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Hello Diliff. Please, I know you like church interiors, then could you fix the perspective distorcion and remove the blown out with magenta fringes in the windows of this picture for a QI status? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:04, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

• Hi ArionEstar. Sure, I can have a look, but which picture? You didn't link to anything! Diliff (talk) 23:09, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
  • Sorry! Hjdiwaodnaoxjakdkcjsk! This picture. 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:13, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
    • What do you think that? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 23:47, 16 July 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Hello Diliff. I am from Persian Wikipedia; so sorry if I have an awful language. I just wanna to appreciate your work for Wikipedia especially photos. Nearly all of your photos are wonderful and very beautiful. keep doing good job! :) Farshid . Talk 09:37, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

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Multirow panorama

Hi Diliff, as recommended by you I bought myself the Nodal Ninja 3 Mk II and now I'm planning my first high res church interior. The only picture we actually have of this church is this one and I believe this church definitely deserves a better one. Do you have some kind of howto on how to take a multirow panorama of a church interior? What do I especially have to pay attention to? Which lens and which focal length would you recommend? Actually I only have the EF 24-70mm f/4 L IS USM and the EF 50mm f/1.8 on my EOS 6D. How do I focus correctly? How many rows/columns should I chose? So many questions. I hope you can help me a little bit. Thank you very much in advance. --Code (talk) 05:36, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

• For a 6D, I'd recommend using about 50mm, the same as I do. The 50mm f/1.8 should be fine really, that's my 'sweet spot' focal length for most of my interior panoramas. In portrait format, I use 5 columns by 3 rows with about 20% overlap between images. That is about the widest you can get without extreme perspective distortion and you end up with a roughly square image (but compositionally, there's usually more ceiling than floor). For focusing, don't focus on the background. It will work but you won't maximise depth of field by doing that because with a stopped down aperture like f/13, you actually focus beyond infinity if you focus near infinity. What you want to do is use the hyperfocal distance (google it, there's a lot of info about what it is, and calculators to find the ideal focus distance for your lens and camera). It's usually about 10 metres away for a 50mm lens at f/13 I think. It doesn't have to be focussed exactly at 10 metres. But the closer to the ideal hyperfocal distance, the better really. Hope that helps to get you started. Feel free to ask more questions if I haven't answered everything! Diliff (talk) 17:30, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

• Thank you very much for now, I will give it a try. I think I will have some more questions concerning the postprocessing (projection etc. - I don't have PTGui but only Hugin and Photoshop). --Code (talk) 17:55, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

• I don't think it should matter too much whether you use PTGui or Hugin, but I can't give you specific advice about how to use Hugin. It should work quite similarly though. Both have the same projection options. Diliff (talk) 21:31, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Code, I use Hugin and Photoshop so can help if you have questions. I haven't, however, managed to get it to do HDR stitches like PtGui can. I think there are unresolved bugs in that area. -- Colin (talk) 22:06, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Ah I didn't realise it didn't work in Hugin. One other minor difference that I noticed between Hugin and PTGui is that PTGui can recognise the HDR brackets and assume they are aligned (or recognises them as sets in terms of how to generate the output, but still finds control points individually if they were taken hand-held). The benefit of this is that it allows you to shoot a bracket where the lowest exposure is so dark that it is black for almost everything except a few points of light here and there, like the highlights in stained glass or lightbulbs etc. Normally it would be impossible to find good control points in those scenes (not every segment has these highlights either), but PTGui intelligently looks at the control points for all of the bracketed exposures together so it can find the right control points. I don't know how Hugin treats HDR bracketed images, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do that. If it doesn't, it wouldn't be possible to simply load all the images of the same exposure into Hugin and stitch the brackets separately because it probably wouldn't find the control points in the dark images for a scene like a dark church with stained glass (the stained glass is so much brighter than the interior, so to expose for the glass would mean the interior is basically black). Also, finding control points in Hugin takes soooo much longer than PTGui. I haven't used Hugin much but when I did, a panorama that took about 15-20 seconds to find control points in PTgui took about 5 minutes in Hugin. Hugin's algorithms seem very thorough but very slow. Anyway, the alternative for doing HDR stitching with Hugin is to pre-tonemap the images before importing them into Hugin. When I started doing HDR panoramas, I did this with some success, but had issues with consistency between images because each segment of the panorama was processed a bit differently and then it sometimes didn't blend well. But you might have to try that if you're not able to get Hugin to output a 32 bit TIFF image, or even a bracketed stitch (a separate stitched file for each exposure, which you can then import into HDR software like Lightroom or Photomatix). OK, hope this helps. It was a bit of a ramble but it's a complex subject. I guess not all software plays nicely with each other. My workflow does a good job but it relies on having PTGui and Lightroom. Diliff (talk) 08:33, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

I think someone on FP (can't remember who) managed to create an HDR using Hugin in a non-standard way. I think they saved the three exposures into separate folders so that one folder contained all the mid-exposures, another the low-exposures, and so on. Then use Hugin on the mid one and create a project and stitch. Then copy the project file into the other folders, fix up any path issues in the file (it is just text), and repeat. You then get three large images you can generate an HDR from using some other software such as Photoshop, Photomatix, or exposure blend using enfuse. I use Smartblend to do the final stitching with Hugin, and one thing I've noticed is that it will often stitch in a slightly different place from one use to another. Almost like there's a randomness to it. So I'm concerned that might lead to HDR artefacts when the seams aren't perfect. Do you still use Smartblend when doing HDR or just PTGui's built in algorithm? Perhaps I should look at HDR with Hugin again, it was a while since I last looked and it might be fixed now. Hugin is slower than PTGui and I find the stitching with Smartblend to be the slowest of all. But I'm also stitching 16-bit tiffs rather than JPGs cause I hate throwing away information too early, and I don't have sixteen panoramas taken each day! -- Colin (talk) 11:00, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

Ahh yeah that could work using the control points from the well-exposed set, but I assume you'd have to rename the files from the other exposures to match the filenames that Hugin had used. A time consuming process but one that should work. Stitching with Smartblend is slow whether you're using PTGui or Hugin so I generaly use PTGui's blender by default and it works fine for 95% of my panoramas with minimal parallax problems. If there are issues, I export two copies - one blended with PTGui and one with Smartblend. Sometimes the Smartblend version is fine and I'll simply use that, other times it introduces different errors elsewhere in the image instead (parallax errors can't be eliminated, only minimised creatively or shifted to a less detailed area). If that's the case, I'll just use a feathered selection (using Photoshop) to copy the areas I want to keep and paste them into the other version. It's rare that I have to go that far but it happens sometimes. The image of Albert Bridge from the middle of the road is one that comes to mind. There were minor parallax errors because I actually had to get off the road half way through and go back again a minute later after the cars had passed. I still generally stitch JPGs rather than 16 bit TIFFs because there's minimal loss of detail. The exception seems to be areas of no detail like skies. The process of conversion into a 32 bit TIFF seems to exaggerate noise and jpeg artifacts in the sky so even if I can't see any jpeg artifacts in the original jpeg files, they tend to show up quite obviously. Another thing I've noticed recently is that PTGui doesn't seem to interpolate particularly well. If I output a lower resolution image (lets say 8000x6000 pixels), I get strange aliasing (larger than pixel-sized though) on certain sloping lines that I don't get with larger resolution outputs (20,000x15000ish). So outputting maximum size and then downsampling in Photoshop is much better (but takes much longer to stitch). I wonder if PTGui, rather than stitching at larger sizes and then downsampling at the last step, actually pre-downsamples and then warps and stitches the low resolution images. Not ideal if you want a lower res output but with maximum quality. An example is this image. It tends to rear its head mostly in areas of high contrast like the edges of the light shades. Re-stitching could fix it, but it's a pain to go back through all my images and re-stitch (and have to do all the adjustment brush work too).Diliff (talk) 12:48, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

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Commons:WikiProject Sports

Hello, Diliff! You're welcome to join the Commons WikiProject Sports. Good luck! --NaBUru38 (talk) 23:57, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

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The north pole

It has no fragments of pollution that would reflect light as in most places on the globe. It is something that, as pilots we see rather clearly from the cockpit, yet most photos you see, of sunsets/sunrises from just about anywhere on earth, do not reflect the true color of the event due in whole to the particular distortion your camera and our eyes see when looking across a sky filled with human waste, something the photo I submitted does not contain. Cheers! --WPPilot (talk) 12:20, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Featured Picture Nomination

Hello. I just wanted to let you know that the image St Patrick's Cathedral Lady Chapel, Dublin, Ireland - Diliff.jpg, which was created or uploaded by you, has been nominated for featured picture status; have a look at the nomination page. Thank you and good luck! -- Code (talk) 05:25, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

File:St Peter's Church Nave 2, Drogheda, Ireland - Diliff.jpg

Had a look at that image. Very nice as always, but placing yourself above the Pope and below Saint Peter is a bit cheeky in a catholic church :D. Also what lens did you use for this one? Looks awfully sharp, and the arch is great. Do you ever get your images printed? --DXR (talk) 16:38, 15 August 2015 (UTC)

• It took me some time to understand what you meant, but I get it now. :-D I didn't realise that I'd caught my reflection in the organ mirror! And for the second image, I used my 70-300mm f/4-5.6L IS lens at 135mm - the same lens I used for the portraits for the EU Parliament project. It's actually extremely sharp stopped down and as a bonus, has the same nodal point as my 50mm Sigma f/1.4 lens so if I want to switch for a detail view of an interior, I don't even have to adjust my panoramic head settings. Quite a handy lens. Diliff (talk) 21:17, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
  • Ah, thanks. I thought that it looked longer than a 85mm. I hope it's not boring you to death by now, but what was the setup of that shot? I guess that you would have about 10°x4 up/down and 7°x5 to the sides? If that were the case, it would probably be either impossible or very bothersome on the smaller NNs, so with forced steps of 15° up/down I reckon that 100mm or so is the longest that would work. It is a bit odd how for this type of photography the sharpness of a lens at f/11 or f/16 is much more important than normally and good slower lenses such as 70-300s and 90-105mm Macros suddenly become really attractive. --DXR (talk) 14:22, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
    • You guessed exactly right, it was 5 columns by 4 rows. But my old Nodal Ninja 3ii didn't have steps on the vertical arm, so you could set any degree increments you wanted (the only problem was that it required a lot of pressure on the knob to tighten it enough to stop the arm drooping slowly during a long exposure). Only the rotator base had steps, but you could choose to ignore them and select any horizontal rotation you wanted too. With my bigger Nodal Ninja M1-L, I have 7.5 degree steps on the vertical arm but it is still possible to lock it in between the 7.5 degree steps - it's not as secure and if it was bumped, it could slip down to the next step, but it is possible. So I've never really found it a problem to do panoramas with large focal lengths. You're right though, almost any decent lens will be quite capable of great results when stopped down to f/11 to f/16. And because there's less wide angle perspective induced distortion, with some downsampling it actually looks sharper than images taken with my Sigma 50mm f/1.4, which should be the sharpest lens I own. Diliff (talk) 20:40, 17 August 2015 (UTC)

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New lens for panorama photography

Hi Diliff, I'm planning to buy myself a new lens for panorama photography and I would like to ask you for your opinion. The choice is either to buy a new 50mm prime lens (the same Sigma as yours or the Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L) or the Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro lens. I'm not sure what would be the better one. What do you think? As you might know I have a Canon EOS 6D and the NN3 Mk II pano head. Thank you very much in advance. --Code (talk) 17:44, 28 August 2015 (UTC)

I thought I'd ask you before I nominated this ...

My picture, 2014

Your very similar picture, 2009

Dave,

First, I just want to say that I appreciate your two oppose !votes on those images of mine that MMxx nominated for FP; you were absolutely right that they just didn't have that something extra (especially on the Kew Gardens vista; I had thought about it myself but basically realized that, cool though the perspective is, there's basically nothing at the center where you'd like to see something). I don't nominate my own images for FP unless I'd vote for them myself, and in those cases I wouldn't have (assuming they'd been taken by someone else, that is ... I was flattered so I voted for them in those nominations. And, as recent experience shows, sometimes that works (actually, I considered that one something I might nominate in the future).

Anyway, I have been planning to nominate this one. I have noticed, however, it's very similar to one that you took almost five years ago and has since been recognized as a featured picture. And I'm sure people will point that out (I can also see some other things potential opposers might find: the slight posterization on some of the flowers, and the (apparent) crop that cuts that little corner off (It's not a crop—I couldn't stand any further back without stepping in the flowers myself, and it wouldn't have been the same from the next pathway back. I think you understand this).

So, do you think both of them could be FPs? Or would someone suggest a delist and replace? I'd feel bad if that happened and you hadn't been consulted first (I mean, I could see that people might see mine as warmer overall and sunnier, but I certainly didn't take it with the intention of trying to show you up ... I only realized that your similar picture existed after I uploaded mine). Let me know if you have time.

Oh my God! I forgot to sign this ... Daniel Case (talk) 04:25, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

• Hi Daniel,

Happy for you to nominate it. It's no problem, perhaps they can both be FPs anyway. They are very similar but it's not unheard of to have more than one of the same subject. I'm traveling at the moment and only have access to Wikipedia on my phone so I can't compare the two images in detail but I assume yours is better. ;-) Diliff (talk) 05:28, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Hope you being on the move means you're out in the field getting some more great pics ... Daniel Case (talk) 18:49, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Photographer's Barnstar
	Hello David. After all these years here, I would have to say that you are, unconditionally, the best photographer on the Wiki projects. Your "in depth" understanding of photography is truly admirable and I have learned much from that insight, over the years. Thank you & keep up the good work. Cheers! WPPilot . Talk 19:39, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

• Hi WPPilot. Thank you for the kind words. It does mean a lot, considering we haven't always agreed on some of the reviews. I'm a bit confused as your timestamp for the message says you posted it in July, but it was posted in September! Anyway, thank you again. I do appreciate that you've had the maturity to take constructive feedback on board - not every participant here could say the same!! :-) Diliff (talk) 11:25, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

• • Hi, your welcome. Sorry about the date, my oversight its been fixed. If one pay's attention in the receipt of constructive insight from professionals then you learn and grow. Your on target and have paid a lot of attention to detail, I respect that regardless of singular nuances from time to time. Your a true pro and well, a wise man once said "not every participant here could say the same" that would apply here as well. Cheers! --WPPilot (talk) 00:44, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

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How you do?

Hey David, I was undermining, who you do your shots, did you do something like that: [1], or other processes are included? -- RTA 03:36, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

David-- RTA 18:08, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

AhH! Sorry Rodrigo, I forgot to reply. Well, I don't use exactly that technique. I use HDR which involves different exposure lengths. That gives me more dynamic range of exposure than a single exposure averaged. It also has a similar effect of reducing the noise though, because it uses only the best part of the exposure and noise usually only occurs in the underexposed areas. I do obviously use stitching to get better resolution though. Diliff (talk) 19:09, 2 October 2015 (UTC)

heheheh I wrote the answer and forgot to save...

Humm, HDR is not working for me to de-noisy (see this), and that's why I was asking, this stack process takes a ridiculous amount of time, and data.

And some situations I don't know what do, this I don't know what to do with those stained glasses, I have a perfect exposure photo for them, but it's ridiculous dark.

Tks Diliff. -- RTA

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File:Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland - Jan 2011 crop.jpg

This image, which is the one currently used by the WP article, is a cropped version of your image. Although the crop is mentioned on the page, the attribution/etc is all wrong. I don't think Soerfm should get any attribution credit for merely cropping, which isn't sufficient to generate a new "work of copyright". Btw, my own meagre effort is uploaded at File:Eilean Donan Panorama 2015-08-15.jpg. It was taken en route, rather than carefully planned to get great light. -- Colin (talk) 21:57, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

• Thanks for letting me know. I can see some benefit in the tighter crop although it really doesn't make a huge difference and I prefer the original wider one, compositionally. I'm tempted to simply revert that change in the article, but you're right, the attribution credit on the derivative version should be changed too. Anyway, my photo of Eilean Donan was actually just taken en route too - completely by coincidence I managed to get that dawn light. It was midwinter, so the sunrise was pretty late as it was, and I just happened to be there at the right place at the right time. Diliff (talk) 11:03, 11 October 2015 (UTC)

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Help (2)

Hi Diliff. Help me: Could you remove the noise and chroma noise here? It's FP for you? 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 20:02, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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ANU

Hi, I see your open question on ANU, however I feel too much has been written there and the most relevant points have been made more than once. To continue just feels like feeding trolling.

Just keep in mind that it is not my ANU thread and I was not the one setting out to play poke the bear. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 09:29, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

See [2] and [3]. The venue as VP instead of ANU doesn't make much difference. Jee 12:35, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

You proved my point by griefing me here. Find something else to do to entertain yourself, rather than following around and poking the gay guy. Thanks --Fæ (talk) 13:23, 7 December 2015 (UTC)