Royal Ontario Museum

100% Crop

64 Frames shot with the 350D using 15mm FE f/2.8 @100 ISO, f/3.5, 1/800

Sec, stitched to a 87 MP rectangular projected frame resulting in a 2mm

lens perspective, covering around 160 x 160 Deg. All comments and critiques are welcomed.

 

PS Don't forget to see the 100% crop attached!

 

Regards

Great work Hayder, Really amazing... I am really thrilled after watching this...! This show how hard you worked while composing and stitching. 6/7

Your talent is so imressive.. Amazing image with stunning colors and light... Your creativity is so damn good.. The post process work is of highest class once again... Great work my friend...

 

All my best, Jill

Super image ,wery well seen ....great work .7/7

Hayder- I like the effect of your fisheye. It really makes this scene look like a rendering of a future world. The sky even cooperated. Nice job and best wishes.-Jim

Very impressive scenery and final pp result. Compliments, El

Fantastic work, Heider. Very well done. Max anon and best regards.

Hader...You have crated a splendid futuristic scene...Extroadinary work...Max...My best...Marjorie

Dude, did your computer survive the merge? :)

That's a really cool shot. The light is very nice. The distortion is a bit too intense IMO, but it also adds a little drama.

Dear Younes , Thank you soo much for your kind comment, this took 4hrs to stitch on a Core2 Duo T7200@2.00GHz ! I know what i am doing is bit stupid :)

 

You are right about the distortion ! Well, in addition i think the left part of the photo lost its details and looks pixellated, ! I should have used 35mm lens or more to eliminate this problem, but it would cost more time shooting and processing! Thank you very much for your kind comment. Regards.

One of the most impressive photographic work I ever saw.

And the architect is good too ;)

7/7

Heider, I like very much the result you obtained that is very suggestive and original (in the very sense of the word: I never seen something like this) but I must admit my ignorance: I haven't understood the techniques you have used and I cannot understand how you can say that the result is equivalent to a 2mm lens.

 

And regarding the attachment, from an aesthetic POV the "100% crop" is even better, but in this case too, I do not understand what "100% crop" means.

 

Thank-you very much, should you want to give some explanation.

 

Mauro

Dear Mauro,

 

Thank you so much for your encouragement and support, its very kind of you.

 

My writing skills are not very good! I will do my best to make this informative

 

This panorama is made with panoramic stitching software named PTGui ( www.ptgui.com ). All you need is a tripod, your camera, the software, and sometime !

 

The software is able to stitch many frames into a big panorama then projecting the result in many different ways.

 

Here i mounted the Canon 350D with 15mm FE lens on a tripod, then shot 64 frames; 4 rotations with 16 frames per rotation. Each rotation represent a full 360 view. and at the end of each horizontal rotation i shifted the camera vertically upwards to cover the upper view which was not covered by the first rotation.

 

Then using PTGui, I loaded all the frames, and let PTGui stitches them, you can choose between different projection methods ( Spherical, Cylindrical, Rectangular, Full frame, Mercator , and even 36x360 and little planet projections). After that you have to let the software run for some really good time ( depending on the size of your original single frames, the number of frames you have, the final panorama size, and for sure the pc processing power), I have generated with PTGui an image of 250 MP resolution.

 

the result can be saved into many formats (JPG, PSD, HDRI, etc) you can even generate HDRI panoramas with PTGui

 

Now, the resulting photo here is equivalent to 2mm lens shot, the idea is simple, if you stitch 2 frames each shot with 50mm then the result must be something wider than 50mm ( maybe 35 ) if you shoot 3 with the same 50mm lebs then you will get even a wider angle ( maybe 25) and so one, a 360 x360 panorama is practically a Zero mm lens.

 

I suggest you visit the PtGui gallery and website to find out more.

 

( http://www.ptgui.com/gallery )

 

If you need any further explanation, please don't histate to ask, as i will happily

reply asap. I hope this is useful.

 

Again thank you for your interest and comment!

 

Regards.

Hayder, congratulations , you have done an excellent work, it is just great, good for you and thanks for sharing, best regards // Salvador

Very impressive. Excellent work Heider! Kind regards.

Hayder, fantastic creative work. Looks like a futuristic design of a skyscraper.Many thanks for sharing this link.

Una imagen sensacional,con unos tonos y procesado fantasticos.Me gusta como todo se precipita sobre el centro de la imagen.Es un trabajo de calidad y muy original.

Un saludo y max.

Creative and impressive work, Hayder. Well done, my friend. Regards, Lawrence.

Awesome work..congrats. on a great job...Regards

Interesting creation!

Max.Regards! CL

Hayder thanks for sharing the making with us. Super picture but would love to see some other stuff as well. Regards Carl

I must admit, the ROM never quite looked like that while I lived in Toronto :-).

Pretty fascinating what you accomplished with a bit of help from ptgui.. It's very well done!

I would hang this on my wall. Very well done!