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Hi there,

here is one more picture in Carolina. It has more than a year that I’ve been there and still have panoramas to mount. This is the sixth of them. After walking in a small track for about 40 minutes we arrivet at the summit of a small plateau from where we jump using the zipline. The total length of the cable is 1.200 meters (almost 4000 feet). You can get a little afraid before jumping, but it is really cool. Right before jumping I did this panoramic image to try to show a little bit of the sensation and the fantastic view from there.

Other panoramas in Carolina

Technical datasheet:

• Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
• Lens: Opteka 6.5mm
• Tripod: Dolica proline with self made tripod head  – model 2
• Spin: 8 stops 45 degrees horizontal + 1 zenith + 2 nadir (1 without the tripod)
• Pictures: 1 JPG with 18megapixels at each stop
  
• Final image: 12.490 x 6.245 pixels = 78 megapixels
• Softwares used: Hugin, Enblend, GIMP, Panotools Scripts, Deval VR player, ImageMagick, krpano tools
• Plugin: krpano viewer

See you, Cartola.

Hi folks,

during Rio de Janeiro Carnival you can follow more than 180 groups in only one weekend. The groups are usually called “blocos” that I guess can be translated to block in English. Last February 12th I went to photograph a block called Vira Lata. I put a pole over the truck to shoot the crowd following the group. You can see the panoramic picture to listen to their sound.

Technical datasheet:

This time I have used a new adapter to hold the pole. It was simply an aluminum bar over which I put my foot to keep the pole fixed. The truck was shaking very much and it made the stitching very complicated and mainly on the nadir view the immersive panorama needed a lot of post edition in GIMP. Besides that there was the expected difficulty of joining pictures of moving people. It is easy to find some people without head and some other body parts apart.

• Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
• Lens: Sigma 10-20mm at 10mm
• Tripod: Dolica proline with nodal ninja pole fixed to an aluminum bar and panoramic head self made – model #2
• Spin: 8 steps at 45 degrees horizontal with the cam at about 30º down + 8 steps at 45 degrees horizontal with cam at about 30º up
• Pictures: 3 RAWs with 18megapixels at each stop, varying 1EV with Magic Lantern firmware.
• Final image: 18000×9000 pixels = 160 megapixels
• Softwares used: Hugin, Enblend + Enfuse, Multiblend, GIMP, Panotools Scripts, Panini, Deval VR player, ImageMagick, krpano tools
• Plugin: krpano viewer

See you, Cartola.

This is one more picture taken in July 11th, 2011 in Itaipu Dam. Now we can see the ducts that take the water to the turbines to generate the electricity. The ducts hugeness can be seen by the size of the people near them and also comparing their size with the front building.

Read more at Itaipu site.

Other Panoramas in Itaipu

Technical Datasheet:

• Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
• Lens: Opteka 6.5mm
• Tripod: not used
• Spin: 8 stops 45 degrees (horizontal) + 1 zenith + 1  nadir. At each stop 1 JPG shoot.
• Softwares used: Hugin, GIMP, Panotools Scripts, Panini, ImageMagick, krpano tools
• Plugin: krpano viewer

See you, Cartola.

Here is one more picture from Carolina, in Maranhão’s countryside. This one has been taken in July 19th, 2011. Once again Bruno has decided to show him many times, as in the picture taken at Village Rio Verde last April.

Other panoramas from Carolina

Technical datasheet:

It has been done once again without a tripod, but it was very easy to assemble. The parallax errors practically didn’t exist. Nature pictures some times are like this. This one doesn’t have strong or very long straight lines. The only parallax adjustment was made at the electric transmission wires, far away. Besides that it has a little hole in the water due to some masks I have used. To fix that a clone tool was used.

Once again I did different expositions from one only original image and combined them using Enfuse.

• Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
• Lens:Opteka 6.5mm
• Tripod: not used
• Spin: 8 pics 45 degrees (horizontal) + 1 zenith + 1 nadir
  
• Softwares used: Hugin, Enfuse, GIMP, Panini, ImageMagick, krpano tools
• Plugin: krpano viewer

See you, Cartola.

This is one more picture made at Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil. And I’ll post many more here as I finish them. The picture was taken in July, 2011. I think many can will feel nostalgic with this kind of image, like me. I used to camp and to go to countryside when I was a kid. Places like this bring me very good memories. I didn’t know Carolina before, we went there because much people from my wife’s family have some history there and have a special place in there hearts for this place.

At the picture we can see the kids playing. They were throwing rocks with a slingshot made with a fork and some elastics. Two of them are my own kids.

Related pictures:

• View of Carolina from the Church Tower

Technical data sheet:

This has been an easy picture. Good light, few “human lines”, few people movement. I think I can improve my pictures sharpness and noise reduction. I will begin to work with RAW files and learn how to deal better with those aspects.

To improve the dynamic range I have simulated different expositions from the original image at GIMP and then combined them with Enfuse. If I haven’t done that the darker places at stronger shadows would show less details. For this the RAW file possibly will also give better results.

It has also been the first time I gave more attention to noise reduction. After some tests I have used a demo version of Neat Image Standalone for Linux on FreeBSD. It ran ok and I liked the result. Next time I might test some GIMP plugins or ImageMagick scripts to noise reduction.

• Camera: Canon 550D (RebelT2i)
• Lens: Opteka 6.5mm
• Tripod: Dolica proline with panoramic head made by me (model #2)
• Spin: 8 pics 45 degrees (horizontal) + 1 zenith + 2 nadir (one without the tripod)
  
• Softwares used: Hugin, Enfuse, GIMP, Panotools Scripts, Panini, ImageMagick, krpano tools
• Plugin: krpano viewer

See you, Cartola.