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Darkphibre
Photographer / Programmer / Data Scientist / GamerRegistered User regular
Photographer / Programmer / Data Scientist / GamerRegistered User regular
I took way more panoramas than the last two years, so it took me a lot of late nights and early mornings to pull these together. I rushed a few, so they aren't all pristine quality... but at least they are up.
You can see them here.
Some highlights:
Everyone holding up their "lights" during Friday's concert:
The everpresent Pocky!
BYOC room
Lots and lots of crowds...
This year is also the debut of panorama viewers! I had to write a little program (involving icky radians, degrees, fields-of-view and other mathematical constructs) to pull it all together. I've found two different viewers on the internet, and have scripted them to wait for your every command. Of course, Java being what it is, you will likely run into memory problems on the larger MP images. I'm not too happy with the results (not quite immersive enough)... Next year I will be prepared with a much better solution.
My best 300 photos are on flickr, and the other 1700 photos here. I even caught Tycho "resting the guitar gently into velvet-lined case."
Note: The mother of all panoramas, consisting of 100 images of the Friday line, has not yet been put together. I'm trying, but 2GB of memory isn't enough; Photoshop keeps crashing. I'll update here when it's available.
Enjoy!
You can see them here.
Some highlights:
Everyone holding up their "lights" during Friday's concert:
The everpresent Pocky!
BYOC room
Lots and lots of crowds...
This year is also the debut of panorama viewers! I had to write a little program (involving icky radians, degrees, fields-of-view and other mathematical constructs) to pull it all together. I've found two different viewers on the internet, and have scripted them to wait for your every command. Of course, Java being what it is, you will likely run into memory problems on the larger MP images. I'm not too happy with the results (not quite immersive enough)... Next year I will be prepared with a much better solution.
My best 300 photos are on flickr, and the other 1700 photos here. I even caught Tycho "resting the guitar gently into velvet-lined case."
Note: The mother of all panoramas, consisting of 100 images of the Friday line, has not yet been put together. I'm trying, but 2GB of memory isn't enough; Photoshop keeps crashing. I'll update here when it's available.
Enjoy!
Gamertag: Darkphibre, or Me for Halo! darkphibre.com, flickr
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And especially for the ones with Khoo rocking out in GH2...
(wipes drool)
When you take the photos, you want some overlap, but not too much. Also, it's best if you have a tripod mounted camera that turns on an axis just below the lens.
Darkphibre's photos are amazing, so I'm sure he can correct and improve upon what I've said.
One Magic Camera!
DJBreslin got it right (and thanks for the praise). My trick is that I have some super-secret software that accounts for non-tripod panoramas (identifies the slight shift in positions and conteracts them). 8)
As far as taking them fast enough... the trick is to pan quickly, but stop and take a breath before pressing the shutter. Otherwise the pic will be blurry (I still forget this step). Also, I export the images that have cutup people in them as layered transparent photoshop files. I then manually adjust the transparencies so that the transitions occur in hard to spot places (like right on the edge of the person, rather than down their face).
Try to lock in the same exposure for all the photographs. This will prevent the images from varying in focal length and brightness.
Finally, use the airbrush tool to modify the transparency masks. This way you can blend different photos relatively seamlessly.
You know (most of
I've been working on that 100 photo pano (with a number of dupes/unused photos) all day long; it's been a real pain. I hooked my tablet back up, and that's helped a lot to get the blending somewhat nice.
My automatic software can't handle the images I took (walking flat translation), so I've been doing it all by hand in sections with Photoshop, but even that has been crashing. I finally switched to Gimpshop... man, what a nice product. But it can't handle files > 2GB, so I'm having to scale all my sections down 75%.
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But... it is finished! What may be the longest homography of a line of people. Wish I could take a bit more time to clean up the seams better. But 20+ hours on a panorama was a bit much, even for me.
At full size this would be around 80,000 pixels wide. Since even Gimp couldn't handle that, we have a 56,500 pxiel wide image.
This scaled-down panorama, printed at 300dpi, would stretch 15 feet long by 1 foot high. The 100% version is actually too big to view in IE6.
See if you can find yourself!
I actually walked the line twice. The first trip the pictures were quite good, as I was taking my time.
The second trip was a bit rushed, since the line was supposed to start any minute; the photos were occasionally a bit blurry.
I took the second-trip photos for the front and side of Meydenbauer to show the size of the crowd,
but went with the earlier-in-the-day photos of the back because the people were more charismatic.
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Also, it doesn't even matter, I look damn sexy as two people. I love the panoramas, you sir, are an arteeste.
It looks like you're having a serious conversation with your doppelganger behind that tree.
Yeah, well, I do entertain myself, as I am the lord and master of that tree.
Somebody please tell me I don't look that unfriendly in real life.
I'm the guy with his arms crossed with a blue/striped polo shirt on, in the sweeping panorama photo of the line.
I was standing behind you Darkphibre, I was the guy who said he really liked last years photo.
But... wow, man.
You really outdid yourself this year.
Thumbs up.
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
but i'm bound to fall
bound to fall for you
oh what can i do
1) When scrolling left to right through the pano while zoomed it, it's really creepy when you come across that rare person who is staring directly into the camera.
2) I stood in line in a physical place that's in the pano, but I'm not there. I'm guessing they tightened up the line a bit after your first picture taking pass, because I remember your second, hurried pass (which you didn't use for the back of the line). Alas, your pano makes it seem as though I don't exist.
Can anybody even see my post?
I got gobbled up too.
I think it's just because I'm standing behind a bunch of people who are about a foot taller than me, though, not that I was overlapped.
{Fondly remembers the PAXTrain}