StealthZ From Australia, joined Feb 2005, 5434 posts, RR: 49 Reply 3, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 6 days 16 hours ago) and read 2641 times:
Quoting WestJetYQQ (Reply 1): I wouldn't mind hanging that in my living room If I could get it without his name in the middle
You can... just go to the website, click add to cart and enter credit details, really easy you send money he will send picture.
That's how commerce works!!
If your camera sends text messages, that could explain why your photos are rubbish!
Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8 Reply 4, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2551 times:
ATCT From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 2038 posts, RR: 40 Reply 5, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2528 times:
Not sure the phsyics of the whole she-bang, but when we went from a non-gryo stabilized camera to a gyro stabilized WESCAM, it made a world of difference. (then at the same time the other news chopper got a laser something or other that blew us out of the water)
ATCT
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BA757 From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2003, 2832 posts, RR: 16 Reply 6, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2524 times:
Quoting StealthZ (Reply 3): You can... just go to the website, click add to cart and enter credit details, really easy you send money he will send picture.
That's how commerce works!!
DavestanKSAN From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 1678 posts, RR: 15 Reply 8, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2503 times:
Very cool. Glad he did La Jolla too, very neat.
Dave
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Fumanchewd From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2493 times:
Forgive me for not knowing....why can't he just take a wide angle picture from a good vantage point? Why are the multiple pictures and stitching necessary? I could understand if it was a 360 or 180 degree panaroma.
Waterpolodan From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1649 posts, RR: 5 Reply 10, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2486 times:
Quoting Fumanchewd (Reply 9): Forgive me for not knowing....why can't he just take a wide angle picture from a good vantage point? Why are the multiple pictures and stitching necessary? I could understand if it was a 360 or 180 degree panaroma.
I'm also not sure, but probably because he can get a much higher resolution if he combines a bunch of individual photographs. That La Jolla picture series is great, I found the restaurant I went to last year when I visited!
Toast From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 11, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2484 times:
Beautiful pic, but it would be so much more beautiful without that gaping hole in Lower Manhattan... New York, please get your ass in gear, it's been long enough like that.
INNflight From Austria, joined Apr 2004, 3765 posts, RR: 62 Reply 12, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2474 times:
Quoting Fumanchewd (Reply 9): Forgive me for not knowing....why can't he just take a wide angle picture from a good vantage point? Why are the multiple pictures and stitching necessary? I could understand if it was a 360 or 180 degree panorama.
It's purely for the resolution of the final product. One of those panoramas on his site has a width of 30,000 pixels!!! So far, the best and most expensive sf DSLR camera (Canon 1DsmkII, 16 megapixels I think) produces original files of close to 4,000 pixels in width.
If you'd now imagine that he sells that photo to an ad agency who wants to put this one on a billboard next to an interstate, a 4,000 pixel photograph will simply not be good for use because it's too small. The quality is not there to have it printed that large, same goes for the details. If you have ten times the original size....there's a whole more of room to work with.
Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8 Reply 13, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 9 hours ago) and read 2468 times:
Quoting Fumanchewd (Reply 9): why can't he just take a wide angle picture from a good vantage point?
Here's an even better example of somebody stitching a pano rather than doing a single wide-angle shot-- and look at the quality that resulted. This time the total horizontal angle of view is only 50-60 degrees, so he easily could have done a single shot. (I posted this one before, and its 5 MB, so ...)
DavestanKSAN From United States of America, joined Sep 2005, 1678 posts, RR: 15 Reply 14, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2445 times:
Quoting INNflight (Reply 12): So far, the best and most expensive sf DSLR camera (Canon 1DsmkII, 16 megapixels I think) produces original files of close to 4,000 pixels in width.
Fumanchewd From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2430 times:
Quoting INNflight (Reply 12): If you'd now imagine that he sells that photo to an ad agency who wants to put this one on a billboard next to an interstate, a 4,000 pixel photograph will simply not be good for use because it's too small. The quality is not there to have it printed that large, same goes for the details. If you have ten times the original size....there's a whole more of room to work with.
Ok thanks. Makes sense, although I haven't noticed a lack of quality on other billboards.
Quoting Timz (Reply 13): Here's an even better example of somebody stitching a pano rather than doing a single wide-angle shot-- and look at the quality that resulted. This
Damn. I need to get a 1080 monitor. The buildings look very clear but the background looks grainy. I assume its my monitor. I guess that we are getting to the point that large print/billboards will soon look better than real life!
Timz From United States of America, joined Sep 1999, 6468 posts, RR: 8 Reply 17, posted (5 years 7 months 3 weeks 5 days 6 hours ago) and read 2411 times:
Quoting INNflight (Reply 12): an ad agency who wants to put this one on a billboard next to an interstate, a 4,000 pixel photograph will simply not be good for use
4000 pixels will be plenty for a billboard. A 40-meter billboard would be pretty big, wouldn't it? Would 1-cm pixels be too big, viewed from passing cars?
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