The Haunted Mansion - (A Rare Panoramic View)

[Love4Villains]

thank you!! Love, love love this!!

 

[Jadyreen1282]

Thanks. Now I'm in Disney mode again.....

 

[Joshua_me]

Holy Hoo !

That's some *amazing* work !

Thank you so much for sharing....

 

[Jon84]

I am actually willing to learn the boring part on how you did this!!

 

[kcb1dizbksfan]

thank you!! Love, love love this!!

Thanks . . . I am not big at all on photoshopping my images and so what you see is what you get. This is exactly what I saw and that sense of realism is what I wanted to capture . . . no layering of separate images, no special effects.

 

[kcb1dizbksfan]

Holy Hoo !

That's some *amazing* work !

Thank you so much for sharing....

Thank-you and welcome back to the boards!

 

[kcb1dizbksfan]

I am actually willing to learn the boring part on how you did this!!

The robotic head and software was developed by NASA and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) for the Mars Rover and Odessey and was then commercialized.
You need to make various settings on the robotic head such as setting the field of view, ensuring a 30% overlap between images taken and the range of images you plan to take.
The camera has to be set on totally a manual mode (disable auto-focus, AWB to a manual setting (e.g. sun/clouds, etc.). Single shot and no burst mode. The tripod HAS TO BE LEVEL . . . the image will be corrupted even if the tripod is even slightly
off your results will be unpredictable. Pick your subject carefully. Any moving subjects will ghost and if you have too many moving images, "ghosting" of people or things that are moving could significantly take away from the beauty of your stitched image.
The robotic head will do the rest. Then you need to import the single high res images into a special software and stitched and that process is a nightmare . . . every time. Been taking panos for over 3 years now and I have never ever had a successful stitch out of the box. Orphan images are always left and you have to manually insert control points between adjacent images so that the software will recognize the relationship between the two images. The biggest offenders to the automated stitching process is the sky without clouds and water without waves . . . the software's algorithm doesn't know what to do with those situations . . . so you need to intentionally increase the horizontal range of whatever your subject is to over compensate for a large crop on the top and bottom of your combined stitched image because you know problems will ensue because of the number of orphan images in the sky and perhaps the water. The stitched image file size is huge at 24 mpls per image and you just combined 114+ images in an uncompressed RAW or TIFF file type. This file is then imported into Adobe Lightroom where you will need to crop the image and make some exposure adjustments to the final image. When post prod in LR is complete you then need to save the file again in a TIFF or JPG format and upload it onto the Gigapan website. Then you have the option to create a URL in HTML with Flash built into the file for exploring within the image. Then I share the image typically into Facebook or embed the HTML code into the website I am posting. The creative part of being in front of the camera is generally enjoyable, however, I can't stand the post prod of this process.

BTW . . . there is a rickety footbridge at Tom's Sawyers Island which is by design, however, there were obviously people walking over the footbridge where my tripod and camera were and so any movement will cause stitching errors.
Other than that there are no challenges! : - )

 

[disneydad78]

Wow that's for sharing!!