[HDRI] Photosphere 1.6 available

[Kirk Thibault]

Here's another panorama - LDR but with a twist.  This panorama is  
composed of 10 macro photos of a charm bracelet.  The image was  
composed by stitching the top row (5 images left to right) and bottom  
row (5 images left to right).  These two panoramas were then stitched  
together with a single wave of the magic "pano orig" and "pano dest"  
wand.

http://kirkt.smugmug.com/gallery/1473939/1/73398853

The bracelet was moved underneath the stationary camera - an XY  
positioning table would have been nice, but a white note pad did the  
trick.  There is motion artifact in the upper right of the image,  
where the bracelet must have moved between shots.  Pretty cool.  I  
resized the image down to 5000 pixels wide.  I can imagine very large  
microscopy panoramas being generated this way, with a flash or HTML  
component that would permit the viewer to click on a section of a lo- 
res image and get a higher res version of that section - sort of like  
zooming in.  The lighting was provided during midday, under a patio  
umbrella.  To get sufficient DoF, I used f/32 with 1/2 sec shutter  
speed across all images.  The first time I tried to generate the  
image sequence, the sun went in, and the exposure got messed up.  The  
next time, the clouds cooperated.

kirk


On May 10, 2006, at 10:14 PM, Gregory J. Ward wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just uploaded version 1.6 of Photosphere, both PPC and Universal  
> versions to my website:
>