Plaza Mayor - Madrid, Spain

nordhäuser, on December 25, 2005, said:

Nice, how did you do this panoramic effect?

Isaac Garcia, on December 26, 2005, said:

With 40 images and a loooot of patience ;)

You can find a lot of info about pano photography here: http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/index.php

montuno, on May 14, 2006, said:

Te lo has currado, si señor.

Isaac Garcia, on May 15, 2006, said:

Gracias :)

La verdad es que esta, si tuviese que repetirla, no lo haría... al menos, sin el material adecuado ;-)

Waqas Usman, on June 10, 2006, said:

Perhaps the best tools for Panorama stitching are the "Pano Tools" by Helmut Dersch (free, GNU license), but it was difficult to learn to use them because no GUI was available in the beginning, these are very powerful tools, you can stitch m x n images (unlimited number of rows by columns) and you can correct lens distortion, correct perspective and a lot of other stuff. Of course you can also stitch 360 x 360 images with PanoTools!! (they're actually 360 x 180) And you can invoke the interactive panorama (just like that quicktime mov one) with a simple two-line Javascript code.

Now there are several GUI's out there. The best one IMO is Hugin http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ The best part is that it's free, like the PanoTools!! You can find several tutorials on the site that range from the very beginner level to advance. I've only recently found Hugin and I'm already loving it!

Waqas Usman, on June 10, 2006, said:

See this example: http://www.pbase.com/johnarne/test

The code for the applet: [applet code="ptviewer.class" archive="http://no12.dyndns.org/foto/pano/ptviewer.jar" width=600 height=450> [param name=file value="http://no12.dyndns.org/foto/pano/pano_med.jpg"> [PARAM name=fovmin value="40"> [PARAM name=fovmax value="80"> [PARAM name=tiltmin value="-38"> [PARAM name=tiltmax value="41"> [/applet>

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Matias Mazza, on June 12, 2006, said:

the best software to do panoramic stitches is realviz stitcher. VERY VERY EASY TO USE. I posted some panoramic pictures I made with this package. THIS IS A GREAT PICTURE!!!!

Isaac Garcia, on June 14, 2006, said:

Waqas: I know, this was made with PTAssembler, the PanoTools GUI from Max Lions :-) (but I was new to it at the time and didn´t know how to correct verticals/horizontals).

And since much of the sky is fake, I´m not about to repeat it... I might get around to correcting it on the finised pano if I don´t lose too much image.

Dav, on June 17, 2006, said:

the program Photostitch given with a Canon digital cam seems to be good

Isaac Garcia, on June 18, 2006, said:

Dav: Yes, but only for simple panos ;-)

Isaac Garcia, on June 18, 2006, said:

Matias: Realviz Stitcher is overrated... it has some nice features, but it´s just not worth the price :-)

Waqas Usman, on July 10, 2006, said:

Isaac: I know how frustrating it is to fix the artifacts in a new panorama and later finding out a better way to do it, after you've spent hours on fixing it in a rudimentary way (which you now think of as a stupid thing; "to have wasted x hours just on fixing xyz!!"). And you don't want to go back and stitch that panorama again :) Fixing the sky is especially frustrating, which is apparently a "harmless" uniform thing, but is actually a very difficult thing to "keep it real"). You were lucky you didn't have a difficult sky there (or perhaps you painted it all to a simple, plain blue tone? But if the latter is true, you could have painted the whole sky in the same tone, I guess you wanted to keep the sun real...)

I was in UK (12 days for Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, North up to Inverness via Stirling, Perth, and down to Lochs and finally London), I took some 10,000 shots in 14 days, 80 panoramas; most of them had 25-80 shots each, and I have hardly managed a rough stitch of all of them :) Some of them are online at http://www.pbase.com/waqas/panoramas

Maxi, on October 10, 2006, said:

impresionante! que buen trabajo te tomaste :)

un efecto muy bueno seria que aparezcas dos o tres veces vos mismo en la foto ;) jejeje

saludos desde Argentina

Isaac Garcia, on November 1, 2006, said:

Bueno, con unipode se complican las cosas... sobre todo si no es muy tieso ;-)

amascolo, on February 22, 2007, said:

Bello! :) See my panorama: Link

My favorite: Golfo di Napoli by Night

CIAO!

Roman Sobolenko, on March 7, 2007, said:

Fine! It's stithed from 40 images? Great work! For this panorama I use not more then 10 photos. For 180 deg. or narrow panoramas (I more like this kind) usually is enough 5 or 6 images. What camera and lens you use?

feko, on April 6, 2007, said:

Yo tambien hago fotos panoramicas,tengo algunas, creo que buenas,algo mas realistas, me gustan mucho, voy a subir una que tengo de la plaza de valladolid,un saludo.

Reino Almarsund, on April 19, 2007, said:

Please. How do I view this panorama?

AndreasB, on April 26, 2007, said:

I loved to spend the time on Plaza Major during my stay in Madrid in 1991.

Patricia bcn, on May 5, 2007, said:

Muy bien hecha!! =D ;)

peterW, on June 19, 2007, said:

Hey love the image. You may be intersted in Panoramic Earth. This site uses an inbuilt viewer linking the iamges to an interactive map. Would be great to hear form you. Generally for panoramas I have used a canaon 30D with a 10mm lens and shoot about 8 images. I then use either Photovista (very easy, but does not cope too well with image rotation) or PTGui (very powerful, steep learning curve but worthwhile). Anyway, would be great to hear what you think of the site. There are currently (ah this fixes a date - June 2007) nearly 800 panoramas from around the world featured.

Karl Jonderko, on June 25, 2007, said:

nice panorama. i got also one from Plaza Mayor :) please visit my page, Tag: Madrid :)

greetings

Karl

Patricia bcn, on July 20, 2007, said:

Muy bonita!

Felicidades :)

Un saludo desde Barcelona :)

javier valverde, on February 1, 2008, said:

Excelentes y delicados trabajos. Enhorabuena y ánimo.

Javier Valverde

Isaac Garcia, on February 2, 2008, said:

@Javier: Gracias, tus fotos tambien estan muy bien :)

silvadias, on May 24, 2008, said:

very nice MARVEL

mariam.e, on May 25, 2008, said:

q linda foto...haz hecho un gran trabajo.

Isaac Garcia, on May 26, 2008, said:

@silvadias: Thanks!!

Isaac Garcia, on May 26, 2008, said:

@mariam.e: Gracias =^)

Isaac Garcia, on August 26, 2008, said:

@ketanfol: Thanks, I like some of your shots, too :-)

PHOTO PANORAMA MOSCOW, on November 10, 2008, said:

It is magnificent photo! You master panoramas! I also photographed panoramas. Panorama Russia

Isaac Garcia, on November 10, 2008, said:

@PHOTO_RUSSIA: Thank you, and very nicely done panos :)

BTW, I have some more panos on my blog: http://blog.coletassoft.com

Eva Kaprinay, on January 1, 2009, said:

EXCELLENT panorama! Cheers Eva

Felipe Salvador Ortiz-Caro, on January 1, 2009, said:

Muy buena la composicion. A mi tambien me gustan las panoramicas. Si me miras en Panoramio veras que yo tamben he sacado la Plaza Mayor, pero no tan complicada, te la has currado un monton, felicidades. Un saludo. Felipe

Isaac Garcia, on January 7, 2009, said:

@Eva Kaprinay: Thanks :)

Isaac Garcia, on January 7, 2009, said:

@Felipe Salvador Ortiz-Caro: Gracias :D Si algo aprendí con esta panorámica fue a no complicarme tanto la vida ;)

Braulio Garcia, on January 17, said:

Impresionante fotografia si señor, aunque yo solo soy un aficionado. un saludo desde Zas

Isaac Garcia, on January 28, said:

@Braulio Garcia: Gracias :)

Ivan Ruiz Venegas, on February 4, said:

Isaac, ¿cómo has podido hacer esta foto? Una cosa más, visita esta página web: http://www.panoramio.com/user/2563388 y verás mis fotos deja un comentario si quieres. Gracias.

Isaac Garcia, on February 4, said:

@Iván Ruiz: Esta en particular, con muuuucha paciencia y PTAssemboer: http://www.tawbaware.com/forum2/index.php

peszao, on March 7, said:

IMPRESIONANTE, FELICITACIONES, SALUDOS.

Isaac Garcia, on March 8, said:

@peszao: Gracias :)

stratis katrak., on March 13, said:

muy bella tu foto.

Felicitaciones

Isaac Garcia, on March 15, said:

@stratis katrak ¡¡Gracias!!

WERMUT, on March 29, said:

-VERY BEAUTIFUL PANORAMA!!!!_______________________________________________________!We invite you in our CONTEST FEBRUARY_

Namanhar, on March 29, said:

Preciosa panorámica. Enhorabuena!! Un saludo ^^

Isaac Garcia, on March 29, said:

@Namanhar: Gracias, tus fotos de Almeria también me gustan mucho :)

Nicolas Mertens, on March 30, said:

In case you don't know, many of your beautiful photos—including this magnificent panorama—are being used by boo.com. Unless you have an arrangement with this company, I think that it uses Panoramio's API in violation of the latter's Requirements and Terms of Use. On the other hand, it's possible that the company simply copy and paste the photos. In case you don't care, please ignore this message and just delete it :-)

Isaac Garcia, on March 30, said:

@Nicolas Mertens: Thanks for the heads up, I´ll see of I can make them take the images down.

Isaac Garcia, on March 30, said:

@Nicolas Mertens: Well, at least they do give credit, which is more than most rippers do ;)

Nicolas Mertens, on March 31, said:

Yes. Well, it was a "momentary lapse of reason" on my part. I just get a bit angry when people pick photos without asking. A question of civility. It's all gone the day after :-) Maybe you should delete this whole "conversation"! Greetings from Menorca.

Luis Miguel Cano, on April 15, said:

¿Habeis probado a procesar las imágenes con Autostitch ?: http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Isaac Garcia, on April 15, said:

@lmcanov: No desde que evolucionó en Autopano ;)

Además, Enblend y Smartblend avanzaron bastante más rapido que Autostitch :)

Ahmet Semen, on May 14, said:

A very nice image! Greetings from Turkey.

mandegan, 13 days ago, said:

Beautiful Photo, Amazing! Greetings from TOKYO