Y-E-SSS!!!
Yes, Virginia! There IS “joy in Muddville” this day! The “Great Pano Project” is nearly completed as of this morning a half an hour ago.
Now to find a way to display it…
And I mean here on my monitor! I know it can be done; ‘did it once before on an earlier version. ‘Just have to remember which program I used to “get it up”, so to speak. :O)
THEN, I’ll pester the Lab about how much $ to print one. Like I said before, I’m perfectly prepared to find out I can’t afford my own art! (Lemme go do a li’l measuring…)
The 2 groups saved to the Desktop measure: 1st Grp, 10 images = 30523 x 3097, and the 2nd Grp = 48172 x 3097! (You do the math!) :O) Naw, I’ll tell ya; it’s a bit over 78.5Mb long! And THAT’s big, in ANYbody’s book!
After all the gyrations this thing has been thru, it’s down to an 8-bit Tiff file, and I think there’s one saved @ 300bpi. That’s the one I’ll talk to the printer about.
So what’s been accomplished here is as follows: From the Rt 301 Bridge to the far end of St. Clement’s I is over 20 miles; and it’s all there, in pretty fair detail. Considering it’s a healthy 5 miles across the Potomac, 6 in spots, I’m quite impressed with the detail. And it’s only taken me 27 days from 1st shot ’til this morning when I got the project “saved”. I’ve learned a boatload about High Dynamic Range Imaging, and more about pano shooting than I’m ever gonna need to know. And if, after talks w/the lab, I can see a way, there might even be an instance of personal profit available.
But it’s DONE, by harry! DONE!
I was gonna let this (post) “lie fallow” for a while, stew it over , maybe add an “excerpt” image to it. Then “blow it on” y’all; but thinkin’ it over won’t change anything, and whatever I want to add can come later. So, shucks, HERE ’tis!
W/ CHEERS!
RD
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