Today's Job Site.... The Whole Site, And Nothing But The Site.

480sparky

Had some fun today.

Pipe a detached garage this morning. HOs actually served us lunch (brats, chips, pop, tea, topped off with ice cream). I was almost finished by then, so I took some time and broke out the super-wide-angle lens for my DSLR and took a series of images.

I came home and ran them through some 'stitching' software. I did this just for chits a giggles.



To see the full-size image (warning: it's an 18-megapixel photo, so if you're on dial-up, don't bother unless you want to wait! ), click here.

Now the sad part. Now that it's all done, the builder tells me, "Oh, I forget to tell you. She changed her mind about rocking it, so we're hanging sheetrock next week." I was after that.

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nEighter

cool pic man!

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J F

what mode did you have your camera on, "escher" ?

Winchester

So they just working around your pipe?

What software did you use for stitching? I want to start doing that for those hard to take interior shots

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480sparky

That's up in the air right now. Builder admitted he's on the hook for any extra charges to change it to NM.

AutoStitch. Click on Download (Windows Demo). Hang on to your wallet, though.

There's a few tricks to getting images like this.

1. Take lots of overlapping shots.
2. Take them all with the camera vertically. The software can stitch just about any number of images together, so you need to make the photos as tall as you can. Taking them vertically get as much top-to-bottom images to work with as possible
3. Set the focus on manual, and don't let the camera focus for you.
4. Use manual exposure. Using auto-exposure will produce a wide range of exposures from frame to frame.

3 and 4 are the most important. This give the software identically exposed and focused images to work with. Otherwise, the differences will be obvious in the final image.

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KentWhitten

Photoshop does this as well. I have a 14 mp camera and too many photos will buckle the comp.

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BCConstruction

Nice. I was thinking about a WA lense for my DSLR.

480sparky

These were taken with a Nikon 10-24mm at 10mm.

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Winchester

Nice, would that work with my D80? I'm still new to the photography thing.

I was thinking a tilt/shift lense would be good, but maybe this would be better?

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480sparky

Yes. But it would be the equivelant to a 15-32mm on a 35mm film camera due to the sensor size.

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BCConstruction

Thanks man i will take a look. I only have the rebel XTI but seems to work pretty well. Just trying to find time to learn a little more about it all.

WNYcarpenter

Holy cool garage! That would have been a fun build. I wish our designs had more arches!

Can you post some exterior pics?

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jtpro

That's really neat. Thanks for sharin' Sparky!

Would have enjoyed it more if you would have shared some brauts too but hey.

SC sawdaddy

At least you don't have to worry about corner bead.

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mccarty.74

I don't think Clem framed that one.

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nEighter

suprised Leo hasn't chimed in

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CScalf

yes definitely some exterior pics....

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slowforthecones

nice pic...curious what are they going to finish the ceiling off with..notice you had the conduit running against the top plate.