new book about panoramic photography and a big thank you

[thomas bredenfeld]

hi panotools list members!

i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about panoramic
photography with a big "thank you" to this list.

for more than one and a half year i worked on the most comprehensive
book in german language about digital panoramic photography. currently
it's reaching the book stores in germany, austria and switzerland.

the target audience is from beginners up to pros. the first for getting
a solid overview about the whole workflow from capturing and hardware
via pre processing, stitching and retouching to output for print and web
as single panoramas and virtual tours as well, the latter for refining
their techniques or adding panoramic photography to their professional
service portfolio.

for some further information about the book i invite you to visit the
books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com

---

i could not think of my more than ten years of experience with panoramic
photography without this list. nearly starting with my first panos i
subscribed to this list (or better it's predecessor). by regularly
reading the countless contributions of you all i learned so much. so now
it's time to return some knowledge back to the panoramic community.

getting personnally in touch with some list members at the lucerne pt
meeting 2007 confirmed my impression of a great community. i enjoyed to
meet you again in prague in 2008. (this year i missed the meeting just
due to heavy work on the panorama book.)

let me point out some list members for a special "thank you". they
together helped me a lot to get my book written:

- joost nieuwenhuijse
- aldo hoeben
- thomas rauscher
- jeffrey martin
- peter nyfeler
- ian wood
- wim koorneef
- klaus reinfeld
- greg downing
- bernhard vogl
- luca vascon
- harry van der wolf
- alexandre jenny

(i hope i didn't forget somebody ;-) )

hope to see you again in plymouth 2010!

thomas

ps. sorry for my poor engish and for the little advertisement noise in
this post ;-)




-----------------------------------------------------------
thomas bredenfeld
===========================================================
art => painting & photography
media => production & training & publishing & consulting
===========================================================
mail:   [hidden email]
web: http://bredenfeld.com
-----------------------------------------------------------
subscribe to my blog: http://bredenfeld.com/blogfeed
-----------------------------------------------------------
Meine aktuellen Bücher:
"Photoshop CS4 - Fortgeschrittene Techniken" - http://photoshopbuch.com
"Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie" - http://panoramabuch.com
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[Uri Cogan]

Thomas Bredenfeld wrote:


> for more than one and a half year i worked on the most comprehensive
> book in german language about digital panoramic photography. currently
> it's reaching the book stores in germany, austria and switzerland.

Congratulations and thanks!

Any plans for an English version?


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[thomas bredenfeld]

Uri Cogan schrieb:

> Thomas Bredenfeld wrote:
>
>
>> for more than one and a half year i worked on the most comprehensive
>> book in german language about digital panoramic photography. currently
>> it's reaching the book stores in germany, austria and switzerland.
>
> Congratulations and thanks!
>
> Any plans for an English version?
>
>

we're thinking about it, but we'll wait how it starts here in the german
speaking countries.

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[erik_leeman]

Congratulations Thomas!

It was nice meeting you in Prague

Erik Leeman

--- In [hidden email], Thomas Bredenfeld wrote:

>
> hi panotools list members!
> i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about
> panoramic photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
> for more than one and a half year i worked on the most
> comprehensive book in german language about digital panoramic
> photography. currently it's reaching the book stores in germany,
> austria and switzerland.
> ...snip...
> for some further information about the book i invite you to visit
> the books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com
> ...snip...
> thomas bredenfeld

[Paulo Fernandes]

I'll second that request for a English version ;)

Congratulations, I took a look at the sample pages on amazon and the index
 (from what I could understand with my limited German) looks very detailed
:)

Although I see KRPano had a index entry but FPP didn't, it does show on the
glossary
tough ;)

Keep us posted on how the sales go :)

On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM, erik_leeman <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> Congratulations Thomas!
>
> It was nice meeting you in Prague
>
> Erik Leeman
>
>
> --- In [hidden email] <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com>, Thomas
> Bredenfeld wrote:
> >
> > hi panotools list members!
> > i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about
> > panoramic photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
> > for more than one and a half year i worked on the most
> > comprehensive book in german language about digital panoramic
> > photography. currently it's reaching the book stores in germany,
> > austria and switzerland.
> > ...snip...
>
> > for some further information about the book i invite you to visit
> > the books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com
> > ...snip...
> > thomas bredenfeld
>
>  
>

--
Com os melhores cumprimentos,

Paulo Fernandes
Multimedia

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Go Go Pixel - Design, Fotografia e Multimédia
Calçada do Lidador, 22, 1ºAndar
4480-690 Vila do Conde - Portugal
Tel. [phone] - Fax. [phone]
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Trausti Hraunfjord]

Und Flashificator?

:)

Looks like a nice publication worth having.

Trausti



On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Paulo Fernandes <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>
> I'll second that request for a English version ;)
>
> Congratulations, I took a look at the sample pages on amazon and the index
> (from what I could understand with my limited German) looks very detailed
> :)
>
> Although I see KRPano had a index entry but FPP didn't, it does show on the
> glossary
> tough ;)
>
> Keep us posted on how the sales go :)
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM, erik_leeman <[hidden email]<erik.leeman%40xs4all.nl>>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Congratulations Thomas!
> >
> > It was nice meeting you in Prague
> >
> > Erik Leeman
> >
> >
> > --- In [hidden email] <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com><PanoToolsNG%
> 40yahoogroups.com>, Thomas
>
> > Bredenfeld wrote:
> > >
> > > hi panotools list members!
> > > i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about
> > > panoramic photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
> > > for more than one and a half year i worked on the most
> > > comprehensive book in german language about digital panoramic
> > > photography. currently it's reaching the book stores in germany,
> > > austria and switzerland.
> > > ...snip...
> >
> > > for some further information about the book i invite you to visit
> > > the books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com
> > > ...snip...
> > > thomas bredenfeld
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Com os melhores cumprimentos,
>
> Paulo Fernandes
> Multimedia
>
>
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
> Go Go Pixel - Design, Fotografia e Multimédia
> Calçada do Lidador, 22, 1ºAndar
> 4480-690 Vila do Conde - Portugal
> Tel. [phone] - Fax. [phone]
>
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>  
>

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Wim Koornneef]

Hello Thomas,

Congratulations.
For sure your book is an impressive piece of creative hard labour ;-)
I hope that some day it will hit the shops in an English version.

All the best, see you in Plymouth,

Wim

[thomas bredenfeld]

@paulo: fpp is mentioned, but at the last three chapters we had to save
place due to a strictly limited number of pages in the book. i decided
to mention fpp, but not to go into details because it has quite similar
approach as krpano (fixed swf with xml-config-file).

@trausti: same reason for flashificator as an addon for fpp.

i'm planning to bring more additional content which hasn't found it's
way into the book on the book website as an extra feature for the book's
readers and to the visitors website. (and that's a lot of stuff ;-) )

so feel free to subscribe to the sites blog rss feed to be notified ;-)

@all with requests for an english version: i'm collecting it and I'll
tell the editor about it.

@all: thanks for all the positive replies!

thomas


Trausti Hraunfjord schrieb:

>  
>
> Und Flashificator?
>
> :)
>
> Looks like a nice publication worth having.
>
> Trausti
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Paulo Fernandes <[hidden email]
> <mailto:paulo.jf%40gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>  >
>  >
>  > I'll second that request for a English version ;)
>  >
>  > Congratulations, I took a look at the sample pages on amazon and the
> index
>  > (from what I could understand with my limited German) looks very detailed
>  > :)
>  >
>  > Although I see KRPano had a index entry but FPP didn't, it does show
> on the
>  > glossary
>  > tough ;)
>  >
>  > Keep us posted on how the sales go :)
>  >
>  >
>  > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:12 PM, erik_leeman <[hidden email]
> <mailto:erik.leeman%40xs4all.nl><erik.leeman%40xs4all.nl>>
>  > wrote:
>  >
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > Congratulations Thomas!
>  > >
>  > > It was nice meeting you in Prague
>  > >
>  > > Erik Leeman
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --- In [hidden email]
> <mailto:PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com>
> <PanoToolsNG%40yahoogroups.com><PanoToolsNG%
>  > 40yahoogroups.com>, Thomas
>  >
>  > > Bredenfeld wrote:
>  > > >
>  > > > hi panotools list members!
>  > > > i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about
>  > > > panoramic photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
>  > > > for more than one and a half year i worked on the most
>  > > > comprehensive book in german language about digital panoramic
>  > > > photography. currently it's reaching the book stores in germany,
>  > > > austria and switzerland.
>  > > > ...snip...
>  > >
>  > > > for some further information about the book i invite you to visit
>  > > > the books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com 
> <http://panoramabuch.com>
>  > > > ...snip...
>  > > > thomas bredenfeld
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  > --
>  > Com os melhores cumprimentos,
>  >
>  > Paulo Fernandes
>  > Multimedia
>  >
>  >
>  >
> ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>  > Go Go Pixel - Design, Fotografia e Multimédia
>  > Calçada do Lidador, 22, 1ºAndar
>  > 4480-690 Vila do Conde - Portugal
>  > Tel. [phone] - Fax. [phone]
>  >
>  >
> :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
>  >
>  > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>  >
>  >
>  >
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

[Karol Kwiatek]

Hi Thomas,

It is great to hear that your book is ready.
English version would be very appreciated.

There is also another new book on Amazon about panoramas.
It was finally added to Amazon 2 days ago:
'Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography'
ISBN-13: 978-1933952451
Link
<http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1933952458/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p14_t1?\
pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1A94XZGC3B7Q5SQ0P07R&pf_\
rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294>

This is an English version of a book that was published first in German.
Panoramaphotographie: Theorie und Praxis
Link
<http://www.amazon.de/Panoramafotografie-Theorie-Praxis-Harald-Woeste/dp\
/3898644405/ref=pd_sim_b_2>

Thomas, can you refer to Herald Woeste work? What he forgot to write
about? What is only in your book?

Which one do you recommend?
I will get both both books soon. :-)


Regards,
Karol



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Don Bain]

On Oct 31, 2009, at 1:16 PM, panometr wrote:
> There is also another new book on Amazon about panoramas.
>
> 'Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography'
>
> ISBN-13: 978-1933952451
>
On the US Amazon site that would be: http://tinyurl.com/yagxvaw

[Erik Krause]

"panometr" <[hidden email]> wrote
> Thomas, can you refer to Herald Woeste work? What he forgot to write
> about? What is only in your book?

Harald asked me to proofread some chapters of his book. It has a totally
different approach than Thomas. He didn't want to write about specific
software but to describe general concepts and approaches in the first
part of his book (the one I proofread). The second part describes some
possible workflows using real life examples - again without paying much
attention to specific programs.

As far as I saw Thomas's approach is far more comprehensive but possibly
more short lived, too. I think both books have their justification.

--
Erik Krause

[thomas bredenfeld]

hi karol!

of course i cannot give a really neutral statement about a book written
by direct competitor and compare it to my own work ;-)

as erik pointed out, harald has a different approach. i tried to be much
more comprehensive and without the given page limit the book would have
been ended at 500+ pages ;-)

imho harald often stops before it get's interesting. the basic/historic
part is relatively long and on the opposite side the output in any
interactive manner (qtvr, flash etc.) is nearly completely omitted.

eric is righgt: unfortunatly short lifetime is the destiny of any book
about software. there's always a version dependency. i'm suffered from
that with my 3 photoshop books. but in case of panoramic software time's
running not that fast. to compensate this dependency i decided to setup
the website to keep my readers a little bit up to date about the things
written in the book.

thomas

panometr schrieb:

>  
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> It is great to hear that your book is ready.
> English version would be very appreciated.
>
> There is also another new book on Amazon about panoramas.
> It was finally added to Amazon 2 days ago:
> 'Mastering Digital Panoramic Photography'
> ISBN-13: 978-1933952451
> Link
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1933952458/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p14_t1?\
> pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1A94XZGC3B7Q5SQ0P07R&pf_\
> rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294
> <http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1933952458/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1A94XZGC3B7Q5SQ0P07R&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467128533&pf_rd_i=468294>>
>
> This is an English version of a book that was published first in German.
> Panoramaphotographie: Theorie und Praxis
> Link
> <http://www.amazon.de/Panoramafotografie-Theorie-Praxis-Harald-Woeste/dp\
> /3898644405/ref=pd_sim_b_2
> <http://www.amazon.de/Panoramafotografie-Theorie-Praxis-Harald-Woeste/dp/3898644405/ref=pd_sim_b_2>>
>
> Thomas, can you refer to Herald Woeste work? What he forgot to write
> about? What is only in your book?
>
> Which one do you recommend?
> I will get both both books soon. :-)
>
> Regards,
> Karol
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

[luca vascon-3]

YATTAAAAAAAAA!!!
It is here!!!
:0)
I want to order a signed copy, to treasure in my shelves!!!
One day I will write something too!!!

2009/10/30 Thomas Bredenfeld <[hidden email]>:

> hi panotools list members!
>
> i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about panoramic
> photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
>
> for more than one and a half year i worked on the most comprehensive
> book in german language about digital panoramic photography. currently
> it's reaching the book stores in germany, austria and switzerland.
>
> the target audience is from beginners up to pros. the first for getting
> a solid overview about the whole workflow from capturing and hardware
> via pre processing, stitching and retouching to output for print and web
> as single panoramas and virtual tours as well, the latter for refining
> their techniques or adding panoramic photography to their professional
> service portfolio.
>
> for some further information about the book i invite you to visit the
> books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com
>
> ---
>
> i could not think of my more than ten years of experience with panoramic
> photography without this list. nearly starting with my first panos i
> subscribed to this list (or better it's predecessor). by regularly
> reading the countless contributions of you all i learned so much. so now
> it's time to return some knowledge back to the panoramic community.
>
> getting personnally in touch with some list members at the lucerne pt
> meeting 2007 confirmed my impression of a great community. i enjoyed to
> meet you again in prague in 2008. (this year i missed the meeting just
> due to heavy work on the panorama book.)
>
> let me point out some list members for a special "thank you". they
> together helped me a lot to get my book written:
>
> - joost nieuwenhuijse
> - aldo hoeben
> - thomas rauscher
> - jeffrey martin
> - peter nyfeler
> - ian wood
> - wim koorneef
> - klaus reinfeld
> - greg downing
> - bernhard vogl
> - luca vascon
> - harry van der wolf
> - alexandre jenny
>
> (i hope i didn't forget somebody ;-) )
>
> hope to see you again in plymouth 2010!
>
> thomas
>
> ps. sorry for my poor engish and for the little advertisement noise in
> this post ;-)
>
>
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> thomas bredenfeld
> ===========================================================
> art => painting & photography
> media => production & training & publishing & consulting
> ===========================================================
> mail:   [hidden email]
> web:    http://bredenfeld.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> subscribe to my blog: http://bredenfeld.com/blogfeed
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> Meine aktuellen Bücher:
> "Photoshop CS4 - Fortgeschrittene Techniken" - http://photoshopbuch.com
> "Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie" - http://panoramabuch.com
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> --
>
>
>
>

--
Luca Vascon.

www.canalview.it
www.officinepanottiche.com

[thomas bredenfeld]

hi luca!

thanks for your post!

luca vascon schrieb:
>
>
> YATTAAAAAAAAA!!! It is here!!! :0) I want to order a signed copy, to
> treasure in my shelves!!!

did you mean you ordered one or did you mean me to send you one ;-)
(caution, it's in german! ;-) )

One day I will write something too!!!

oh yeah! what about? panoramic stuff too?

special thanks to you for connecting me with martino!

cheers
thomas

>
> 2009/10/30 Thomas Bredenfeld <[hidden email]
> <mailto:mailinglist%40bredenfeld.com>>:
>> hi panotools list members!
>>
>> i feel free to combine the announcement of my new book about
>> panoramic photography with a big "thank you" to this list.
>>
>> for more than one and a half year i worked on the most
>> comprehensive book in german language about digital panoramic
>> photography. currently it's reaching the book stores in germany,
>> austria and switzerland.
>>
>> the target audience is from beginners up to pros. the first for
>> getting a solid overview about the whole workflow from capturing
>> and hardware via pre processing, stitching and retouching to output
>> for print and web as single panoramas and virtual tours as well,
>> the latter for refining their techniques or adding panoramic
>> photography to their professional service portfolio.
>>
>> for some further information about the book i invite you to visit
>> the books companion website: http://panoramabuch.com
> <http://panoramabuch.com>
>>
>> ---
>>
>> i could not think of my more than ten years of experience with
>> panoramic photography without this list. nearly starting with my
>> first panos i subscribed to this list (or better it's predecessor).
>> by regularly reading the countless contributions of you all i
>> learned so much. so now it's time to return some knowledge back to
>> the panoramic community.
>>
>> getting personnally in touch with some list members at the lucerne
>> pt meeting 2007 confirmed my impression of a great community. i
>> enjoyed to meet you again in prague in 2008. (this year i missed
>> the meeting just due to heavy work on the panorama book.)
>>
>> let me point out some list members for a special "thank you". they
>> together helped me a lot to get my book written:
>>
>> - joost nieuwenhuijse - aldo hoeben - thomas rauscher - jeffrey
>> martin - peter nyfeler - ian wood - wim koorneef - klaus reinfeld -
>> greg downing - bernhard vogl - luca vascon - harry van der wolf -
>> alexandre jenny
>>
>> (i hope i didn't forget somebody ;-) )
>>
>> hope to see you again in plymouth 2010!
>>
>> thomas
>>
>> ps. sorry for my poor engish and for the little advertisement noise
>> in this post ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------- thomas
>> bredenfeld
>> =========================================================== art =>
>> painting & photography media => production & training & publishing
>> & consulting
>> =========================================================== mail:
>> [hidden email] <mailto:thomas%40bredenfeld.com> web:
>> http://bredenfeld.com <http://bredenfeld.com>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>> subscribe to my blog: http://bredenfeld.com/blogfeed
> <http://bredenfeld.com/blogfeed>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------- Meine
>> aktuellen Bücher: "Photoshop CS4 - Fortgeschrittene Techniken" -
> http://photoshopbuch.com <http://photoshopbuch.com>
>> "Praxisbuch Digitale Panoramafotografie" - http://panoramabuch.com
>>
> <http://panoramabuch.com>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> -- Luca Vascon.
>
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