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| Attempting 360 x 180º Panoramas, Normal Panoramas and Startrails with 16mm fisheye on D3 | Rate Topic |
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| Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2017 04:57 |
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Robert
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In my panoramas of the Duddon Estuary one peak sticks out in the landscape as distinct from it's neighbours. Stickle Pike, it's visible from many places and seems to catch my eye whenever I look that way. Yesterday I intended to visit it with Christopher, just for a shufti, unfortunately time ran out but today I'm planning to go see what it looks like close up. This is a panorama taken with my iPhone of the stainless steel viewpoint elevation of the fells to the North of the Duddon Estuary. Stickle Pike is roughly North from that point, depending on which North you use! 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 9th, 2017 10:54 |
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Robert
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Well, I made it, a rather soggy D3 on my desk to prove it. Have found a wonderful location for star trails and mountain scenery. Not too far from home, should be reasonable low light pollution, although Sellafield isn't that far away... The downside is it's very close to Seathwait, reputedly the wettest place in England with 3552mm to rainfall a year and 314.4mm in a single 24 Hr period. Compared with King's Lynn @ 382.6 mm per year average (https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/uk/kings-lynn/climate). Alicante 49.3 mm per year, according to the same source... I have made some exposures and one set of 360º panorama images to experiment with. It was raining persistently by that time so I just went for it, nothing spectacular but something to play with. One has to start somewhere!  Photo's to follow.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 04:10 |
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Robert
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I have created a spherical panorama from the viewpoint, not quite perfect, I need to get used to the coverage of the 16mm fisheye. I took six exposures which included the bottoms of the tripod legs, I also took two exposures to cover the zenith and two to cover the nadir (The bottom of the image where the tripod was). In fact my six radial exposures almost covered the zenith only leaving a small hole. Unfortunately PTGui didn't know what to do with the two images I took of the zenith and inserted them about the middle left, completely in the wrong place. The two I took for the nadir were perfectly inserted. I am wondering if I have to take the images in a particular order. In the tutorials I have seen the photographer takes the radial exposures first then the zenith and finally after removing the tripod takes the nadir exposure. I am thinking I may only need three radial exposures and one nadir if I tilt the camera very slightly higher, I am using landscape mode. Alternatively If I use portrait mode and take six radials and one nadir with the tripod removed that will fix the zenith without tilting the camera up too far. More experimenting required. I am working on the techniques for creating the spherical panorama, then I have to understand how to save the image to export it for further use like making it viewable here or on 360Cities.net. All new and complicated stuff! In the meantime here is the view I was greeted with when I arrived... D3, Nikkor 24-120 f4.0 @ 38mm, 1/250sec at f5.6, ISO 320 Whoops! Just noticed the dust bunnies... 
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 04:15 |
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Eric
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It's raining in Kings Lynn today.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 04:30 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:It's raining in Kings Lynn today. Make the most of it. No rain here, YET! Off out to experiment...
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10th, 2017 15:18 |
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Robert
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Today I climbed Stickle Pike, not quite as momentous as Everest but was a very pleasant afternoon. This is a photo of the actual peak from fairly close up. D3 Nikkor, 70-300 f4.5-5.6 @ 300mm, 1/1000sec at f6.3, ISO400  I have taken countless sets of 360º panorama images, I made well over 500 exposures today. I spent over three hours to the top of Stickle Pike and Stickle Tarn which is just below the summit, to the right as you see it in the above image. I'm too tired to tackle the Pano sets now but I have processed some of the pix I made on the way home. The light wasn't perfect, it was fading fast. I spotted some of these yesterday but it was raining hard and the light was non existent. Here are some of them, all taken in the Duddon valley, Dunnerdale. D3, 24-120mm f4 @ 44mm, 1/125sec at f7.1 ISO 250  This is a departure from my usual process, the lighting was difficult. I used the HDR feature of Lightroom, I took several sets of 5 exposures, varying the exposure compensation and the steps. This is the result of one of the sets. The trees stood out despite the failing light, the problem was trying to lift the dark shaded areas of the image without making the brighter areas too bright. D3, 24-120mm f4 @ 52mm, nominally: 1/200sec at f7.1 ISO 250  The other was a bit more of a challenge but I got this. D3, 24-120mm f4 @ 78mm, nominally: 1/125sec at f6.3 ISO 500  Now for the Pano's...
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11th, 2017 04:53 |
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Eric
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Robert wrote: Some lovely scenes there Robert. This last one would also look good in IR.....with some more sun and broken clouds 
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11th, 2017 06:40 |
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Robert
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Eric wrote:Some lovely scenes there Robert. This last one would also look good in IR.....with some more sun and broken clouds Thank you Eric, this is a spectacular corner of the Lake District which seems very quiet. I didn't see a single soul after I left the car to climb Stickle Pike, I was up there for over four hours, really peaceful. I already have it mentally bookmarked for next year... Or would it be OK on a sunny day, even with the leaves turning? I plan to revisit when the leaves have become golden but one slight issue is that it's taken from the North East in a fairly deep valley, I thought a very early, dawn visit in mid summer might get the best light... This location isn't much more than half an hour from home so it's easy to pop up if the light looks right.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11th, 2017 07:22 |
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jk
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Great set of images Robert. The last one will work well in IR as Eric says. The 2nd and 3rd in the four image set are very nice. Add some warmth and light to the bracken and it will really lift the image.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 11th, 2017 11:04 |
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Robert
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Thanks JK, my main concern with the third and forth images was to preserve the glow from the trees, which was what attracted me to the scene in the first place. The third and forth images are both HDR in order to try to preserve the lights and yet boost the darks without resorting to trickery and pushing the boundaries (I guess HDR is a trickery of sorts!!!). Really just trying to preserve the natural feel of the image. I take your point about the bracken but in reality it is pretty bleached, much more so than the picture suggests. I agree boosting it a little more would probably bring more life to the overall image. The third image I took 89 mainly bracketed exposures and only one set of five exposures came close to getting something near what I saw. Will revisit the processing, I know there is more to be had from those NEF's. I haven't even applied graduated controls yet and that's what the bracken needs. The second image, the bent tree, I think it's an Oak, really screams the direction of the prevailing wind and the power of nature. It's one of the nicest examples of the phenomenon I have seen. There are still more potential subjects along that road, the three sites I stopped at were all within a one mile stretch. I have included a screenshot of the Lightroom Map showing the locations of the photos, I haven't processed some water flow shots I took of the river Duddon, I wasn't particularly happy with them. I bet it's a lot more spectacular today! I have encircled the roadside locations, the others upper right are the Stickle Pike locations. Attachment: Ulpha Photos.jpg (Downloaded 27 times)
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