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#1 2012-10-17 05:20:16

kirstyspoor
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Removing tripod with Autopano Giga

Hello,

Im new to making panotours and using autopano giga and panotour pro I took some images for a theatre using my canon 7d canon 8-15mm fisheye and NN5. I took 12images for each theatre and bracketed them so 36 images for each pano. Using the RD16 rotating 60deg and 6 for the floor and 6 for the roof. Im aware I probably didn't need to do this many for the roof but I wanted to make sure I had enough information that everything would stitch together ok. Which it does..

Im struggling to take the tripod out of my images. I have exported into photoshop and tried to clone out the tripod and join the details in the flooring. although now that I have done this and exported to look at the tripod I can seem to import it back into autopano giga to get my pano back to normal and to keep editing it? Im sure there must be an easier way to do this? Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thank you,

Kirsty

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#2 2012-10-17 11:44:58

gkaefer
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Re: Removing tripod with Autopano Giga

for next project: put a stone or similar under your center colum of your tripod. when pano is ready put the tripod away (if you have no ballhead so you can turn camera & panohead 90" to look to ground) and shoot the nadir image (make sure lens is in same height and the center of your image is directly pointed to the stone and camera/lens is centered above the stone). If needed shoot 2 or 3 images (to cover all previously tripod leg positions and to take into account your legs...)

in autopano 3.0.0 b2 you can create your pano by loading all images (inclusive the extra handheld shot nadir images.). to optimize the result, delete manually all CPs from the extra nadir shots to the normal pano images except for one nadir image (you can select one which fits most). Create extra CPs between the nadir extra shots. detect your pano... and if shades or similar artefacts remain, you can use the new mask tool to optimize...

if you're panotour pro user: import your finished pano (with unsolved nadir). export as cubefaces. edit the nadir cube face in external program.
in panotour pro you can export your krpano license. with this you can use the software package of www.krpano.com. here droplets are included which allow many many things... one of this is to create cubefaces but also to paste cubefaces back to get a rectangualr image...

in next panotour 2.x the import of cubefaces should be possible (hopefully!!!)

Liebe Gruesse,
Georg

PS: some links:
http://www.panoramas.dk/panorama/nadir/
el classico: http://www.kolor.com/forum/p49511-2009- … -49#p49511

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#3 2012-10-18 20:48:32

HansKeesom
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Re: Removing tripod with Autopano Giga

Kirsty,

Nodal Ninja Nadir adapter is all you need.


Regards,  Hans Keesom
I stitch and render for other photographers see http://tinyurl.com/brxvlhg for details

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#4 2012-10-24 04:32:23

kirstyspoor
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Re: Removing tripod with Autopano Giga

Great thanks for your help.

I didn't see the adapter before, looks quite simple.

Regards,

Kirsty

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#5 2012-10-24 13:45:35

klausesser
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Re: Removing tripod with Autopano Giga

kirstyspoor wrote:

Hello,

Im new to making panotours and using autopano giga and panotour pro I took some images for a theatre using my canon 7d canon 8-15mm fisheye and NN5. I took 12images for each theatre and bracketed them so 36 images for each pano. Using the RD16 rotating 60deg and 6 for the floor and 6 for the roof. Im aware I probably didn't need to do this many for the roof but I wanted to make sure I had enough information that everything would stitch together ok. Which it does..

Im struggling to take the tripod out of my images. I have exported into photoshop and tried to clone out the tripod and join the details in the flooring. although now that I have done this and exported to look at the tripod I can seem to import it back into autopano giga to get my pano back to normal and to keep editing it? Im sure there must be an easier way to do this? Does anyone have any advice for me?

Thank you,

Kirsty

Hii Kirsty!

Using the 7D @10mm you need 6+2 shots. Set the camera to -10° for the row of 6 and shoot a Zenith. By having the row @-10° you´ll get a very small Nadir-hole. Narrow the ripod-legs as far as possible.
Using that configuration you most likely only need to do little retouching for cölosing the Nadir-hole and making the tripod-legs invisible.

I do it in 90% of my panos. For example: http://www.360impressions.de/ArchivTausendf/

If you really need a Nadir shot use Geaorg´s suggestion. I also do it this way: i have my NPP-Adapter on a ballhead, tilt it to 90°, pull the tripod aside untill the center of the lens-axis looks straight to the marker/stone and pull the center-column of the tripod
up so that the center of the lens is in the same position as it was while shooting the rows. APG 3.0 B2 really makes the stitching of the Nadir easy . . . but in the end it´s muchmore effort than using the clone-stamp in Photoshop forclosing a small hole . . big_smile

best, Klaus

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