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Lighting Painting + Pano…

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Everyone should have gotten the email now and a small handful of us have confirm the attendance.

Do bring your own laptop if you have and load them up with the pano software that you use often or have used Hugin, PTGui, Pano2QTVR, Pleinpot or others.

I’ll show my workflow as the tutorial may be confusing for some, even the video tutorials which I know may be too small for viewing or to your liking.

The weather these few weeks has not be predictable as we all know how Singapore is like thus we’ll start morning 10am for the clear blue skies we are having for the past week, and hope it lasts through Sunday.

We’ll visit 2 places then gather for a hands-on session as I know the actual taking of the photos will be very easy after we all hae the setup “calibrated” and those with the Nodal Ninja will be even quicker! Trust me! It’s the stitching that will take up time. I’ll hunt for a good place, currently 2 places in mind, a friend’s photo studio or a LAN shop kind of setting places as we won’t want our laptops to run out of juice.

I foresee we’ll be taking and stitching at the same time too so battery life will be very much sacred. haha

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Check out this site http://www.jenstark.com/ It’s really inspirational and “tireless”.

Check out the cool tools that’s used to make these here.

Experimental. I would be moving this site to more of experimental photography techniques that I have tried out and of course, 360 pano will still be very much a big part of it.

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A suprising not too bad 180 pano, taken with my O2 Zinc built in camera. Was waiting for some stuffs to be comepleted nad had nothing to do so had this idea, took out my phone, snap, turn, snap turn and 27 shots later…it worked!

oh, I am so unshaved! but hey, it’s Sat working day…tiring…boring…

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Enter the Village. This area is covered with great looking building I couldn’t get enough of!

…and that’s it, my full coverage of 10 panos. Tang Dynasty will be remember with all these panos. All 10 panos are consolidated on a single page here.

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What looks like to be an inn where people could rest or have their meals. The roof of the internals is simply beautiful.

I added a short article on why HDR in the Tech section. Direct link here.

It’s essential in 360 Panos. Try it, learn it.

I’ve gotten mails at 360<nospam>@itcow.com asking on certain techniques I use and software I use. I try to reply to them all but at times, they do get flagged as spam, it’ll be a lot better that you register on this site and post your comments directly on the comment/pano/articles you have questions on, ‘ll reply there directly. This way, we share the knowledge to those who may want to ask the same thing.  A forum is an overkill for now as traffics show more viewers daily than “askers”.

Take care and happy pano-ing.

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The Bridge is one of the main structure anyone will see upon entering the Tang Dynasty.  Today, it is vandalised and old. I chose another angle so as not to see it’s current ugly state.

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What was once a photo processing counter and I presume the main ticketing office is now but ruins. Broken wood and shattered glasses litter the whole places with pigeons making their home all above.

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Paintings on wall that seems to depict the arrival or departure of an important person of the TangDynasty Empire at his capital. Officials kneel and bow with guards surrounding the sedan.

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View from The Pagoda. Overseeing the whole Tang Dynasty, the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE) and Jurong Industrial Estates.

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Among the greens lies the lake leading up to the Pagoda.  Beautiful carvings on stone-like structure surrounding the pagoda seems to be of ancient beauties.

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Entrance to th “Forbidden City” of Tang Dynasty. The high walls and the waters surrounding this empire that was once a real tourists attraction is now run down and quiet.