It’s interview time again. Today I have Ron Pepper on the show, he is a professional panorama photographer from San Francisco, California, and he will let us in on a few of the pro’s secrets…
“San Francisco Panorama” by Ron Pepper
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MP3 for today’s show:
- MP3 link to today’s show (13MB)
Links from today’s show:
- Ron Pepper’s Website www.panoramanetwork.com
- Stitcher Express by REALVIZ
- Parllax explained
- AutoStitch (Free time limited demo)
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Great to hear you are a hitch-hiker’s fan - with my magic number birthday coming up soon as well!
Enjoy a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster over the weekend, and happy shooting to you too.
Great work!
Simon
6*9=42
trust me, it is!
and thanks for all the fish!
i liked the tip about using photographing your hand as a marker! my first thought was “take some chalk and a blackboard to the ‘happy shooting’!”
more baggage…
but numbered markers are doable with a hand
and if 5 isnt enough, make them 5 bits, thats 32 numbers…
thanks for doing this little nürnberger trichter! (legendary funnel device to fill knowledge into your head)
I sure hope my podcast is a bit more fun than getting a funnel stuck inside your head and books squeezed in
cool interview! Good informations about panoramas and a good description of the “nodal point”.
… So lets go to the restaurant at the edge of the galaxy
Oh… and there are more D.Adams fans out there than you might know
I love taking Pana shots. I have quite a few now,.. but the problem is.. where can i get them printed. I am here in Los Angeles, Ca (USA). I got to some digital print places and they have the little kiosk. It forces you to crop it. Any idea anyone?
Hi Cris,
I just discovere Podcast and Tips from the top floor somedays ago and I loved it.
I’ve just heard the show about panoramic photography and it’s great. I run an online photo magazine here in Brazil and I’m exactly preparing an article about panoramic photography and this interview give me some nice info.
Yours,
Charles
a “bit” more fun? dude, some petabyte more fun i assume, never had the funnel…!
what i tried to get at, was the way the knowledge just “flows” into my head while i can do all kinda things cos i dont need my hands or eyes to “shovel” the knowledge into my head.
and the density you (among some others but not all) deliver kinda reminded me of that old dream of the “nürnberger trichter”.
the basic idea behind that thing was a good one, not torture.
keep up the good work!
Stumbled upon your podcast this morning.
Great!
WOW - This AutoStich-Thing is awesome!
I’ve tested it today with a very hard job: our living-room! So very close objects are there.
I just started to make photos. about 150 photos. down to up, then a bit around, up to down, around… and so on…
Then i simply started Autostich, selected all those pictures and this Software just made a panorama out of it!
sure, not 100% perfekt because of nodal-point problems and so on. But hey, it’s costs me 5 to 10 Minutes or so - it’s very quick and it’s good enough to show it to friends or to print out to hang it on the wall in my home-office
COOL tip!
Hope that there will be a comercial version available soon.
“happy shooting”
Just discovered your podcasts a few days ago and really appreciate the tips. I’m trying to learn pano photography (even bought a pano head) and appreciate the podcast on this.
Auto stich works great (and I’m using a Mac with virtual PC)
http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/North_America/United_States/photo129803.htm
Useful information and very inspiring. Will there be more advanced podcasts on this topic? I hope so!
Loved it, just got back from 2 weeks in Alaska and wish I had heard this first. The simple suggestion to take a picture of your hand to indicate a panoramic series is simple yet workable. I have 1500 photos I took, and buried in among them are panoramic sequences. It turns out to be harder to identify them than I thought it would be at the time.