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Although Walsoorden is a very small village where you can do nothing except cycling and walking, it has a small harbor which is very loved by ship spotters as the ships from and to Antwerp pass extremely close.
When the Maersk Madrid, the largest container carrier as of today, sailed to Antwerp, a month or two ago, over a hundred ship photographers were present here.
This pano starts at the small harbor of Walsoorden. Just north of it was the former ferry port of Perkpolder which had a regular car ferry service to Kruiningen. This ferry was abolished in 2003 when the 6.6 km long Westerschelde tunnel near Terneuzen was put into service. Today, there are plans to transform the Perkpolder harbor into a marina.
Turning over to the middle and right, we look over the big Walsoorden meander straight to the beginning of Antwerp harbor. But before entering the locks and docks, the ships have to take another curve called the meander of Bath.
It was high tide about an hour ago. Tide difference is 4.5 to 5.5 m. Currents can be as high as 9 km/h.
Canon G1Xmark2, 18 pics, 59.22mm (112.5 mm KB), iso 160, f 6.3, 1/1000s, stitched with Hugin.
Now Hugin once again made a mess of it so I replaced all match points chosen by the stitcher. Also I was a bit shocked that Hugin changed the color of the photographs into a far too pronounced blue. I corrected this as good as I could. Does anyone has experienced something similar?
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To the problem that Hugin changes colors, I can not say anything, I used PanoramaStudio. In my opinion the colors now ok.
Something unfortunate ist the cutoff head at 139°.
Anyway, I cannot understand how you get to quality here. Have you sharpened severel times? Or made a heavy crop? Could be interesting to know.
So how did I make this one:
1.original pics: 16x9>4362x2448 px
2.hugin pano: 30000x1203 px, 89.8Mb tiff which retained 89% of the original height of view of the pics after some cutting was done in the stitcher, so not much crop. However, I got a very blue but very sharp result. In preview (Apple), I corrected the temperature, increased sepia a little, increased brightness and contrast a little too. Then I downsized in preview to 12465x500 12.8Mb tiff and did some sharpening (not much). From this I saved a jpeg file 2.5MB which is this pano.
Comparison with pano 21881:
1.original pics: 16x9>4362x2448 px
2.Hugin pano 7071x500 jpeg 852KB but here I retained 64% of the original height of the view so much more crop. No sharpening and no corrections.
Now I wonder why this Walsoorden Hugin tiff pano was only 1203 px height while I normally have a tiff file with 1900 to 2200 px height from which I have to crop and downsize significantly? Anyway the end result seems quite good. It is trial and error and I have seen that end results can differ significantly.
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