dxn - Victory Square Timisoara - high resolution pano

Hi all, this pano I shoot with two lenses Canon 50mm and 18-55mm @18mm on Canon 350D, using Nodal Ninja 5 panoramic head.

There are some issues both on shooting (the sun has moved and also the shadows on lower part) , also some issues on processing which will be addresed in future attempts.
A special workflow I used to be able to process it on a 1 GByte RAM PC.

http://dorin.europhoto.ro/dxn_pano/PtaVictoriei/pano.html

Hope you like it,

Dorin

Dorin Godja said:

Hi all, this pano I shoot with two lenses Canon 50mm and 18-55mm @18mm on Canon 350D, using Nodal Ninja 5 panoramic head.

There are some issues both on shooting (the sun has moved and also the shadows on lower part) , also some issues on processing which will be addresed in future attempts.
A special workflow I used to be able to process it on a 1 GByte RAM PC.

http://dorin.europhoto.ro/dxn_pano/PtaVictoriei/pano.html

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Dorin,

This is a good location for an interesting Panorama. Congrats on making a "street photography" urban record! In this giant picture, you have recorded ordinary simple moments that we might miss in any posed picture. There's the lady wiping her, nose, others on the cell phone, attending to an infant one selecting coins presumably for a telephone call. We have folk happy together, waiting for their partner to get of the phone or simply in their own world. I wish that you had gotten just a tad more detail in the posters at the Romanian Museum ? of Art.

I'd love to have some more on the challenges to this pano, and introduction to your work flow, stitching software and as well as the square.

Asher

I like the pano and its details. There is one large shop window, with all sorts of people reflected in it as they walk on their ways across from that building. The one I speak of has CCIT on or above it. Why would there be no reflection of you and your camera in that window? It looks as though you would have had to be directly in front of it to get that perspective. I am not familiar with how you make these types of panos but it does seem like you would be seen in that window.
James

Asher Kelman said:

Dorin,

This is a good location for an interesting Panorama. Congrats on making a "street photography" urban record! In this giant picture, you have recorded ordinary simple moments that we might miss in any posed picture. There's the lady wiping her, nose, others on the cell phone, attending to an infant one selecting coins presumably for a telephone call. We have folk happy together, waiting for their partner to get of the phone or simply in their own world. I wish that you had gotten just a tad more detail in the posters at the Romanian Museum ? of Art.

I'd love to have some more on the challenges to this pano, and introduction to your work flow, stitching software and as well as the square.

Asher

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Hi Asher, thanks for the kind words.

About the workflow, in this case some extra step or two were
introduced, the pano was "sliced" instead of producing a big equirectangular 360°x180° by 50,000 x 25,000 which is too much for my 1 GB RAM PC, there were produced ten equirectangular panos of 5,000x25,000, 36°x180° each at 36° yaw appart from its previous, with 500px overlapp (due to blending reasons) then the overlap was cuted and the slices were joint (not stitched!) into the big pano which was after that sub-tilled into small pieces to make the retouch at equirectangular level possible then from the tiles back to big equirectangular then converted into 6 cubic faces which were also sub-tiled for retouching at cubic faces level (nadir, so on) then back to big cubic faces then to multires tilled levels for publishing with krpano.

About strret photography, yes some care I took to make the middle belt as a sum of several (nearly 20) moments, some of them you kindly spoted. About the lady with the coin, in fact the scene is in front of the lottery shop so we can guess that we see the husband putting back the wallet, the lady scraching full of hope the ticket and, in the time arrow direction, the public trash bin nearby.

the square is the famous also due to the Romanian Revolution which started here back in 1989
other panos I took there
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=sigma2
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=night2
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=victoriei
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=victoriei2
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=victoriei3
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=trenulet
http://www.dxn.ro/dxn_pano.html?pano=porumbei


the distant white building is the National Opera House Timisoara
http://www.ort.ro/english1/index.asp


cheers,

Dorin

James Newman said:

I like the pano and its details. There is one large shop window, with all sorts of people reflected in it as they walk on their ways across from that building. The one I speak of has CCIT on or above it. Why would there be no reflection of you and your camera in that window? It looks as though you would have had to be directly in front of it to get that perspective. I am not familiar with how you make these types of panos but it does seem like you would be seen in that window.
James

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Hi James, when the photographer and its setup might be reflected in glossy or mirror surfaces, he has several chooices and deppendeing of the chooice both the shoot and process is proceded accordingly. Lets take a look at those

The chooices:
1. no care at all in the resulted pano one or multiple reflection even blended together might be seen. this chooice (or better said no chooice at all) mostly is the case of newbies
2. photographer want that this as a kind of self portrait so he take care to have a good loking shot of reflected him which to be feeded or punched later in the panorama
3. he want to be invisible, so he take extra shoots one at the left side of of the tripod then at the right side of the tripod then merge those shoots and in the resulted one he must make the tripod invisible as well at post process
4. he want to be invisible and also the area to reflect faithful the scene in the opposite direction.
in static panorama besides the method used at point 3 he also can move a bit the tripod and using parallax (apparent moving of the near objects-tripod + camera over the distant background ) to make the setup invissible.
in dynamic panorama (i.e. moving people/objects) he will use in post process the shots from opposite direction mirrored and placed over that area to achieve that


In this dynamic pano I choose the number 4.

cheers,

Dorin