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Douglas Dunlap (Dougdun)
United States Virgin Islands
Gigapans: 4
Snapshots: 0
Bookmarks: 0
Last Visited: July 04, 2009
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The motiff shot in the United States Virgin Islands. I thought I would try this again with the new software, 0.4.3864. I'm now runing Win 7 RC 1 64 bit, 4 GB Ram and another 4 GB Readyboost. I can't get the exported file to open in anything including Photoshop CS4, so the only way to look at it is to upload it. Intel quad core. HP laptop, 18 inch screen, Nice.
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The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is one of the last remaining amusement parks on the ocean (actually it's the only one I know of besides Coney Island). Admission is free to walk around. There is also an arcade. This photo was taken from the Santa Cruz Wharf. The Wharf has restaurants and gift shops. Everyone is happy in Santa Cruz.
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Cruz Bay is the largest town on St John. It is the main entry point for the island. Passenger ferries come and go from St Thomas and the British Virgin Islands. Car barges also serve the island. A car barge is on the upper right of the photo. Most of the smaller islands you see are uninhabited, except for the island in the center near the horizon.
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This shot was taken of Trunk Bay, US Virgin Islands from the overlook on North Shore Drive. It is the recurrent photograph of the island. I am amazed how well the Gigapan stitcher software did. I?m using 0.4.3510. Some of the shots have a low contrast clouds in them and some have featureless ocean yet the software managed to place the images.
I tried this array using Photoshop CS3 using Photomerge and it choked my computer. I can?t even show you what happened because the program hung and went into a ?non responding? state. I also tried PTgui version 8. It required the addition of hundreds of control points which I haven?t completely adjusted. Some of the control point errors arestill extremely large. It appears that Gigapan stitcher is the only program that takes advantage of the precise location of the images to place them in the panorama.
Some additional technical details: Imager SN01097, firmware 0.32.1, powered by AA alkaline batteries. Camera: Panasonic DMC-TZ3 at the 10x zoom setting, auto exposure and auto focus turned on (they can?t be turned off). Computer: HP laptop, 2.0 GHz processor, 3GB of RAM, Vista 32 bit.
I?ll go back next week and repeat this photo. I just missed the power boat in the shot, you can see the wake. The left side of the photo may not be interesting enough so I may crop it out.
Goodbye!
Doug
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