Hi all,

I have been lurking the forums here for a while now; Lots of very knowledgeable people here producing some incredible work.

Anyway, I have recently decided to throw my hat in to the ring and try and pull some commercial clients for virtual tours.

This is my first attempt at building a tour, constructive feedback is more than welcome and highly appreciated. I would love to develop both the photography and krpano aspects of my skills to a professional level so comments on both are again greatly appreciated.
The client is a friend of mine and I am using this to form part of my portfolio to attract clients.
Here is the virtual tour:
The Convent Gallery
Cheers,
Marcus

Thank you all for taking the time to comment and make suggestions. HDR is a new technique for me, I have tried it a couple of times without any really good results. With the shots in the tour I struggled with trying to get a good balanced exposure, it was a real struggle with the overcast blown out day it was outside.

I will start working on my HDR technique, trying to produce images without looking fake. Does anyone have any suggestions for producing top HDR images? What software should I be using? Photomatix (HDR or Enfuse?) or Photoshop HDR?

Finally, what are you thoughts on the overall layout of the tour? Is it "slick" enough to sell as a commercial product? Is it lacking anything or does it contain too much?

Thank you again for your feedback and comments.

Cheers,
Marcus.

Zitat von »Richard«

My only other comment is that I'm not a fan of scrolling thumbnail galleries. I think they confuse everyone except geeks. There's plenty of room across the bottom, so I'd just line up the thumbs there. But I know I'm probably in the minority on that idea.

Ok, I have changed the scrolling thumbs and implemented a custom thumb solution down the bottom. What do you think?

http://www.view360vr.com/convent.html

I had a look at processing the raw files +/- 1 but the highlights were too overblown to save anything. I will reshoot a couple of the shots with +/- 1.5 next time I am there.

Figuring out I need a new computer for PTGui to process faster :)

Zitat von »Richard«

Beautifully done. Perfect interface imo. :-)

Cheers Richard, I am pretty happy with it.

Zitat von »maaike«

You don't need PTGui for the 'HDR'. Just use enfuse to fuse the images. It looks very good! If you're using windows, you can try downloading enfuseGUI. It's free (ptGUI is not). First shoot the pictures, then fuse and then stitch them. That's the fastest way.
You can also use hugin together with enfuse, they're both free.

Nice panorama's!

Thanks maaike. Developing my skills in both photography and panoramas on the run :)

I have been looking at Photomatix and using PTGui to do the enfusing, results look promising so far.