Hi Matt, thank you for your comments.
About the player I'm not sure what to say. I am not a programmer at all
and all experience I had before I started to make this UI was some very
basic Flash concepts, which are useful specially if you want to use
external flash files as parts of your interface (which now I see as a
very good practice). The whole player UI is scripted through a single
XML with a very straight forward syntax.
FYI, in this interface the thumbs (together with the mouse over effects)
are a single external flash. The rest (logo, exit sign plus some
scripting) are just within FPP. I wouldn't say the learning curve is
steep - it was my first FPP interface and it took me about one day and a
half do everything, including all photoshop work (not including the
panos, of course!). Scripting alone took me considerably less, and if I
were to do it again now I would certainly do it much faster. FPP is well
documented and has some useful examples. In my opinion it was well worth
the time.
At the time I made these panos (feb/2007) I was using a Canon Rebel 300d
with a Sigma 8mm. Six shots plus zenith and nadir. I think the most
important lesson was: do bracketing! Try to cover every detail, don't
leave anything outside the covered latitude. In most scenes my standard
bracketing was of 5 stops, but sometimes I went considerably further
(7-8 stops) just to catch the details on a single luminaire. The sunset
scene also demanded a lot. Of course latter came some good photoshop
masking job.
I think I never saw your panos, Matt.. I'll be glad to take a look and
help if I can!
Fabio.
matt_nolan_uaf wrote:
> Fabio,
>
> I just wanted to say that I found your viewer easy and pleasant to
> use. I think the fading feature adds a lot to the apparent tranquility
> of the location. Is it a steep learning curve to produce such a viewer?
>
> The panoramas themselves are first rate. I was very impressed with the
> ones in difficult lighting and difficult shadows and difficult trees.
> I wish I could make ones that nice. Perhaps you could give me some
> more info on your technique and equipment if you have the chance,
> either here or offline?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
>
>
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