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Dear Tom,
Love all of your photos, particularly the B&W ones.
Which program did you use to merge the photos to produce your wonderful pano's.
Program I use produces increased density in areas where overlap occurs.
Love to see more of your work.
All the best.
Kind regards
Peter
P.S. (Currently in the cold, southern end, Albury, as opposed to sunny warm Cairns in Far Nth Qld Australia). Not quite as cold as Alaska though. Would love to travel to Canada and Alaska one day, your photos have made me feel like getting out my old 500CM into our Snowy Mtn Range for a day or two.
 
Hi

I just use the program in photoshop with at least 30% overlap. With wider angle lenses the circular module works better but usually the needs adjustment with transform/warp. Two issues can cause banding, light falloff and polarizers, exacerbated by wider lenses. The light falloff can be corrected in any number of programs.

I get down under once in a while, supposed to go Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney next month. We do fly over Cairns on the way to china etc depending on where the typhoons are up north.

Cheers. Tom
 
Dear Tom,
Just had the switch flick in my brain. Fliger 747. Whom do you fly for?
I do a bit of segelflug myself. Have a CPL with Command IR which I have never used, shame really.
I am often in Melbourne, grand children live there. Do you get some time off in Melbourne ever, or just fill up with fuel, Pax and out of there? If you get a bit longer would love to meet, shout you a cup of tea, you can have one of the great cakes at 'Hopetoun Tea Rooms' in The Block Arcade just off Collins St., talk about your amazing images, maybe go shoot a couple of photos whilst on a 'cafe crawl'. If you don't get to bring your Blad on your trips, luggage restrictions or whatever, just bring a CF card and I will bring both of my H3D's (22 and a 39) and a few lenses. You might have room in your map case for a couple of your images printed. they look so much better printed than on ipad.
Thanks for the advice re your pano's.
I don't have photoshop as yet. Had been toying with the possibility of 'Autopanopro' or 'PTGui'.
Did not realise Photoshop was capable of such beautiful pano's. Though, I get the feeling that the transform/warp thing might require a lot more tech skill than I possess.
Also did not realise the bands were due to light fall-off. I had thought might have just been an overlapping effect as you might get on a light box if you overlapped two transparencies. Thanks for 'enlightening' me.
All the best.
Kind regards
Peter
 
I fly for Atlas Air, we have the worlds largest fleet of 747 cargo freighters, including the new 747-8 and a number of passenger planes. We currently do the long haul bulk cargo for QANTAS and ANZ. Toward the end of the month I am supposed to go through Aukland and Melbourne. However one of the features of our flying for QANTAS is frequent schedule changes.

I do enjoy down under, though for Americans it has become somewhat expensive due to the exchange rate. I was in Melbourne a number of years ago when the heat and forest fires were at a maximum. Flying foxes were dropping out of the trees! Nice countryside, always amazed at the number of horse farms.

Regards. Tom
 
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