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Re: New Panoramic Photography Online Portfolio - want feedback
Posted: 21 Aug 2010 at 1:49 GMT
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Jeff, think about your role - are you a photographer or a framer?
With $75 for a 36"-50" print, you are more or less giving the print away 
Pele Leung
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finding customers?
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Re: finding customers?
Posted: 27 Jun 2010 at 2:57 GMT
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better quality, solid portfolio, proper pricing scheme, try before buy, effective advertising channel (website etc)...
After all, the most important thing is to find the decision makers of your potential clients. Perhaps you can join a business group for extending your business social circle. A referral from your business colleagues is usually better than a cold call/contact. Sometimes the people would say 'NO' even if you intend to give your craft away.
Good luck.
Pele Leung
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The Ultra Panorama of Gardens in Mount Dandenong Melbourne Australia
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The Ultra Panorama of Gardens in Mount Dandenong Melbourne Australia
Posted: 2 Jun 2010 at 4:40 GMT
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To capture the colours of the gardens in Mount Dandenong (Melbourne Australia), I started a photographic project five years ago and the result so far is a large collection of garden photos. To take the project even further, I introduced a panoramic approach (ultra panorama covering 180-360° angle of view) two years ago.
Here is the outcome. Pano lovers, please enjoy...
www.auscenery.com/ultrapano-gardens
Regards
Pele Leung
Pele Leung Photography (www.peleleung.com)
AUScenery Gallery (www.AUScenery.com)
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Ultra panoramas of Hong Kong, China and Australia
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pano shots of a Hong Kong Public Estate
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Re: pano shots of a Hong Kong Public Estate
Posted: 20 Aug 2009 at 23:36 GMT
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Great effort John. I enjoyed it very much. Keep up your good work.
Cheers
Pele Leung
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Worlds largest spherical panorama
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Re: Worlds largest spherical panorama
Posted: 14 Aug 2009 at 13:45 GMT
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Awesome. 1200 pics? I guess you had to use a motor head to shoot this. BTW, thanks for sharing.
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Re: The Ultra Panorama of Yarra River Melbourne Australia
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 at 0:13 GMT
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Hans, it is a "virtual" panorama even though I still can print all individual panos out and lay them end to end as a long row for viewing. Although I can physically "merge" them together as a single print, the result may not look ideal as I believe for two reasons. Firstly, the colours of the sky on two neighbouring shots still carry some difference even if they were all shot at twilight. Secondly, some buildings would probably appear twice on both neighbouring shots - looks quite odd.
This was why I think "merging" them together might do more harm than benefit. What do you think?
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Choosing your panoramas
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Re: Choosing your panoramas
Posted: 30 Jul 2009 at 0:05 GMT
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All full size panos stored on your HD should have passed two selection filters:
1. Before shooting, you believe and accept the scene is appropriate for such an extreme pano.
2. Assuming you have shot more than one set for the same scene (should always shoot more than one set especially at unique extreme light), pick the one with the best light and minimal defects and stitch a small version to check. If it looks okay, send it to the Batch for generating the full size.
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Pan from a moving riverboat
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Pan from a moving riverboat
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Re: Pan from a moving riverboat
Posted: 23 Jul 2009 at 0:24 GMT
updated: 23 Jul 2009 at 0:26 GMT
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As long as the boat (and the people) doesn't (don't) move quickly, a two-three shot fisheye lens in constant bright light should keep potential stitching problems for a VR 360-shot to a minimum.
Panning shots from a moving riverboat or along the opposite bank of the river is quite a different story. The photographer needs to take shots regularly so that complete shots (views) for a long panorama could be stitched up later. In theory or practice, this is mission impossible unless shooting for a perfect river with constant width (the distance between the boat/opposite river bank to the targeted river bank) and no bridges.
I tried it and found this was impossible (impractical) for the imperfect rivers nearby. However, if you know Photoshop well and don't mind changing the real scene like a painter, a continuous-pano still can be generated as long as time is not a problem
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Posted: 22 Jul 2009 at 0:24 GMT
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I think the potential problems of camera shake and focusing are relatively minor as larger aperture, higher ISO and modern auto-focus would help quite a bit. Unless you are doing a VR like what Hans did otherwise stitching a long sequence of pan-photos (as an ultra-panorama) would be hindered by many parallax errors caused by the unpredictable physical conditions of rivers (abrupt change of river width, blocked sight due to bridges etc).
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Monetize you panoramic images
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Re: Monetize you panoramic images
Posted: 13 Jul 2009 at 1:12 GMT
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I have to admit that you really have a good poster market in Bath. Selling poster with a price tag of ₤120 is almost unbelievable in Australia unless you are talking about print (not poster). In fact, if you are using pigment ink-jet printer for producing your poster, you are actually producing a print which many photographers sell on their website - $125+ for an A3 print is not uncommon.
I have recently thought about this poster business but the cost of producing good ink print (poster in your term) is just too high. With my Epson 2100 as an example, an A3 print would easily cost me A$10 for material only. There is not much profit left if the target price is $20-30 dollars (the standard price of many posters produced by off-set printing. For off-set printing, the price is real cheap - $1 per for A2 size print if you do 1,000 copies. Yes, I can hear you - how can we sell 1,000 copies (the same one)? This is another story. The point is that $1 cost can really give good profit margin.
So what do you think?
Pele
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Re: Pan from a moving riverboat
Posted: 4 Jul 2009 at 12:57 GMT
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Thanks for sharing. Now I know how Hans looks like 
After reading a few other forums on this subject, orthographic stitching, I have to admit that this is not quite practical unless we can construct an ideal river with all details compressed on the same plane.
Here is one link for the above discussion:
www.tawbaware.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?t=5425
Here is another link of a case that works (details are almost on the same plane):
www.xdegrees.de/special.html
I am afraid we might have to abandon this shooting idea if we have an uncontrollable river environment.
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Re: Pan from a moving riverboat
Posted: 2 Jul 2009 at 23:18 GMT
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I tried Photostitch v3.2.1 last night and it has encountered difficulty to deal with larger matrix (2 rows x 5 Column). The software took it and started analysing the pics and then stopped moving to the save stage where it would do the real stitching. Although it seemed to be moving for smaller size (2 rows x 2 columns), it didn't stitch one pic correctly.
BTW, for shooting from the opposite bank, single row is probably enough. As a long river might involve a large number of pics (100+?), I am not sure whether Photostitch is as good as PTGUI in resource handling. We will see.
There is another situation which may cause problem. If the river bank suddenly gets widened at one point, two neightbouring shots may capture the same subject in slightly different size. Say a shop window as an example. If the same shop window but slightly different in size in two neightbouring shots, how does the stitching work? It may be anybody guess!
I will give it a go - walking along the opposite bank and taking shots at regular distance in a stable light condition. Just watch this space.
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