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Craig Hanson
{K:7803} 4/10/2006
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Perfect stitching job Roger! I love the symmetry in this too! +7
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Galal El Missary
{K:84482} 4/10/2006
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The winning photo Dear Roger , Perfect work , very done .
Galal
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Rina
{K:27299} 4/10/2006
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You're right, can't see the stitching... An ideal place for a shot like this. Quite like the way the curves and lines play together here...
Roger, this category needs a project to go with it, don't you think? kiarang alaei has started a thread about suggestions for project of the month #53. I think I may inadvertantly given it the kiss of death though :)) but maybe you could suggest Panoramas....? Of course, the only downside to that is, you'll hog all the BIPs! :P
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Hugo de Wolf
{K:185017} 4/10/2006
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Hi Roger, I think I can get a grasp at how difficult this stitch must've been. and I'm impressed by the result. I'm not even attempting to find the stitches...:)
I like these urban scenes where an essentially one directional element (the alley / or pedestrian bridge in this case) is torn out of its perspective and converted into a dynamic, multidirectional composition. Very well done!
Cheers,
Hugo
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/10/2006
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Dunno about "ideal," Rina. Visually, yes, but as I've said it was a real nightmare to stitch...
That wasn't the kiss of death, though, that was mouth-to-mouth resuscitation! [grin]
I'm afraid it would be too self-serving for me to suggest a panorama project. It might come better from someone who, ahem, MIGHT suggest that it would publicise a VALUABLE donor PRIVILEGE that many people are NOT YET taking advantage of. Since "donors" = "money in the kitty," that might be enough to get a panorama project going. [hint, hint]
Personally, I think that flat views of 360-degree panoramas are too odd to be a winning prospect. Less extreme panoramas (and there are many who take excellent ones of this type) are much more likely to attract and please people.
But it was not long after I suggested there might be a panorama category for awards on the front page that one of my own panoramas featured there. So they DO listen even if they don't do exactly what was suggested!
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Rina
{K:27299} 4/10/2006
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Don't know about "odd" Roger, Hugo has just explained the appeal quite nicely. But just how far can one take 360-degree compositions? What about from a 4th story balcony in an inner city building - angle the lens downward to the street below at about ??-degrees, and let 'er rip!... Geez.. you can tell I've been thinking about it huh? But not enough obviously - the idea is full of holes. 
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/10/2006
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Rina, I promise you if you start a topic in any of the Panorama forums, I'll answer you there. Here, I'll just say that you usually have to keep the camera absolutely level for the panorama, but if you use a VR viewer, you can look down, up and all around using the cursor keys. One of the nice things about immersive panoramas!
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Manu
{K:13082} 4/10/2006
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Great piece of work, Roger....I can't see the seams...well worth the effort
Cheers
Manu
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stingRay part 2 .
{K:238240} 4/10/2006
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Now you've got Rina going all technical Roger. Love it. I think that the amount of work you put in to these glorious panoramas is wonderful. I do not understand the process but I can vividly imagine the patience you must have exercised to achieve this and the others that you have posted. Well done to you. I love the details in this one and the patterning in the roof. All the best my friend....Ray
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/10/2006
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Thanks, Ray. It was the unusual quality of light as well as the pattern of acrylic sheets forming the roof--and the glimpes of the normal sunlit world outside--that made me want to take a panorama here. But all those straight and curving lines meant that the slightest stitching errors showed up unmistakably, so I had to get into all sorts of complicated stuff to eliminate them. I probably wouldn't have bothered if I had known!
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Paul's Photos
{K:35218} 4/10/2006
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excellent.. I love the perspective.. great view
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safak tortu
{K:3058} 4/10/2006
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Nice view, good perspective...Congrats....
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Keith Naylor
{K:13064} 4/11/2006
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Hi Roger, thats a really nice job, great stiching. Don't you take the old widelux out any more? Those images were fantastic.
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/11/2006
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Thanks, Keith. Good to hear from you. I haven't used the Widelux much recently, although I've put up a couple of shots in the last week or so if you care to look... I am having too much fun with my circular fisheye. The wide-angle addiction is getting worse! Telephoto lenses now feel like looking through a keyhole...
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Gabriela Tanaka
{K:16531} 4/11/2006
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WOW!!! Here you go again, Roger!!! But THIS is tremendous and much more embellishing the actual place than it really is.Why, those plexiglass covers are turned into wonderful architecture,arches, curves and lines that interact to create something......that does not exist!In pano view it is mind boggling! Very well done! Bravo!!!
Best regards,
Gabriela
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/11/2006
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Why THANK you, Gabriela! That's one of the nicest things anyone has ever said about one of these panoramas. The plexiglass roof appears (looking at it from the end, not from the middle as it is here) in another one you've seen before:
http://www.usefilm.com/Image.asp?ID=1074742
Quite different, isn't it!
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1301307 60
{K:43692} 4/11/2006
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This photo confuses me..., it goes against the natural way of perceiving an outdoor walkway. I was trying to comprehend what seems to be wrong or different with it, why it feels strange looking at it. I think one of the factor is the light and shadow, as a photographer, we are used to see the light, here we see it concentrated on the center. It is as if the sun or the light source is very near radiating only at the center part.... the architechtural design also adds to this mind deceiving image... well done Mr. Roger William...
regards..
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Roger Williams
{K:84100} 4/12/2006
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Yes, 130, they are not really meant to be looked at as flat prints. The extreme left and right of the photo join together seamlessly and are what was directly behind me when I faced the doorway in the middle. The directions of the shadows are what look strangest to me... the sun in your eyes in the middle, and seeming to be BEHIND at the sides!
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Mary Brown
{K:69853} 4/15/2006
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The symetry is very appealing in this, Roger. It is so satisfying when you finally get the hang of something that you have been trying, isn't it? This is a great stitching job. I really enjoy this effect.
MAry
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