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Post by Stephen on Feb 18, 2013 15:45:10 GMT -5
 Medway View down river past the Old Dockyards at Chatham..Picture taken today to try the 14mm/45mm Olympus micro 4/3 zoom, three negs assembled in Microsoft's ICE program, it stitches them together very nicely, even with a 28mm wide angle equivalent source shot. They claim ICE can handle lots more images, and stack as well as stitch. Stephen. |
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Post by Stephen on Feb 18, 2013 16:07:33 GMT -5
 And the other direction at low tide, with the small river tugs moored up.... Rochester Cathedral in the distance afternoon haze. Stephen. |
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Post by Stephen on Feb 18, 2013 16:37:02 GMT -5
 And close up at 42mm....I like the Nipashore name on the smaller tug! Stephen. |
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Post by lloydy on Feb 20, 2013 18:42:08 GMT -5
I stitched a huge pano with Microsoft ICE a while back and I used 20 RAW images from a DSLR, and then forgot to resize it before I saved it - and wondered why my computer froze.  Coalbrookdale Church. by Mudplugga, on Flickr 100% print size would be 52 x 16 inches. Microsoft ICE is excellent, and free ! Those are lovely pictures Stephen, getting the composition right in your head before you shoot all the images isn't easy. |
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Post by truls on Apr 10, 2013 9:35:21 GMT -5
VERY Nice images, Stephen and lloydy.
I have never heard of ms ice, but I downloaded it just now. How do you take the "panorama" Pictures to stitch together?
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Post by Stephen on Apr 10, 2013 9:56:28 GMT -5
Just take a sequence of shots, say from left to right, allowing an overlap between shots. For perfection the exposure should be at the correct manual setting, to ensure a good match in the sky, but usually auto works, and Ice can handle differences in the sky, evening it out.
Some digital cameras, like the Olympus PM-1 and many others, have a system built in to help space the panoramic shots taken, but it is easy to do manually.
Use an equivalent of 28mm wide angle as a maximum, it helps the stitching process not to have to correct for distortion, and also keep the camera relatively level to maintain the horizon. Also if the shot includes people wandering by, take quickly, otherwise they are going to appear in shot several times!
Ice has different finishing techniques which can all be sampled within the program.
The Ice shots are far wider than any fixed lenses can achieve and cost a lot less than expensive super wide angles!
Don't forget if you assemble large shots the size of the file rockets upwards very quickly, especially if wide shots are stacked on top or below to produce maximum superwide shots.
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