This is the result, so far, of an experiment I've been playing with. The image is composed of 10 segments, each with different sun elevations and headings representing the sun rising over the same landscape from left to right. The whole idea turned out better than I anticipated it would. What do ya'll think?
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Cool idea, and really beautiful result!
- Oshyan
Looks great :)
Thanks guys :)
Looks nice!
I really like the atmosphere's colors. Just a tad more light in the hills would be better maybe.
great idea and result!
:)
Love it! Rays are TG also?
Thanks everybody! Otakar, sadly the rays are photoshopped in, I tried getting them naturally in Terragen, but the render times went through the roof so I abandoned them. This next one has better lighting on the hills, especially the foreground. I want to add some clouds, but getting them to look good in all the different lighting situations is a bit challenging is going to require a fair amount of test renders.
nice atmo indeed and very good idea
The sun striking the tree tops looks much better.
After a lot of fiddling I've finally found some clouds that look good through all ten segments of the image. I might have overdone the lense flare in photoshop a bit and will probably end up toning it down. I want to add some fog in the valley to capture more light in the scene since the bottom half is much darker than the sky, just to lessen the contrast some.
Edit: For some reason the image quality is a lot lower for the uploaded file than what I'm seeing in my picture viewer. Weird.
Great image :)
agree with Kadri, looks really good!
:)
Hi,
Like your experimenting here! I tried something similar with an SLR camera and pano rig. Its quite difficult. I like the results your getting better :)
It could make things easier on you if you do not go for such a literal interpretation of the light. That is, maybe a little more fantasy on this one than (light) reality; Use a moon or something to lighten up the darks (or whatever) to get a smoother blend between stitches.
How many shots in the pano?
You may find this EXTREMELY useful: http://www.kolor.com/panorama-software-autopano-pro.html I know I do, its the best. Just in case you don't know about it, this software can smooth out those differences for you nearly automatically, nearly perfectly.
I use ICE (free) TheBadger :
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
I don't have much of this kind of work so it is sufficient for me.
I didn't used your program. Did you use ICE ?
Your program looks more advanced . Just curious.
Clouds look great. Maybe add a bird in the sky?
Thanks everybody :) This version is probably the final for now. I'll come back to this eventually, but during the course of playing with this one I found a nice POV for a boring old sunset so I'm going to take advantage of that before I forget.
http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/#/d4x2w0l
I think the dark/shadowed side ended up a bit too dark in the final (some application of tone mapping may have helped), but it's still a great image and well executed concept. You may be interested in this real-life extension of a similar concept:
http://www.greeksky.gr/files/photos/tips/20101230Sounio24Tutorial.htm
- Oshyan
Quote from: Kadri on April 20, 2012, 06:17:49 AM
I use ICE (free) TheBadger :
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ice/
I don't have much of this kind of work so it is sufficient for me.
I didn't used your program. Did you use ICE ?
Your program looks more advanced . Just curious.
Hi Kadri,
I couldn't download Ice, windows only.
But it did not look like it could do much more than basic stiching. If its better than it looks you would have to tell me.
For an example of autopano you must check this out http://www.paris-26-gigapixels.com/index-en.html :o :o :o
This is a (354159x75570) pano using 2346 single photos of Paris.
click on the images of famous land marks and it will zoom in. give it a min to fully load.
I think you will see that if you have the patience to do the rendering, this software goes great with TG2.
Also there is this http://blog.paris-26-gigapixels.com/en/
Thanks TheBadger :)