Wow, some amazing work here.

I just acquired a D90 about a month ago, and from the looks of things, I have a LOT of learning and work to do. I was happy with my stuff, until now...

walter, the thread is pics you have taken, not pics of yourself...

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walter, the thread is pics you have taken, not pics of yourself...

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you're closer in size to one than me

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Great looking stuff foamcows. I really like this one from your flicker site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/foamcows/3688267252/

BTW, what are you doing to bring out the colors in the panos? Are they HDRs? I recall you mentioning that you use photomatix on some of your stuff.

Thanks for the comment Aero...

I have a hard time with the colors as I am colorblind, but more less what I do is I bump most of my Raw files saturation up about 15 or so points in lightroom before I export the jpegs, then I stitch the images with autopano pro. I then take the finished pano into "dynamic photo hdr". I turn down the hdr part, but leave the color slider either where it is or bump it up a little to give the color a touch of pop.

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Very nice foamcows. I really like the first one (is that somewhere on the Cinque Terra I'm guessing?) Is that one a multi picture pano, or was it a single shot?

Heres a few more I finished up recently.

I think the name of the city was Riomaggore or something like that, it is the furthest south.

I had to stitch about 20 pictures for that image, I have no wide angle lens for the 5DII so the widest I get is my 35mm. (knew I should have got the Sigma 12-20 instead of the Canon 10-22)

A few pictures taken this weekend with my new Canon 28mm on a Digital Rebel XTi:

Some Big Bend pictures.

A quick nighttime pano...



...and HDR at St. Mary's Catholic Church in College Station



EDIT: FTP finally back up, no more PicasaWeb.

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full size is here... http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2599/3854484569_3fb1031bc4_o.jpg

Some recent:

A couple of attempts at HDR:

Wish I could get out more often...

BTW, I like the picture of the door G Martin.

Thank you! It's the door to Radar Room 7 on the USS Alabama.

Finished the first in a series of four for a client. This one is of Downtown Bryan.

Favorite shot from the game this past weekend.

I wasn't planning on working on Cross Canadian Ragweed pictures until next week, but I have been using the trial of PS CS4 and Lightroom just came out with Lightroom 3 Beta for free until April. Thought I would give the latest and greatest a spin.

Watermarking in LR3Beta is awesome and the noise reduction engine is keeping me out of Noise Ninja for the most part.

PS CS3 was working fine, but when I did the La Salle picture from a few posts ago, I wondered if CS4 would be any better. The edge detection was superb, but not really faster.

Lastly, I must be missing something on AutoPano. I know it works well for a lot of people, but the trial has not satisfied me. It says it can do HDR, but I still find myself batch processing in Photomatix to .hdr or .exr, photomerging in PS, tone-mapping in Photomatix, then editing in PS. Long process, but I don't expect it to be easy for hi-Res HDR.

This picture was not HDR.

24mm (38.4 at 1.6x sensor crop)
1/13
f/2.8
ISO 1600
13 photo series (though I could have probably done about 9)
Resolution: 11600x3600

nothing too artsy, but here's my dogs from earlier today.

I love that you caught both of those expressions. Great timing. They look like a lot of fun.

Some pics from this past weekend. These were just taken with a PnS but I love this first one. Man it's tough going back to work after even a short trip like this.

Mt. Humphrey trailhead (Flagstaff, AZ):


Climbing:


Looking back, almost to the top (at 12,640ft the highest point in AZ):

Next to last shot of the night. Probably my favorite so far out of 1500.

Fun, fun couple.

when people post pictures, can they post what they were using and lens...would be good to see what kind of equipment others use

Love the colors in the first three.

The second one has a really intriguing "mood."

Good job!

fyi, b2ag, the HDR part of Autopano is crap, don't bother with it. If you want to get HDR, look into Dynamic-Photo HDR. It is a little different than normal HDR, I like it more.

Foam,

Great color isolation on the series above.

Thanks for the suggestion on DP-HDR. I have used the trial for about 30 minutes now and my initial impressions are as follows:

• Sliders and effects seem somewhat arbitrary, but then, many HDR programs do this
• Motion and camera shift detection are superb
• Presets are nice, but don't seem to work with the photo I have been trying initially
• Very fast!
• Clear and simple workflow
• It's not Photomatix, both good and bad

I have used Photomatix for some time so I have gotten used to what it can handle or not handle. Photomatix seems more scientific than artistic, and when doing large format HDR panoramas, this is crucial for me. I really need my process to be adaptable and repeatable. I may find that working with DP-HDR that this is possible. It would really only be useful at the beginning of the workflow with its movement detection or at the end if I can figure out the tone-mapping quirks.

My workflow is:

• Capture - vertical orientation, 3 photos per scene (-2, 0, +2)
• Pan, overlapping 25%
• Tilt up 33% for mult-row pano grids
• Import and remove xml data with the Lightroom preset "zeroed"
• Batch to 32-bit .exr in Photomatix
• Photomerge in CS3
• Retouch blending errors by adjusting masks before saving
• Flatten and save as .exr
• Tone map in Photomatix
• Save as 16-bit Tiff
• Final retouching in Photoshop.

If I can get my hands on a 1d Mark II or better I would like to add more pictures to the bracket and reduce the step size. Meanwhile, I am really enjoying the challenge of handheld panos (non-hdr). I shot 7 individual panos at the wedding I shot last week and I think it will give a different perspective on the whole day.

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5D and 17-40L for all of the ones I just posted.

A few pics I took about a month ago...


Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40, f/13, ISO 100
Post Processing: 2 exposure (4s & 1/4s) manual blend in PS


Canon 5D Mark II, 17-40, f/16, ISO 200
Post Processing: 3 exposure (1/8, 1/2 & 2s) manual blend in PS


Canon 5D Mark II, 70-200, f/10, 1/100s, ISO 800

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