Driving my old Volvo (360� panorama)

[Dogcow]

I was enjoying a drive in the countryside in my old Amazon and thought that this would be a nice way to share it with you.



click the picture to enter the interactive panorama.

Drag inside the panorama to look around,
Shift = zoom in
Ctrl = zoom out

(I nearly finished the panorama tutorial, next step is to translate in into English...)

[stevednp3]

[Julia]

[Ian]

[Dogcow]

[catkins]

[Dogcow]

[catkins]

Thanks Chris,
If you refer to the visible joint above the rear window: yeah, that puzzled me too.

Strangely no, I was referring to the join running vertically from your forearm up through the side window - this I assume could be due to it being the start point/finish point of your panorama which has then had detail change (in the fields due to movement of the car?) that has confused the software.
The very slight change in tone above the rear window is possibly due to the wide range of light levels between car interior and exterior which is possibly accentuated by the rear window being fairly small but with a lot of light, compared with the other windows.

When I beta tested the GigaPan Stitcher software we had two similar issues - one beta version didn't like joining the beginning and the end of the panorama together in my Hexham Abbey interior shot because at the start the area was shaded and 20 minutes later by the end of the panorama the sun had come out - so the software didn't believe that the two areas were related!
Another version also had an light balance issue where it got the blending slightly wrong - this was especially apparent if AEL lock had not been applied and was very obvious in clear blue sky areas. The later betas sorted out most of these issues and the production release was way better.

What interests me is what panoramic head you are using - have you doctored the speedometer? Because if you were moving then it looks like the panorama was taken very quickly to minimise the background that should have passed by if it was using a standard panorama head.
As said, this is a very clever shot and is well executed in the balancing of interior and exterior light and in the stitching which is always difficult if there is a wide variation between foreground and background, which in this case there is.

Regards
Chris

[Dogcow]

[catkins]

Arghh, you caught me there with that stitching error. I completely missed that one. Should have edited that one out.
I will put up a corrected version tomorrow.

No I did not doctor the speedo. (it is km/h, mind you, not mph )

The E-5 was mounted on a Nodal Ninja 5 on a tripod, with two legs on the front seats, so it was a bit wobbly, which caused some stitching errors.

The fact that the scenery looks all right is because I managed to time the shots the right way. That is something I try to train myself in and with the right timing and a bit of luck it turns out right.

The reason the balance of the light difference is OK is that I stitched the panorama to a 16 bit TIFF. That gives ample room for balancing te levels afterwards.

Well all I can say is . . . Respect!

Regards
Chris

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[StephenL]

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