Update: July 14 and July 16

Thanks to Jason, Matt, and Stan:

http://www.pointbuzz.com/project2007mv.htm

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=486

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?a=487

great updates as always everyone!! thanks to all the photo takers and walt for posting them all for us. :)

God I cannot wait to see what this is going to be. The work site looks cleaned up and possibly ready for vertical construstion.

It does look cleaned up, especially from the last batch of pictures. Great update!

This was my first attempt at doing Panoramic pictures. They were taken while the sun was setting. Ohter than the obvious of taking them closer to midday when there is better light, does anyone know a way to make the lighting blend better from picture to picture?

What program did you use to stitch them together? Does your camera have a panorama mode?

*** Edited 7/18/2006 4:40:12 AM UTC by DBCP***

Well, It has panoramic assist, but it doesn't stitch them together. Pentax comes with ACDSee and Photostitcher, but I use Photoshop CS. These panoramas are anywhere from 3 to 6 pictures.

Is it just me or are those three supports in the center look rather large?

There's still no obvious answer to what this red Intamin coaster will be. I find that shocking somehow.

Jason Hammond said:
Well, It has panoramic assist, but it doesn't stitch them together. Pentax comes with ACDSee and Photostitcher, but I use Photoshop CS. These panoramas are anywhere from 3 to 6 pictures.

I realize it doesn't stitch them together, but some cameras that feature this mode will actually lock onto your shutter speed and aperature settings, keeping you from getting those varying temperatures in the colors, which would help to take care of the lighting blend problem you're referring to. Also, try to avoid panoramas where you have pictures with the sun shining both towards you and away from you; those tend to cause lighting issues as well.

I use Arcsoft's PanormaMaker 3.0. It works very well, atleast when I've used it, and it's quite a bit easier than doing it by hand.

Hmm, Maybe I should have used it. :) Maybe next time. I thought it only help line the pictures up for better stiching. Thanks for the tip.

I didn't use it this time because I was having a hard enough time looking at the LCD without a previous shot taking up space on the screen.

By hand would be insane :p Photoshop CS (Probably other versions as well) has Automated Photomerging. As far as I can tell, you have to have the pictures all oriented the same. I don't think it will rotate pics. So you have to have a steady hand or a tripod. But the tripod would have been difficult for shooting over the fence.
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Hmm... I have Photoshop CS, I just never thought about the fact that it does have that feature since I've always used PanoramaMaker. :) Is CS merging them with that angled stripe? If it is, you might want to try one of the programs specially made for panoramas. They might be a little bit more difficult to get everything lined up perfectly, but most of them will really weave the images together so you won't even be able to tell where one ends or another begins. Many of them will rotate the pictures slightly or as need too, incase yo perhaps you didn't take them straight on to one another.

But yes, likely the panorma mode will help with some of the differences in "K" that you are getting from the pictures.

*** Edited 7/18/2006 6:51:25 AM UTC by DBCP***

The pictures did not begin or end at those lines... my best guess is that photoshop was interpolating the best way to shade the merged pictures.

This might have already been said, but wouldn't all of these footers be the station?

http://www.pointbuzz.com/Gallery.aspx?i=4293

If it is, then i wonder why they still have the WWL station still up.

Possibly, or possibly not.

davey420 said:
If it is, then i wonder why they still have the WWL station still up.

Because they are going to use it for something other than a station for the new ride. Maybe some nice shops, or even a fly-through.

Isn't that where they're going to store the wood from Mean Streak when they tear it down later this season?

No, they're going to store it in the boneyard on Mean Streak's infield.

Ahh, of course. Well, they'll have to wait until they get the new track for TTD's add-on out of there, right?

You mean how they are going to re-do the drop so that they beat KK by making TTD go underground and then have an air-time hill bring it back above ground?

That, and the 300-foot loop, yeah.