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This is one big boat
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 8:57 pmby Slider
Whipped down to Luggage Point to grab a few shots of the Diamond Princess for a friend today.
This is a stitched pano of 8 portrait images taken with Nikkor 200. Used a tripod too
The original sized picture is here but be warned it is still 900k with maximum compression but you can see the detail in the lifeboats doorways etc. Quite interesting I thought.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v217/sliderr/Diamondprincess.jpg
Posted:
Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:14 pmby Zeeke
I dont think the boat is big enough... need something a bit bigger then that!
Tim
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:18 pmby ghost
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:20 pmby mudder
Amazing engineering, and to think this city floats on water
Hmmm, not many lifeboats when you consider how many people must be on the thing...
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:23 pmby sirhc55
113,000 tons of pure beauty - and a great portrait of the lady
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 9:46 pmby BBJ
Mark, you have done a great job here of this beast, she looks great and the pano worked very well, well done.
Cheers
John
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:33 pmby skippy
Wow, nice pic. That would make a good print.
How big's the file with no compression? Must be huge!
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:42 pmby Slider
Thanks folks.
Skippy, it came in at 5.5mb and measures 295cm x 95cm. Would make a nice big print
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:45 pmby skippy
Thought it'd be bigger than that. Could easily see it as a 50" or 60" pano print. Wouldn't want to pay for the frame though.
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:51 pmby marcotrov
Yeah Mark the thing was anchored off Yorkey's Knob beach in Cairns, too big to go into harbour, and was ferrying 1 -2 thousand people over to the harbour for a quick visit in cairns. It's ginormous.
Nice image. How are you finding the d200? Have you got the battery grip yet? I'm really hanging out for mine.
cheers
marco
Posted:
Fri Jan 06, 2006 10:55 pmby Slider
marcotrov wrote:Yeah Mark the thing was anchored off Yorkey's Knob beach in Cairns, too big to go into harbour, and was ferrying 1 -2 thousand people over to the harbour for a quick visit in cairns. It's ginormous.
Nice image. How are you finding the
d200? Have you got the battery grip yet? I'm really hanging out for mine.
cheers
marco
I wish
I still have the trusty D70s
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Fri Jan 06, 2006 11:15 pmby Dug
To quote Billy Connolly:
"Ocean cruising is like being in a 5 star prison with the added chance of drowning"
Nice shot, great stitching, I still would hate to be stuck on one of those things.
A mate cruised for a week he reckoned the best conversation he had was with the guy servicing the coffee machine.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 4:29 amby Big V
Slider, you have done well with the stiching...great shot
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 6:57 amby Killakoala
That is a huge boat. Just imagine the nightmare it would be organising victuals on it.
THe pano treatment works really well for this image, but i'm noticing a slight curve in the boat, or is that just my eyes?
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:16 amby birddog114
Great job! you've done well!!!!!!
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 9:16 amby Slider
Thanks Folks.
Steve, By way of comparison, below is a shot cropped to similar but almost full width taken on full zoom with the Nikkor 18-70
1/800 @ f/8
I think there is a difference. The rear of the ship seems bigger in the pano.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 2:42 pmby Killakoala
It looks bent in that pic too, so it must be an optical illusion with my eyes. I need to get some new ones.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 7:23 pmby nito
So thats where I parked it. Thanks
Very nice shot.
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Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:39 pmby ozimax
Great stitching and great image of a monster
