Where have I been?

Colin MacDonald said:

Phil Cook said:

A little teaser for you...

Let's see who can crack this one.

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/Oct07/IMG_3401.jpg

Creag Meagaidh, with the Easains in the background.

(Reasoning: the sun must be broadly to the south because you'd aim to
be on the summit around midday / early afternoon, therefore the
picture is looking westish, which rules out the Cairngorms. There's
snow in the distance, but not where you are so something higher that
you is over that way, suggesting the Aonachs and the Ben. And your
'crack' hint suggests Creag something. And the hills in the near
background look a lot like the Easains.)

That's because they are the Easains (This Yin and That Yin) here is a
pano taken later that day. I took a pano earlier too but this one is
better with the sun on the loch.

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/pans/sgriodain.htm

No snow yet, just clouds over every other hill but the ones around me.
:-)

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>A little teaser for you...
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> Let's see who can crack this one.
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> http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/Oct07/IMG_3401.jpg

The only (?) 1045m Munro I can find is Beinn Iuthairn Mhor but I thought
you could see Binnein Mor and Na Gruagaichean in the background in the
picture and that doesn't fit. But definitely (north)wets Highlands.

Surprisingly it wasn't that wets :-) I had one day where I mooched
about at low level due to early rain. Six Munros in four walks, but
only half of them with views.

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..or should it be 1046m? In which case Cruach Ardrain or Chno Dearg. Never
been anywhere near either of them (summitwise) but I'll go for the former
seeing as someone's done the latter - lets say looking at Ben More and
Stob
Binnein? Hmmm, they would be much higher...perhaps...

Ben More and Stob Binnien would be rather more pointy, but you have
the height correct. So somebody else (Idris) was correct.

So the bigger hill in the distance is Ben Nevis and the lower pointy bit
sticking out left on the slope of Stob Coire Easain is probably Stob Ban ?
At least I was looking in the right direction then.

--
"Beannachd leibh"

Theo
www.theosphotos.fotopic.net

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I was wearing the urw cap on this walk but it doesn't fit my
rather large bonce too well and kept getting knocked off when I was
using the camera, and it did blow off once or twice.

You must get one with the peak at the back like the professionals :-)
--
Bill Grey

Bill Grey said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

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I was wearing the urw cap on this walk but it doesn't fit my
rather large bonce too well and kept getting knocked off when I was
using the camera, and it did blow off once or twice.

You must get one with the peak at the back like the professionals :-)

I was doing that with the old hat, it's only when the camera is on the
tripod it is really a problem. It was comfy and secure either way
round. In these days of long wide angle lenses I don't have to worry
about the peak getting in the way if I'm shoting hand held. I have a
few pictures taken with my old pentax MX with a 24mm on where the brim
of my Akubra makes an appearance :-(
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie

Bill Grey said:

In message <[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I was wearing the urw cap on this walk but it doesn't fit my
rather large bonce too well and kept getting knocked off when I was
using the camera, and it did blow off once or twice.

You must get one with the peak at the back like the professionals :-)

I was doing that with the old hat, it's only when the camera is on the
tripod it is really a problem. It was comfy and secure either way
round. In these days of long wide angle lenses I don't have to worry
about the peak getting in the way if I'm shoting hand held. I have a
few pictures taken with my old pentax MX with a 24mm on where the brim
of my Akubra makes an appearance :-(
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie

Phil Cook said:

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/pans/sgriodain.htm

That's a cracking pano Phil, practically a complete 3D image! What kind of
camera did you take that with? A glass sphere with an internal spherical
sensor and the camera inside the sensor? ;-)

Seriously though, how many pics and what focal length? And did you stitch it
with PTGUI? Or was something else responsible for converting it into that
format with the really neat compass directions on the bottom?

I'm really very impressed!

Pity about the bright sky in part of the photo though, but that's generally
unavoidable. But I have heard that there's a new feature in PTGUI for
dealing with stitching HDR images. Haven't experimented with that yet so I
don't know anything about it, but it could have a lot of potential given the
wide exposure range of a typical pano. The downside is the number of images
you'd have to take.

Paul
--
http://www.wilderness-wales.co.uk/

Paul Saunders said:

Phil Cook said:

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/pans/sgriodain.htm

That's a cracking pano Phil, practically a complete 3D image! What kind of
camera did you take that with? A glass sphere with an internal spherical
sensor and the camera inside the sensor? ;-)

Seriously though, how many pics and what focal length? And did you stitch it
with PTGUI? Or was something else responsible for converting it into that
format with the really neat compass directions on the bottom?

It's a 400D with a 10-22 at 10mm. Eight vertical shots with the arm of
the pano mount horizontal and then four and four at 45(ish) degrees to
fill in the zenith and nadir. The compass rose is then added to cover
the tripod and mount in the nadir shots. Yes it is PTgui.

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I'm really very impressed!

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Pity about the bright sky in part of the photo though, but that's generally
unavoidable. But I have heard that there's a new feature in PTGUI for
dealing with stitching HDR images. Haven't experimented with that yet so I
don't know anything about it, but it could have a lot of potential given the
wide exposure range of a typical pano. The downside is the number of images
you'd have to take.

But it is trivial to take them once you have the thing set up. It's
just move click move click as much as you want, the shots have been
paid for you just keep pressing the shutter. The only area where it
gets tricky is with clouds moving across the sky but you can get round
that. In fact the four up shots have no control points, I have just
alligned them using the panorama editor in PTgui.

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/pans/coverage.jpg

As it happens I have shots of the bright parts of the sky and loch
stopped down a few stops. When I get a circular tuit I may see what I
can do. I also have a hand held shot of the ground beneath the tripod.

It is presented using PTviewer. I have specified the initial angle of
view and tilt to as to include the edge of the compass rose. I can do
more with it to have hotspots to give hill names and links to other
views, as in my other flat scroll panoramas, it's just a matter of
time to get the work done...
--
Phil Cook, last hill: Geal Charn above Glen Markie

Phil Cook said:

Paul Saunders wrote:

Concerning my panoram setup.

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Seriously though, how many pics and what focal length?

It's a 400D with a 10-22 at 10mm. Eight vertical shots with the arm of
the pano mount horizontal and then four and four at 45(ish) degrees to
fill in the zenith and nadir.

I've taken a few shots of the setup of my Nodal Ninja sph-2

http://www.p-t-cook.freeserve.co.uk/pans/setup.jpg

You can just about see that the white spot on the horizontal arm is a
spirit level and that the camera arm has a rotation scale. The base
has a rotation scale too and is click stopped at each eighth of a
turn.