Miami Dolphins Stadium, pano

Silverpenguin · Nov 3, 2008

I finally had a go at processing this beast of an image! I don't think this is my final pass but I've got the base image sorted now so I thought I'd stick it up for all to see.

It was BLOODY hot this day, 100 degrees! I had sweat dripping off me from just sitting still and the top of the D3 was too hot to touch - no thanks to a cloudless sky and the sun directly overhead!

Flickr has done it's usual over sharpening trick, thanks Flickr!

Anyway, here is the medium size:

And here it is 1100 pixels wide. Impact is lost at these sizes...the original looks very nice with a ton of crown detail! Speaking of crowds, autopano pro did an AMAZING job of stitching this and working out when there were ghosts of people that should be removed. There are a couple of small errors in the foreground people but I can live with that.

Oh and it's 6 vertical shots stitched

RMThompson · Nov 3, 2008

What did you shoot it with?

Jeff Canes · Nov 3, 2008

^^ Has to be the first game of the regular season this year, my University of Miami sets are on opposite side and corner in the shade

Silverpenguin · Nov 5, 2008

RMThompson said:
What did you shoot it with?

D3 with the 28-70

Jeff Canes said:
^^ Has to be the first game of the regular season this year, my University of Miami sets are on opposite side and corner in the shade

Yep, it was the first game of the 2008/09 season! :thumbup:

lockwood81 · Nov 5, 2008

Go Fins!! Nice work.

jv08 · Nov 7, 2008

Great work!

sambrody44 · Nov 7, 2008

How did you snap the shots fast enough to avoid movement in the crowd and on the field? Or did you crop this out of a much bigger image?

Silverpenguin · Nov 12, 2008

sambrody44 said:
How did you snap the shots fast enough to avoid movement in the crowd and on the field? Or did you crop this out of a much bigger image?

There was a lot of movement of people between all the shots but thanks to autopano pro it was easy to get round it.

Ls3D · Nov 12, 2008

I can usually spot some seams or slight variations in panos, NOT this one super tight @1200pxls! :thumbup:

I'm glad no one, or camera was over cooked!

-Shea

cereal83 · Nov 12, 2008

Awesome shot but couldn't a nice wide angle lens produce the same effect? Also, how many shots did you take for this pic?

Ls3D · Nov 12, 2008

A wide angle lens would have distortion that this one does not.

-S

gsgary · Nov 13, 2008

Lovely and colorful :thumbup:

STICKMAN · Nov 13, 2008

I think this could be pulled off with a good wide as well......

Nice work on the shot either way.......

Silverpenguin · Nov 15, 2008

STICKMAN said:
I think this could be pulled off with a good wide as well......

Nice work on the shot either way.......

Of course you could easily take this with a wide angle, however...the image was from 6 shots and the full res is (from memory) something like 16,000 x 9,000 pixels so it is MUCH more detailed and could be printed way bigger than a single frame wide angle which would only have been 4,200 x maybe 2,500. Zoom in to a single shot compared to a pano of the same image and you will see the huge difference in detail, that's the advantage, especially on a shot like this that has so much detail.

Pano shot's, for me, are a way of getting that wide angle look a) without having to carry an extra lens and b) to get much more detail in the shots that you would otherwise.