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I shot these in October 2008 while on a "Eurotrip" through Belgium, England and Wales. Most of the time I was with family so I didn't have the luxury of choosing the best time of day for shooting photographs. The best weather was in Wales, simultaneously raining and sunny, leading to a magical golden haze. I haven't finished those panos yet but I hope they will come out as wonderful as the view I saw while shooting!
Images are not bracketed unless otherwise stated.
1- Flying over the UK, approaching London from the South. Haze and airplane windows not designed for being photographer through caused trouble, but this is quite close to what I saw.
2- Belgium, view of Oostende.
3, 4, 5, 6- I went fishing with my brother before sunrise in a canal just outside Oostende. No fish in that spot whatsoever. Later on we moved much closer to the estuary and caught some fishies (no panos, but I do have some nice photos, if anyone is interested I will post).
5- I somehow overexposed this, I think I set the exposure and then fiddled with the panohead and during those several minutes the sun rose and caused the overexposure.
7, 8, 9- Sometime during or before sunset, but it was very cloudy.
10- The Oostende promenade, shot before 7-9 above. The machines on the beach seemed to be pumping more sand onto it.
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11-19- Brockwell Park in London.
11- I wanted to visit a village between two lakes surrounded by forests in Poland during this period when the leaves were at their most amazing colors. By the time I got back most of the leaves had fallen and those that remained turned dull, but at least I was rewarded for this in Brockwell Park, that tree was spectacular :]
14- Same as 13, but over 400° . Which do you prefer, 13 or 14?
15- Inversed miniplanet made from 13
16,17- Other side of the park. 17 was shot standing in the shade of the tree from 16.
18,19- Both were bracketed -2/0/+2EV, enfused after stitching. The two trees in 18 are visible left off-center in 19 on the other side of the path.
After shooting I had some good Jamaican food with my brother in a tiny Jamaican restaurant, was yummy!
More soon :]
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3 or 4- I prefer the 4 because of the nicer look at of right building. Windows are better there in the 4. BTW : please post the fishes !
7- purple colored sunset. Wonderful.
11- The tree ! man, the tree. I don't think you have the right to paint them ...
15- Interesting view. Reminds me an old video game called vipeout
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Great shots, DrSlony! The 11 is really amazing... I like very much the mini-planet.
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Superb capture !
fabulous lighting and warm colours.
11 & 18 are my favourites.
Best regards
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Hello Dr Slony,
Above all, I prefer :
The second one (Ostende)
The 11th one (countryside with the the yellow tree in Poland).
Very artistic work.
"Ma"
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It is very difficult to make a choice in this very beautiful set of picture… Very difficult indeed
I love this one 
http://www.autopano.net/forum/postgalle … 000820.jpg
Last edited by beeloba (2008-12-21 22:14:59)
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The tree shot seems to be everyone's favorite, mine too 
I already had a person order it on canvas, 90x60cm, it looked amazing!
I had some problems with the forum while uploading, thats why I had to break up the photos into 2 posts, but even then i now see its some photos. Here is the continuation:
20- Westminster Palace, central London. I forgot to shoot the top row 
My brother said that it seems to focus on the white stripe on the road, he said there was no other photo like that, so I focus blurred it to emphasize, pure amusement :]
21- Westminster Palace, central London. Original.
22- Westminster square. The point here was to show that the inscription on the board is identical to the view, I never saw a photo showing this so I thought it would be interesting and amusing :]
23- Westminster Palace from the Northern side of the Thames. I think this looks quite postcard-like.
24- London Eye, I find it boring.
25- London Eye again, a lot (most?) of the steel cables were badly stitched so I had to fix them in post-processing. There also was a problem with the fact that although I wasn't very close, it was so tall. I couldn't go further away due to trees, and rotating it +90° didn't help, so I rendered as equirectangular and did some stretching to make the circle look like a circle.
26- Thames, St. Paul's Cathedral showing up over the horizon, also looks quite postcardy.
27- My tripod fell apart while shooting 27, so this was hand-held, it was shot after 27.
28- This is where my tripod fell apart (a leg slid completely out, I managed to put it back in when I got home but it fell out again in Wales. Adrenaline shot). It looks a bit 'dramatic' to me, I like it. Do you think I should keep the bird at the bottom?
All comments very welcome and much wanted :]
More to come!
Last edited by DrSlony (2008-12-21 23:29:29)
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Trekker317 wrote:
The 11th one (countryside with the the yellow tree in Poland).
This was also shot in Brockwell Park in London, no shots from Poland in this thread. I'm waiting for the snow since I missed the lovely autumn :]
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thanks
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Did you enjoy them? Were they good? Did they suck? Anything you'd change? I need feedback so I can apply it to future panos, e.g. the ones from Wales!
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Nice piks of Brockwell park, it was and still is one of my most favourite parks since childhood.
Gordon
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Finally have time to finish my Wales panos, so here goes (comments most welcome!):
31- Up on this hill the winds were so strong that my heavy tripod was blown over, had to shoot at ISO400, no chance of bracketing. By the time I shot 360° around and got back to 0°, the clouds were already about 50° off, so I was quite happy that APP did such a good job of blending the clouds. I had to move them manually into place though.
32- [here] Llwybr Treftadaeth Cefn Mawr A'r Ardal (Cefn Mawr & District Heritage Trail), people live in these boats and make a living by carrying tourists across the viaduct (extends left behind the house).
33- [here] Near Llandudno, shot handheld in under a minute as I was with family and every single place we visited I kept holding them up. Have I mentioned before how beautiful Wales is? Well it is.
Last edited by DrSlony (2009-04-09 11:38:44)
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I like the way you are seing things : it's not far from mine and Trekker's one. There's always an "artistic touch" and I appreciate this "little touch" which is YOUR touch.
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DrSlony;
I love the lighting in #11.
Can you explain your technique? All in post processing? Neutral Grad filter?
Exceptional job.
Kendall
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Ma I'm glad you like it
kzaugg thank you Its a mixture of postprocessing and a circular polarizer. The polarizer can sometimes ruin a pano, but if you postprocess correctly it can make it more interesting, as with pano 11. It will make the sky at 90° and 270° from the sun much darker, and if you center the pano on the sun, you will get the nice wave (reminds me of swan wings) once you take care of the zenith being lighter.
34 - Same place as 31, on top of the hill.
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Brockwell Park mini planet, made to look good and free for use as desktop wallpaper (1680x1050).
If you need a different resolution, ask!
Pixel sharpness makes all the difference, and resizing the low-res version wouldn't satisfy me :]
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I love colours and hues
I would have cropped my favourite like this
No offense
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Thanks DrSlony, this has now replaced the Tulips 
as I said before this is one of my fav parks....
Best
Gordon
Last edited by Gordon (2009-08-31 12:58:57)
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DrSlony wrote:
1- Flying over the UK, approaching London from the South. Haze and airplane windows not designed for being photographer through caused trouble, but this is quite close to what I saw.
Hi Maciek!
I like the first one best. Great mood - "english light".
Wonderful composition of iluminated cottages in the landscape.
best, Klaus
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