Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography |  | Author: Harald Woeste
Publisher: Rocky Nook
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ISBN: 1933952458
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Publication Date: October 1, 2009
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The unusual perspective of a panoramic image creates a unique and intriguing visual experience for the viewer. Skillfully executed, panoramic photography can realize scenes which could otherwise never be captured in an image or seen with the naked eye.
Panoramas offer new possibilities for creative photographers, either as flat, two-dimensional images, or mapped into a 3D space that can be visited on a virtual tour. New, powerful, panorama software makes the workflow easier and more efficient than ever before.
Author Harald Woeste takes the reader on a tour from the basics of capturing panoramas, all the way through stitching, editing, and printing panoramic images. He provides a detailed description of the necessary equipment and materials, as well as the various software tools that can be used in the workflow. The latter half of the book illustrates the making of panoramas through a number of example projects.
In Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography you will find everything you need to know to create amazing panoramic images.
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 Now I know what to do to make good panoramic images December 8, 2009
Jack Durham
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Woesta explains with geometric graphics, screen shots, and resulting images why simple methods to make panoramas by combining 2 or more shots usually fails. By simple methods, I mean hand-held shots and standard tripod shots in which the camera is rotated. The author explains the concept of "Virtual Reality" (VR) vertical axis. If your lens does not rotate on this lens dependent VR axis, the stitched seam in the panorama will mismatch. The standard tripod is not a solution, as I have demonstrated to myself many times -- unless the seam occurs were there are no critical details. The author shows tripod heads that put the lens on the VR axis. You can make a cheap tripod head that is an aluminum plate bent into a "L" shape or you can buy a manufactured tripod head. These include heads that are manufactured to work with a specific lens and a variety of heads that are not specific lens-dependent that allow for complex adjustments to attain the VR axis position for the lens.
Other problems solved include parallax, focus, white balance and exposure. When the photographer has solved those problems, it is time to face the challenge of stitching the individual shots. You can't really manually overlap and color match the seams and get a high quality result. The are cheap stitching software programs that do do low quality work; the author ignores these, but they are a starting point for beginners. If you want to do high-quality stitched panoramas, Woesta does you a big favor by discussings the pros/cons of these four commercial software programs that do high quality work: PTGui Pro, Autodesk Stitcher, Adobe Photoshop, and Kolor Autopano Pro.
Finally, the author discusses post-processing of the stitched panorama.
Prior to reading the book, I had given up making panoramas. I'm encouraged by this book to get the proper tools and try again.
Great... December 31, 2009
TJ (Kuwait)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one great educational book. Maybe it does not include much mathematics (and it should not!), but it opened my eyes to lot of concepts and possibilities that extend far beyound Photoshop. I always thought that Photoshop is the tool for most types of panoramic scenes, but now I discovered there are even better programs (and they consume less memory as well). I learnt as well new concepts that I never knew of before and why sometimes I get it all wrong when I stitch my panoramas.
The projects at the end of the book and their discussions are great and makes the reader "in" the situation and imagine the problems and solutions to some practical problems. There might had been some technical terms that would make the reader go on some sentences or paragraphs twice or thrice to understand, but on the other hand, the flow of the processing and the explanations of the practical means is simple, but not any simpler!
I think this book can be used as a reference or as a school's book for quick acknowledgements about systems or properties of some aspects of the panoramic photography.
The fast track to panoramas is in this book March 12, 2010
J. Price (Ontario, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really love 360 degree, panoramic SWFs as a great way to share locations in an immersive, interactive way.
Just stick the SWFs on a web-site and interested observers around the world can partake.
But, there is a ton on info to assimilate and understand to make a really great panorama. This book gets you pointed in the right direction very quickly.
While there is considerable written discussion / explanation, it is well written and very interesting to read. The author also uses many diagrams and pictures to clearly reveal what's going on. It's a real 1 - 2 punch approach to getting across the needed information.
A great book, worth every penny.
GREAT OVERVIEW April 11, 2010
D. Brazil (Blackheath, NSW, AU)
This book has been an enormous help in giving me confidence to proceed with more sophisticated VR projects. It has great real world examples and step by step walk throughs. Very clear and informative with lots of tips you would take years to learn in the shooting, preparation, equipment and post-processing of panoramic images for print and online delivery.
Highly recommended for multimedia producers and photographers - intermediate to advanced
Depending on what you want to learn... July 1, 2010
Georges Lagarde aka GURL
... This book could be the best of all on the subject or not!
If you are interested only by tutorials about the stitcher you are using or interested only in a particular panorama category, you could find that there is too much theory or that the stitcher you are using is not covered (for example basic stitchers found on camera CD-ROM are not covered and there is no gigapixel-panorama in the 4 projects which are detailed.)
A full coverage of panoramic photography would require 1,500 pages rather than 150 and would be obsolete long before being printed. Harold Woeste opted for a much more sensible solution: the first part of the book describes the available tools and methods, the last part details 4 projects from shooting to printing or QTVR. Difficult subjects like stitching error correction and HDR are covered.
Choosing the right panorama head, choosing the right lens, choosing the right stitcher (or even the right tool from the stitcher your are using) take a long time and errors can be expensive: this book is both worth reading and kept as a reference.
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