Location: Gloucester, United Kingdom
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 13:00 GMT
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more than happy to help out where I can and if I can Ronald takes the cheque
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Vilmer
Posts: 451
Location: Argentina
Registered: 23 May 2007
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 13:25 GMT
updated: 31 May 2008 at 13:30 GMT
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Hey Morten,
I will send you the download link to the tiff file, so you can compress it the way you want. I guess your mailbox won't accept a 60 mb file?
Forget about the u$d 50.-, (that's about €8.60 now no? )happy to help, and it was a nice practice for me.
Workflow:
- I used 5 exposures per image, 2,4,6,8 and 10 except for the shot pointed inside the room, 4,6,8,10 and 12
- I did not use the topshot
- I blended those 5 exposures with enfuse
- corrected the white balance and stuff in Adobe Camera Raw
- stitched the resulting images in ptgui
- created cubefaces in pano2vr
- some photoshop on the nadir and zenith
- created swf and equirectangular in pano2vr
Regards,
Ronald
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Morten Andersen
Posts: 81
Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Registered: 12 Jun 2006
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 14:02 GMT
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Hi Ronald
Are you sure you don't want anything for it? LEt me know if you change your mind.
Thanks for posting a link where I can download it. I am actually not sure if my mail box has a limit.
And thank you very much for the description of your workflow. I've got the same software as you - beside Enfuse. I use Photomatix.
When I get the time, I will try to copy your workflow and see how well I can do it this time.
Once again thank you very much
Regards
Morten
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Vilmer
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Location: Argentina
Registered: 23 May 2007
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 14:28 GMT
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Hi Morten,
No, it's okee. Have a few beers on the festival in july And remember me if you have to much work on your hands. (The same counts for other forum members btw)
I never got photomatix to work properly btw. To much slides, and I never know how to use them correctly. Enfuse is free, you can just drop your files on the icon, and it generates the blended files automagically.
Regards,
Ronald
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DorinDXN
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Location: Timisoara, Romania
Registered: 14 Nov 2006
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 31 May 2008 at 20:00 GMT
updated: 31 May 2008 at 20:04 GMT
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Hi Morten. Not only one but so many helping you.
Congrats Ronald for wining the small competition
Congrats gentlemens is good to see such posts.
Here is my gift to that hotel.
dorin.devalvr.com/dxn_pano/test/MortenHotel.html
Dorin
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Morten Andersen
Posts: 81
Location: Roskilde, Denmark
Registered: 12 Jun 2006
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Re: usd 50 for your help
Posted: 1 Jun 2008 at 4:54 GMT
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@ Ronald......
Sure..... but at the time of the festival I am sitting in Alanya, Turkey drinking cold beer at the pool 
@ Dorin
WOW.......... amazing. You to it all, Great view out side the window with excellent colors for both the water and the trees. And inside the room it isn't too bright. What a great job.
Would you mind sharing the workflow with us??
Personally I adjusted the one Ronald did a bit. I made a selection of the doorway and corrected the colors. The original was a bit too red/yellow. I also thought there was a small problems with overexposure, resulting in very bright furniture, so I selected the sofa, bed, table and office chair so I could improve the colors of these items.
The final result - and the whole tour - can be seen here: www.wideeyes.dk/temp/christiansminde/tour/index.h... You'll find this panorama if you click "Vælg Billed" in the top right corner. It is the 3rd picture in the 2nd row.
Once again. THANK YOU ALL.
Regards
Morten
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