Showing posts with label nodal ninja. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nodal ninja. Show all posts

Monday, March 8, 2010

Natural Outing - Chiling Fall, Selangor, Malaysia

An outing arrange by local FLickr group @KLNO

This is not really far from Kuala Lumpur, but it is slight north drive toward Fraser Hill.
from Kuala Lumpur either way to reach
Path A
i. direct toward Rawang (~30minutes)
ii. after Rawang, toward Kuala Kubu Bahru or Fraser Hill (~1 hour)
iii. it is on way up to Fraser Hill from Kuala Kubu Bahru and look for signboard (~20minutes)

Path B
i. from North South Highway
ii. toward North
iii. look for exist Tg Malim or Kuala Kubu Bahru (45minutes)
iv. toward Kuala Kubu Bahru (from Toll Exist ~30minutes)
v. it is on way up to Fraser Hill from Kuala Kubu Bahru and look for signboard
(all times are estimated based on some traffic slow down by traffic, dark road...)

This outing actually have 3 sessions where we start travel from KL ~4:45am and arrived Kuala Kubu Bahru and went to DQ Mosque for sunrise & breakfast ... then toward to Chiling Fall for slow shutter shooting, macro and playing with water :D
after the Chiling Fall, we back to DQ Mosque to wait for sunset session ...

for start let's me share few picture

... a late sunrise ...
... a late sunrise ...


then we toward Chiling Falls
... Spherical View - Chiling Fall ...
Spherical View - Chiling Fall

... pano View - Chiling Fall ...
Pano View - Chiling Fall

a 360 x 180 degree view for Chiling Fall
http://www.liewwkphoto.com/360pano/ChilingFall-small/chiling%20fall-small.htm

then we leave Chiling Fall then Sunset
... this picture was after sunset and last picture I snap before leave DQ Mosque
... DQ Mosque ...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

News - 1st try on spherical panorama

for me spherical panorama picture is a art ... and it will be fun to see 360 degree view within single frame .. I not really a fan of it but while I have gear to make one so let have a try ....and for 1st timer let share what I face ...

1. nodal point is important to find out before go on field and sometime don't depend number from www but try to calibrate at home before go on field (some info of Nodal point /Entrance pupil point can look here http://wiki.panotools.org/Entrance_Pupil_Database )

2. try to overlap as much as possible ... (sometime it just can't auto find the crossing points then manual work need to be done)

3. understand your's camera, lock WB and exp else lot of work to adjust different exp and WB

4. try cover moving object in single frame else it can stitch properly and need some clone work

5. try cover strong exp area in single frame, avoid the stitch exp different

6. choose the right software, at 1st I facing problem to merge it trying vary software but after I get PTGui. It work perfect for most of my testing

7. use wider len (or fish eye) .. else need to shoot too many picture to cover 360degree
- 24mm @FF need 24 pictures (I cross 30-40% .. may be too much and if redicue the crossing may be can reduce to 18)

*** I shoot using Canon 5dm2 + 24-105 L @24mm and Canon 5dm2 + 12-24mm @12mm

here you god my 1st try
my 1st try on spherical panorama

also sharing .mov view
small
http://www.liewwkphoto.com/360pano/PantaiKelanang-small/PantaiKelanang-small.html

large (need faster connection)
http://www.liewwkphoto.com/360pano/PantaiKelanang-Large/PantaiKelanang-large.html

leave me comments ... how you feel about spherical panorama ?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Panorama Series : 1. Golden Moment Bukit Panorama

as promise to myself, this year I will do more landscape and panorama photo shooting. so let me start a Panorama collection series ....

1. Golden Moment from Bukit Panorama
Golden Moment from Bukit Panorama

larger view click http://www.liewwkphoto.com/image-viewer.htm?Fgallery4-4 (2400 longer side)

shooting details
difficulty
1. not easy to control exposure as the light change too fast
2. the clouds, sun moving too fast while Golden moment
3. stitch full size of Canon 5dm2 pictures is not a fun job , it make my i5 750 PC with 8 GB memory run like a turtle
4. after stitch the original JPEG ~110MB in size and not easy to edit and need patient

Gear
Canon 5dm2 + Canon 24105L@50mm + Nodal Ninja 5
Bukit Panorama, Sg Lembing, Pahang, Malaysia
# 5 stitch 1 by using Nodal Ninja Full resolution available 22423 x 6871
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 32/10 second ===> 3.2 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 11/1 ===> ƒ/11
# ISO Speed Ratings = 100

more click http://www.flickr.com/photos/liewwk/sets/72157623387374373/

Friday, February 26, 2010

News - New Category added into www.liewwkphoto.com

was away to East Coast Malaysia for sunrise and MACRO outing last 2 days and come back with "pano" un process pictures by using Nodal Ninja 5L... bo 360 pano for this trip...

but my 2nd Panorama from Bukit Panorama, Sg Lembing, Pahang, Malaysia (let write something about this later) is share @www.liewwkphoto.com gallery 4.

*picture share only 2400pix@longer site but full details of pictures as below

a full panorama view from where we stand from Bukit Panorama, Sg Lembing, Pahang, Malaysia
Bukit Panorama, Sg Lembing, Pahang, Malaysia

Canon 5dm2 + Canon 24105L@50mm
# 6 stitch 1 by using Nodal Ninja Full resolution available 23226 x 5767
# Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 6/10 second ===> 1/1.66667 second ===> 0.6 second
# Lens F-Number / F-Stop = 16/1 ===> ƒ/16

Panorama View from Bukit Panorama, Sg Lembing

- this is the view you will be seeing while up there

larger view click http://www.liewwkphoto.com/image-viewer.htm?Fgallery4-1

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Landscape - my 1st try on UWA Panorama

I love wide view .. that's why I have my 5dm2 with SIGMA12-24mm and the len almost 99% @12mm .... but after a while I still found some spot 12mm may not wide enough so I trying to do some manual Panorama but the result look bad for last few try ... and now with the help of Nodal Ninja 5L , I finally managed to finish my "not so good" panorama sunset

this picture outcome from 6 captures
1. use smaller angle to get more cross point locate as center as possible as side view of 12mm normally distort badly
2. output picture size 12548 x 9398
3. my new windows7 64bit 8GB PC still having problem to fully edit this picture so minimum PP done
4. the actual JPEG is ~110MB so I resize to 1000 @ longer size just to share the view
5. not sure how many mega pix I will get but am sure >50M pix

both picture below show from same standpoint, same gear, same focal length
6 to 1 Pano

and one of the main focus frame
another spot and sunset

hope I am not doing too bad but will trying to get better shot
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