Liberation of Corsica

[Paddy2a]

Hi,
This weekend we had over 200 vintage WWII military vehicules come over to Corsica to commemorate the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Corsica.
(First department in France).

Here's a couple of panos and sorry about a couple not being horizontal. (will fix that).
http://www.360corsica.com/panoramas/a-bandera/a-bandera.html

Regards,

Paddy

[myriamax]

encore encore....
tres beau travail j adore tes panos!!!:p
Great work mate!

[Paddy2a]

Thanks for the feedback Myriamax.
I much prefer doing panos with people in them, as I noticed that you do too.
They are difficult subjects but so much fun to do.

Here’s another one with many people in them but I don’t like it as much.
http://www.360corsica.com/panoramas/montegrosso-foire-olivier/montegrosso-foire-olivier.html
http://tinyurl.com/6lhabw

Your “Festival au bout du Monde” rocks and are well over mine.
http://www.myriamax.com/Fr/BDM/index.php

Regards,

Paddy

[birdseye]

Hey paddy,

Great work!
I do like the other pano's too and especially your style.

Just one question... may I ask what camera and lens you're using? You're pano's are extremely sharp.
I'm using a D80 with Nikon 10,5 but my pano's aren't as sharp as yours.

Greetz,

yvan.
www.birdseye.be/blog

[Paddy2a]

Hi Yvan,

Sure, setup is a Canon 5D with a "shaved" Nikkor 10.5mm.

For the final equi tiff, I use the smart sharpen or unsharp mask at 100% radius 0.3pix in PS and that's about it.

Regards,

Paddy

[birdseye]

Thank you Paddy ;)

[carel]

Paddy, that is a great series of portraits. Dont sharpen the whole image though. It makes everything shimmer very annoyingly when the pano moves. It is better to do the sharpening on a separate layer and then brush in the sharpening only where it matters. For instance the faces and hands, parts of the uniform, some distant objects that need some more attention. This will also greatly reduce the file-size of the pano. If the whole pano is sharpened, there is so much detail that compressed jpg files still remain much larger.

Carel Struycken
www.sphericalpanoramas.com

[Valery]

un petit morceau de France,
Thank you !

[Paddy2a]

Carel, thanks for the tip about layering the sharpening, never thought of that before.
I will certainly use it for a number of subjects in the future.
However, the first thing that people (clients...not photographers) seem to look at is if the image is sharp or not (and everywhere !). It seems to be retained as a principal criteria of quality by them….so I sharpen everywhere. Sometimes I over do it…I know….but the first impression they say is wow….that photo is so net….how do you do it ?
The antiliasing and shimmer…well they hardly ever mention it….so lets keep the customers happy !.... I do really need to straighten these panos also.
Flash 10 and the 2.4 of FPP will also help for the shimmer.

The fact of optimizing the jpgs is extremely interesting and I will do that for skies, lawns…etc.

Thanks for the tip Carel….looking at your work was also one of my motivations to get into panos.

Regards,

Paddy

[Widdi]

Great stuff!

Could you tell me what you use for sound capture?

Cheers

John