Tal is kitesurfing in one of the best kite spots in the world – Sea Of Galilee, Israel

I travel a lot in my life and had a chance to kite in different spots around the world. But there is something different about Israel beaches…
Read More…

Have you Tried The New Cabrinha Nomad? A few Facts about the Newest Cabrinha kite 2010

Thierry is sharing his riding experience with the new Cabrinha Nomad 2010. Is it really different? Why?
Learn more about the powerful new toy from Cabrinha
Read More…

Jeremie Tronet Surfed his first 8 min wave on over 1 km with a longboard in France

"The wave just came, very small first and started to brake and grow slowly along the shore. I then paddled in stood up and was able to surf for real on this small wave pushing over 50 surfers, kayaks and more…"
Read More…

The big Kiteaway Challenge event 2009 on a Yacht at the Sea of Galilee

The idea for Kiteaway Challenge developed from Amit’s constant search for new and exciting things in the world of surfing… and you won’t believe how exciting they are!
Read More…

Jeremie Tronet Kitesurfing adventure in Ilha Do Guajiru, Brazil

Jeremie Tronet in Ilha Do Guajiru. My Latest DVD is now available online at www.ilha-do-guajiru.com. "Hi Guys, my latest DVD "discovering ilha do Guajiru" is now available online…"
Read More…

Riders Match Online 2009

After two successful seasons, Riders Contest is becoming Riders Match : Online World Contest.
The new website is launched by Wax Up in association with Yahoo! Sport and become a real community of Extreme Sports !
Read more…

Jeremie Tronet Rock’n’ Roll in Tarifa

"I had a super good time there with the Ocean Rodeo dealers and riders coming from all over Europe on the beach and in the town where the nightlife is tiering…"
Read More…

She is half French and half Bajanm but one complete lovely kitesurfing girl!

Why kitesurfing? "PFFF! This shouldn’t even be a question!!! Once you are on the board and u get going there is no going back ? THE most amazing feeling ever; gliding freely and smoothly across the water and being at one with the elements."
Read more…

Tropical Paradise Kitesurfing Mini Blog

Subscribe to our Tropical Paradise Kitesurfing Mini-Blog. This RSS feed is TPK journal, which will also let you know whenever any new or changed Web pages appear on TPK site. It keeps you up-to-date with other special postings and points out some of our super-special past adventures that you might otherwise miss.
Subscribe Now!

Tropical Paradise On Facebook

Join us now on Facebook. Enjoy articles, updates, world-wide kite schools, travel ideas, kite spots information, great photos and videos, special interviews and every information you would like to know about kiteboarding at our Facebook group
Take a ride with us!
Join also our TPK butterflies (girls) page and enjoy worldwide kitesurfing
girls stories and photos
Join our TPK Girls

Water Sport Wear NPX Shop Online

The latest hot name for wetsuits, drysuits, tops and accessories for kiteboarding, windsurfing and action watersports. Enjoy noe the best water sports wearing in the market.
We are the only dealers shipping to Europe!
Check the Shop now!

Tropical Paradise Kitesurfing Schools

Find a kite school at your area in our worldwide kite schools list Find a school at your area
Do you own a kite school?
Add your kite school for FREE on TPK…
Find a school now

Tropical Paradise kitesurfing stories

Would you like your own website page with your kite photos and story?
Do you have a kite adventure to share?
Enjoy our kiters community sharing their stories!
Create Your own page here

Tropical Paradise kitesurfing Wallpapers

You can now choose your favorite wallpaper from our wallpapers gallery. Enjoy Cabrinha Team wallpapers, Caribbean kiting spots wallpapers and world wide kitesurfing wallpapers…
Go to Gallery

A word from the Creators

We would like to thank you all for your support on this web site, we are here for you, to help, to share, to make dreams come true.

Also, PLEASE share any of your thoughts or suggestions with us. We always appreciate feedback as we are interested in making each and every newsletter edition as helpful and meaningful as possible

T&T
Tropical Paradise Kitesurfing Team

Back To Top

To leave Tropical Paradise Kitesurfing News August 09 page and return to home page, please click here

First thing, you need a good tripod, I have the Manfrotto Mag Fiber 055MF3 & Manfrotto by Bogen Imaging 303SPH QTVR Spherical Panoramic Head Kit bought at BH Photo, my second Apple store . This 303SPH head allows photography of multi-row cubic, spherical and cylindrical panoramas, along with VR object movie sequences.

You have to spend a lot of time and test before to find the perfect angle and this famous “Nodal Point”… What’s that ????? The entrance pupil of a lens (formerly nodal point) is the point about which a lens is rotated where close and distant subjects focused on the film plane maintain their relative positions to one another. Successful panoramic photography requires that the axis of the camera’s rotation be positioned at the entrance pupil of the lens. Otherwise, foreground and background subjects change their relative positions when the camera pans, causing misalignments and stitching errors between shots.

After that, I am taking 30 photos to compose my 360° image because my head is set up at 36°… 10 photos at 0°, 10 at –50° and 10 more at +50°, all these adjustment depend to your body and lens. I am using the last Canon 5D Mark II and the 17/40 from Canon also.

Also, I want the best result for this image, I mean I want to show what my eyes see in reality. So to get this result, I am “shooting” my images in HDR. High Dynamic Range-technique is a method was developed to produce a high dynamic range image from a set of photographs taken with a range of exposures. I am taking usually for one images at 3 different exposures (underexposure, normal and overexposure). In this way, with these 3 images, I get a record a greater range of tonal detail producing images with more detail in the highlights and shadows.

My 3 images ready to be “HDR”

HDR
completed.

2 – Quicktime vr 360 degree photos: Stitch my images

For my regular single HDR, I prefer to take 5 shots with different exposure and the result is stunning. I am building my main images with these 3 shots with photo merge from Adobe Photoshop, at the end, I got 30 photos ready to be “stitch” and I working with Stitcher to build this flat panoramic. This software enables you to create wide-angle images and panoramas for engaging virtual tours.

View before to be render

Next step is render this view, you will see with the screen capture #01, my set up and click on “Render” on the button… Be ready it might be long, so have a beer and go to surf.

Screen #01

my “flat” panoramic saved in tiff

3 – Quicktime vr 360 degree photo: last step to see my 360°

After a while, I got a file saved .tiff in my desktop. I am launching Cubic converter. This application converts various types of panoramic images into and out of cubic format QuickTime VR movies. It allows simple conversion of VR media with a drop and a click. Just drop your tiff file to the white window, click to convert and see what is happening.. It’s magic and you are almost done. With my 17/40, these 30 images are enough to all my 360° with the top but for the bottom, the lens took your tripod… Bummer. Good thing you thought to take a shot of the floor before to leave.

my tiff convert in 360°, almost done

So Cubic converter already rendered your 360° except the bottom, then click on Cube Faces and bottom you will get this view # 02, export this image and open it on Photoshop and I hope now you know this tool. Adjust, remove the tripod, add your logo or whatever and save it in tiff. Go back to Cubic Converter and click on “choose Image..” et voilà…

View #02. The bottom needs to be retouch

my base for Photoshop

Inside Photoshop, I am retouching the floor and add my logo

et voila….

Your 360° is ready, choose your right size and open this new file with Quick time and play with your mouse… Really cool, don’t you think ? this tutorial “Quicktime vr 360 degree photos” is completed, I really hope it helps a little.