My first vertical pano

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My first vertical pano

Postby RocketMan » Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:56 am

A tower from the Tucker County Courthouse in Parsons WV. Built in1898

Here is the finished photo
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and these are the two photos I used

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How I did it using photoshop

First I took img_0013 and rotated it 90 on its side (to give me more viewing area) then extended the canvas by twice on the horizontal using the bottom of the tower as a base, so I could paste the top image into the first. Then I created a new layer and pasted the second image, of the top portion of the tower to the left of the first picture and aligned them at their overlap point. Since it was shot with slightly different camera settings due to the brighter background and because it was shot with more perspective than the lower shot since I zoomed in on it, I needed to be able to adjust the second photo separately hence the need for it to be on a separate layer.
Once pasted in and aligned, I used the perspective tool in photoshop to bring it more in line with the lower section, i.e. tilt the top of the building in toward the viewer. Then I played with color, lighting and contrast settings to blend the color balance and tone of two shots to be as similar as possible, note that the lighter brick toward the top of the tower was in fact lighter in the building itself. Then I used the healing tool to get rid of the power lines.
Since the sky in the upper photo was rather bland I created another layer which I placed under the two other layers and brought in a picture of some nice clouds. Then I used the magic wand to create a selection of the dull sky areas in the top photo and cut those out, allowing the bottom photo of the clouds to show thru. By setting the top two layers to 100% opaque the clouds only show where I cut the old sky out.
I printed it on a 12 x 39 sheet, looks pretty cool if I do say so myself. I’m going to hang in on my office door at work.

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby repo » Wed Aug 05, 2009 8:38 am

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby R4R&R » Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:55 pm

I'd love to learn how to use photoshop to do this picture magic, but I get lost in the program as soon as it opens up.

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby Yellowjacket » Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:19 pm

Since there is no emoticon that shows my tongue dropping all the way toteh floor I will say.

WOW. AMAZING!!!
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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby Rick F. » Fri Aug 07, 2009 9:03 pm

RM,

Cool! But what will you think of next? An upper-left to lower-right panoramic photo? An inside-out pano?? A normal-color to inverse-color pano??!

I expect to be further impressed and awed in the future... Image

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby Unity » Sat Aug 08, 2009 3:10 pm

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby JimVonBaden » Sun May 27, 2012 5:29 pm

Thanks for the print Jeff. We finally got it framed an hung.

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We hated to do it, but since a custom frame was almost $400, we trimmed it a bit to fit a standard frame. Had it been printed 10% smaller we might have a perfect fit.

Thanks though, because it is an awesome photo, and looks great in the house!

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby RocketMan » Mon May 28, 2012 2:53 pm

Tanks!

I'd be happy to print out another one a tad smaller if you just provide the dimensions once I order some more ink, got lots of roll paper left and I even did a bit more editing on it so the vertical lines of the brickwork where the two parts meet is a better match and there is no more slight step in the joint.

(no, Not That kind of joint!)

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby JimVonBaden » Mon May 28, 2012 11:11 pm

RocketMan wrote:Tanks!

I'd be happy to print out another one a tad smaller if you just provide the dimensions once I order some more ink, got lots of roll paper left and I even did a bit more editing on it so the vertical lines of the brickwork where the two parts meet is a better match and there is no more slight step in the joint.

(no, Not That kind of joint!)

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Wow, that is very nice of you. Let me find out tomorrow what it is, and I will let you know.

Thanks!

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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby henwin » Mon Jun 04, 2012 11:11 pm

RocketMan wrote:A tower from the Tucker County Courthouse in Parsons WV. Built in1898

Here is the finished photo
Image
How I did it using photoshop

First I took img_0013 and rotated it 90 on its side (to give me more viewing area) then extended the canvas by twice on the horizontal using the bottom of the tower as a base, so I could paste the top image into the first. Then I created a new layer and pasted the second image, of the top portion of the tower to the left of the first picture and aligned them at their overlap point. RM

Quite nice.

What version of PS are you working with. Photoshop can do this all automatically now (in CS5 and higher). I use Lightroom as my "preprocessor" and get the images balanced, then there's the "Photo/Edit In/Merge to Panorama in Photoshop" command in LR to open the images in PS, and the first thing that comes up is the Photomerge command box which tells PS how to merge the images. I usually start with "auto" to see how well PS will do. Usually it does just fine...sometimes it requires some additional "monkeying around". it usually doesn't take more than 1-3 minutes for PS to do the whole job!

I have several very large panos...one of Jerusalem--which is about 15" tall and 8 1/2 FEET long. If I had printed it to the max width my printer will do--about 16.5"--it probably would be in the range of 9-9.5 feet long. I also have one that is of a caldera in New Mexico, north and a bit west of ABQ and SW of Santa Fe. I have others, too. I have one that I haven't processed yet--but I shot it at the wedding of some friends... I love doing panos. =D> Wouldn't it be interesting to get the photographers in BMWBMW together to have a show and tell?!
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Re: My first vertical pano

Postby RocketMan » Sat Jun 09, 2012 3:14 pm

I used photoshop elements 7 but i do most of my work in Linux now using Gimp, LightZone and some RAW editing tools such as Hugin, UFraw, and Raw Therapy with a lot of scripting for basic processing.

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