Teton Range - Massive Panorama

Posted by E.J. Peiker on Sun Jun 20, 2004 10:05 pm

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Teton Range - Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
EOS 1D2, 18 vertical frames, 70-200 @ 200mm, 1/320, f/14, ISO 100

Wow, what a project - I took this 18 frame panorama a couple of weeks ago in the Tetons. The final file is 3400 x 26,000 pixels. It took my 3.2GHz hyperthreaded machine w/ 2GB of RAM nearly an hour to do all of the pixel calculations to put this together and the fans were running at their highest speed! The little dark spots are Bison at nearly 200 pixels wide each to give you a sense of scale.

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by prashant on Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:21 am

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Glas am the first one to post the reply.
Wow...this is excellent EJ. I might try your pano method sometime this summer but with the film-scans.

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by Wil Hershberger on Mon Jun 21, 2004 7:38 am

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Stunning. I'll bet the original has awesome resolution. Now all you have to do is get it printed 16 inches high and 122 inches long

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by Brent Stovall on Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:44 am

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Is there a print in the future????? WOW! I have done some big stiches before but nothing like this.

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by stevebein on Mon Jun 21, 2004 11:50 am

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EJ,
With the cost of excellent panoramic cameras getting below the cost of a 600mm lens, you might consider the Seitz Super Roundshot 220. It takes any size Nikon 35mm lens, uses 220 film and you would probably excel with its technical aspects. Anyway, your shot is excellent. Now what size will you print it? I can refer you to a panoramic lab which does large prints. I saw one 40" by 96 feet that they were working on one time.
How much time did you actually spend making it work? YOu might enjoy having a piece of film with one shot being 2"x56" or so.
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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:10 pm

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Steve, I don't do that archaic chemical based film stuff

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by DMcLarty on Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:29 pm

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working beyond the edges once again....this is great

Is there a place where one can see a larger size would love to see the details stretched across my dual monitors.

I can see this on a Park type sign in front of the scene with all of the peaks named and information on it.

I chuckled to my self thinking about the 18 frames....thinking you might have been trying out the frame burst on the 1D2.... 18 frames in one 2 1/2 second smooth horizontal sweep across the horizon...well maybe not :roll:

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by Paul Skoczylas on Mon Jun 21, 2004 5:36 pm

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This is too cool! I'd really love to see a MUCH larger version.

The bison do add to the image--if they could be recognized at this size.

Either my eyes are playing tricks on me, or the stitching is not as seamless as we've come to expect from you--I swear I can see some vertical lines in the sky...

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by E.J. Peiker on Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:51 pm

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Well if you can see vertical stitch lines then its definitely your eyes :)because I do not use vertical stitching - I use random pattern stitching that finds best fit and best color match along with automatic seam color match. If you ever were to see a stitch artifact, it would be diagonal and jaggy and most certainly you could not see it on something that has been downsized 45x

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by Cindy Marple on Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:47 pm

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This is really incredible from a number of perspectives!
I do have to agree with Paul that I see vertical lines in the sky. It's almost that kind of thing with visual persistence, like where you stare at the white and black and see grey squares. Obviously not stitch lines!
But I will also say I didn't see it until I looked so maybe my eyes / mind are playing tricks...

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by Neil Fitzgerald on Tue Jun 22, 2004 3:33 am

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Hmm, I thought I saw a couple of lines too. I think it is some optical illusion. I'm guessing the actual horizontal angle of view is not too huge at 200mm. Can you put it into approximate equivalent lens length? Lighting across the image is nice and even. Nice all round really, and it certainly screams for huge printing.

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by DC on Tue Jun 22, 2004 10:19 am

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My word, what a nice picture...

Actually...

This is freakin awesome dude

I too would love to see a larger version.

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by stevebein on Wed Jun 23, 2004 2:07 am

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My poor old eyes can not see vertical lines in the sky. This is an awsome shot. When are you printing it and how big. The largest I have done with the archaic chemical stuff is 20" high by 12 ' 2" long.
Not an outdoor shot, though. Idid a 720 degree shot so cropping could be done where and how I chose. The shot was the inside of the Adventurers Club of Los Angeles meeting hall. IT took 15 minutes to do.

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by AndrewC on Mon Jun 28, 2004 10:01 pm

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E.J. Peiker wrote:I use random pattern stitching that finds best fit and best color match along with automatic seam color match.

Out of curiosity I guess that means you use something like ArcSoft http://www.arcsoft.com/en/products/panoramamaker/ to make the stitch ? A useful program I've looked at and thought of for making panoramas but I thought you only used

RAW conversion and CS is all you need and all I use

??

Regardless of the technicals it's a great image and must look wonderful at a decent size - I just need to convert to Apple and sink $3.5K (?) into one of their new 30" displays