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E Wing
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october 2006 tomiboi

1st
E Wing
by tomboi

Oradea

E wing of the fortress of Oradea
I guess no words are neccesary
you can see some more
www.cetateaoradea.ro

Canon EOS 350D ,Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6
stitched pano using 21 images (3 rows of 7 in portrait)
all at iso 400 with tripod full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Hernan Lafi Peyras17-Nov-2006 19:29
Great angle, I really like this composition!
ctfchallenge10-Nov-2006 10:35
Mary Anne
HDR is actually called HDRI = high dynamic range imaging.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging#Photography
:))
tom
Rod 10-Nov-2006 09:01
I'm not too familiar wiv it Mary Anne but apparently you take five different exposures from under to over exposed & combine them in software. The results show full details in the shadows & highlight area's & look like computer game graphics. Jammy's winning shot last challenge was one, it did look a bit strange but I didn't pick it as an HDR, it stands for high definition something.
Because Tom's shot looked a bit unnatural I thought he had used the dreaded HDR but it turned out to be a simple stitch of 21 picys:-)
ctfchallenge10-Nov-2006 02:07
I must have missed something along the way. What is HDR?
--Mary Anne
ctfchallenge09-Nov-2006 20:36
no hdr mate
if it would be a hdr thingy,
you should see the frameand the sig.
;))
tom
Rod 09-Nov-2006 19:34
Maybe it's the perspective of 21 stitches that's throwing me, is this in the Guinness book of records?:-)
My hesitation with this shot is we're starting to see HDR picys posted with full shadow & highlight details that looks false & something about this shot with all the details made me think you had given up photography to do HDR picys for the wow factor:-)
Well done then Tom you did a great job mate:-)
Squared C09-Nov-2006 17:19
So cool! Great perspective and use of the wide-angle feel!
mon 09-Nov-2006 17:09
haha, i know this place. deffinitely "dilapidated" :))
Brent 09-Nov-2006 15:36
This looks great Tom. At first glance I thought maybe you did some heavy burning to bring out shadow detail, then I saw all your multiple light sources everywhere. Glad this thing didn't fall over on you. Well done.
ctfchallenge09-Nov-2006 10:32
not much really,Rod mate.
stitching was the first step.
after stitching some basic level, color balance, a bit ov USM and
noise reduction was applied.resized and saved for web.

is it that unnatural?

light was plenty since all four levels are collapsed, and as you can see I've got some serious holes in the roof and walls too.
if you still wont believe me, I'll send you the original uncropped/unedited stitch.
thanks for watching.
good to be back.
:))
tom
Rod 09-Nov-2006 10:18
Tom wot processing did you do on this? I'm getting really confused lately seeing very clear details where me brain ses there should be shadows in quite a few shots being posted.