Re: Re: Michael Jackson, Neverland Ranch

> --- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Roger Berry" <onezebra1@...> wrote:
>> Here's showing the more down to earth human side of this event.
>> http://www.indiavrtours.com/vrphotos/michael4.html
>>
>> Roger Berry
>>
>> --- In PanoToolsNG@..., "Roger Berry" <onezebra1@> wrote:
>>> Some of you didn't make it to the Neverland Ranch for the Michael
>>> Jackson media circus today. I enjoyed seeing all of the equipment
>>> and talking to some of the professionals there.
>>> When I got there no-parking signs were being placed along the road
>>> for miles, when leaving they had set up a road block about 2 miles
>>> away and were not allowing anyone down the road. Here's my first
>>> pano, sorry the quality setting had to be set low in Photoshop and
>>> even the file is larger that I would like.
>>> http://www.indiavrtours.com/vrphotos/jackson4.html
>>>
> Hans has Jook's Michael Jackson New York scene too on panoramas.dk
> In Sydney there was a kind of flash mob memorial gathering in the city
> last night
> http://www.mediavr.com/flash/mjackson.htm
> This was a kind of a hassle to stitch and it reminded me of an issue
> with Smartblend and Enfuse in PTGui. Smartblend treats each of the
> extracted images from a raw file as separate images and will often
> blend them differently -- which is not what you want. So sometimes you
> need to Enfuse each pair first and then put them into PTGui. But PTGui
> wont do a simple Enfuse operation on an image pair. It always wants to
> transform the images into some kind of "panorama".
> So I made pairwise Enfused 360 equis from each extracted pair of jpgs
> and then created alphas on these in Photoshop for the image areas and
> then loaded these alpha-ed equis into PTGui to stitch and Smartblend
> into the final equi. (Who says that panorama makers use excessive
> jargon ;-))