Do photo backdrops make the camera lie?

Wow!

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire

Thanks Mark,this was a timely post for me. If I can manage it, I plan to spend a day in the Columbia Gorge taking photos for possible backdrop use and for scenery use. The Bognor Regis backdrop is very good and it took me a while to determine the edge between the photo and the world. Thanks again for sharing.

Didn't there used to be a lot of jokes about Bognor Regis, or am I confusing it with some other Bog?

Darn nice effect! How large were the prints and how did you print them?

Darn nice effect! How large were the prints and how did you print them?

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In message , LDosser writes

Any chance of sharing some of these? I don't know the exact program, but there is one which will take several photos and then put them together to make a panoramic view. Worth bearing this in mind when you take your pics.

I'm sure there are but none come readily to mind :-)

In message , Special Agent Melvin Purvis writes

They were about 12 inches high (I took the pics so that I just got the tops of them in. They are a commercial product from Gaugemaster in Ford, near Arundel in West Sussex, England.

You could probably find it, or, more likely, "them" by asking on rec.photo.digital.

In between the typical "How could you have been stupid enough to have asked this question?" responses you will most likely get some good advise.

~Pete

I'll share what I can get. We're down to short days already. Stitching software is what does the panorama pics. IIRC Canon supplies a version with their camera software. I'm also going to try some HDR (high dynamic range).

What I Really want is boat at my beck and call, as the shots I want would be best taken from about mid river. The area that interests me most is from Lyle to Wishram on the Washington side. If you have Google Earth (free), it's worth a look.

Butlins came to mind later ...

You could probably find it, or, more likely, "them" by asking on rec.photo.digital.

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Oh wow! rec.photo.digital.hell

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In between the typical "How could you have been stupid enough to have asked this question?" responses you will most likely get some good advise.

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If he's really lucky and has a tail wind ...

~Pete

There are lots of these programs around, for example "PhotoStitch" which comes with every Canon DSLR. You might even be able to obtain it without the camera from their website. But please don't beat me wen you find it rather ugly to use - I wasn't able to create a panorama with it, mainly because it doesn't take Canon's own raw files as input, but only Jpeg... The user-interface does leave a distinct toy-like taste behind...

But if you google for it, you might find more programs like that (probably some that are less toy-like) and I'm sure there's a plugin for Photochop (which should work in GIMP :-)

Have fun!

Heh. But as with almost any Newgroup there are several knowlegable and helpful inhabitants at RPD along with the usual trolls and crazies.

Here, for instance....

The program I use for serious panorama work is "Panorama Factory" It does all from automatic to place every point.

Jack