My FIRST virtual tour...what do you think ?

Roberto
I'm not getting the interactive image to play, the ptviewer loads and says its "ptviewer started" on the Status Bar of my browser, but all I see is the grey circle "splash" logo.

I'm on a Dial-Up connection at home, is it a big file?

The image on the first page, I assume its a cropped Equirectangular Projection, looks like the stitching is really good.

Is it really that yellow/orange in that room?

Douglas Aurand
Albuquerque, NM

Roberto,

Couple of things came to mind while looking at your first panorama. First was the colour, was the room really that orange? With all that internal lighting has the camera made a wrong decision on white balance? I hope you didn't mind but I took your source file and ran it thought Photoshop applying a "Cooling Filter (82)" to it. Was the colours of the room more like this http://www.bilsland.co.uk/FirstPano/5-logo.jpg ? To me the colours are now a lot easier on the eye, but maybe too much? The second thing that came to mind was the file size, almost 2MB. A bit of compression doesn't seem to harm the quality too much. My version of your panorama comes in at less than 500KB. Some well publicised compression guides can be found over at the world wide panorama site (http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/wwp/practical/Sizes.html).

Hope this helps,

Bob Bilsland.
http://www.panoramasunlimited.com

Hi Roberto,

I recommend setting the camera white balance with an expodisc, it saves huge time in post processing (www.expodisc.com) If you dont want to shell out anymore money just yet I would set the Camera white balance to anything other than auto.

Stitching seems good...what was your Aperture set at ? it should stay constant thru each shot....only change shutter speed if need be.

Dennis M. Carbo

Roberto,

I agree with Doug, you need to join this organization, I don't buy the money issue.

If you do join I'll give you my full comments as this work, while yes it's your first, is really not very good - So many things should/could be much better. Remember; you're asking for comments. If you really wants ones that will help you improve then get a bit of a thick skin and try to start developing a critical eye - you've got a lot of learning still to do. This pano is certainly not worth 150 sterling, not even close.

I'm a bit amazed that no one's pointed out yet that's the level is quite off. But, from my experience here and on forums in general if you say anything other than "nice work...but" you get cast as a negative person. It's happen to me here as a few forum members just don't want to hear critical comments.

Keep shooting, testing and using the internet to build your skills. And by the way, I like the start of your web site.

Best of Luck in your new endeavor.

Robert

Hi guys thanks for your comment,
as I wrote in another post unfortunately I cannot join ivrpa at the moment because of economic reason (I basicly spent all my money to buy the equipment, London is hard life!) but I will do as soon as I can.

Robert thanks for your advise... the shot as you said is s..t (of course is the first one) and I do not have experience as a photographer... the white balance is still a bit of a mistery for me if I have to be honest..

The quality of the image is not very good but think that a part the fact that I do not have experience I'm using a coolpix 8700 with an convertor(fc-e9).Anyway Robert feel free to give me your opinion expecially if negative... this is what I'm looking for.

Thanks a lot for the suppor of everybody and sorry again not be able to join the community at the moment..

Roberto

Hi Roberto,

Your first panorama is far better than my first one.
Go ahead!

Ricardo - USVP

Hi Doug,
no worries I do not have money but I'm a super seller.

I saw the concorrent and honestly speaking the quality of my vt is already much higher than them.. and the one that are better costs 4 times more.

Anyway I will try to do my best... I will let you know

Thanks,

Roberto