Photography Thailand Forum

[Khun Hans]

Dear Photo friends
I'm totally blown away by this web page: http://www.360cities.net And I will start doing exactly that.  
Having several questions and appreciate if any of the forum members has experience with it. Kindly check the link and see there the video under : How to make panoramas. This site offers the complete processing
of shots to a 'Virtual tour' pano.
It is possible to make my own pano 'Virtual Tour' in Autopano Giga which includes Autopano Tour for this reason.
Anybody knows whether one can post a pano like that one in a gallery i.e. pbase, Fred Miranda or here on our gallery.  
Let me also know ALL your experience with doing pano.
Thanks
Hans

[David Salmanowitz]

Hans--

I have been seeing these moving panoramas the last few years I think. I think they are kind of neat, but at least for me if the cursor and then image starts moving too quickly all over the place I think I am on an amusement park ride and get nauseous. Cool yes, giving a neat perspective yes--but would I rather see a gorgeous panorama print than playing with the image on a monitor--yes again.

Most of my panos I have done via Photoshop, I think it was with CS4? that it became so easy to do. Best on a tripod, shoot vertical, I take a partial pic of my hand so I know the next frame is where it starts, and when I am done shooting 10 or however many verticals I shoot a partial hand pic again. Then I go grab an espresso why Photoshop churns away and makes a huge file. BTW, I use Lightroom and I just access Photoshop via Edit in the toolbar, than I can save an image right next to the original in my Lightroom catalog. Hope this helps.

[Khun Hans]

Thanks, David.
For me it could be a new (additional) way of photography. I did pano's in the conventional way quite a bit, both in PS and AutuPano. I think I know how to shoot with and without gear using the nodal point etc.
Saw some gorgeous 'moving panos' with tons of gigabytes to zoom in without losing quality.   

[David Salmanowitz]

I have seen some of those huge gigabyte panos where one could zoom in--incredible detail, and from so far away. If I recall one could read a clock tower that in the "big" picture could not even be seen.

Just in case you feel like dropping some $ on some pano gear.       http://reallyrightstuff.com/Items.aspx?code=PANO&key=cat

This company makes superb quality stuff, not cheap but the last you will need to buy. No, I do not have any of their pano gear--but saw someone recently who did and it was gorgeous design and worked flawlessly.

[Khun Hans]

Thanks. Knowing the stuff (the really right) BTW, David, did you ever order from RRS or others from USA to Thailand?

[David Salmanowitz]

No, never have had RRS or others ship to Thailand. I have just gotten stuff when I was back for a visit in USA or had someone bring it over who was coming to Thailand. Shipping/insurance would be quite pricy, then there could well be duty to pay, ...