Personally I'm more interested in light, texture and form than any one genre or medium ~ so on the surface I may seem to be all over the place.

 A good exercise is to go thru everything you've kept that you've done and look for patterns of interest; it may be that you've subconsciously made choices that you have yet to recognize.

I use a nikon 10.5 mm lens - it's not the lens length that's a problem but a question - as noted by 3dguy, of rotating around the nodal point. Nikon Control software 'corrects' the fisheye perspecive to rectilinear then software like Stitcher 5 will easily put the pano together.  I use the Manfrotto 303SPH VR HEAD for sphericals and cylindrical panorama - with the 10.5 i only need 6 shots for the cylindrical, 8 for the sphere. Have fun!

For info on Digimarc, the one that is in Photoshop, go to: http://www.digimarc.com/watermark/about/ There are several levels of expense with this service, but it is the most commonly used. The ultimate level here is a usage/web search for your watermark with reporting feature. A concern for many of us fer'shure; I'm trying small file sizes relative to print size, heavy compression helps, but isn't a firm solution, but it is free. One artist I know has a password protected web gallery, and only gives it to brick & mortar galleries, or previous/possible clients [that he's meant in fairs or exhibitions]. Do you make a living off of your artwork like some of us? If so the web has some real obvious benefits, but some terrible drawbacks as we all know. Before I put my art galleries up with my commercial site, i contacted a couple of dozen on-the-web artists about the sales that they generated of the art that was specifically posted. Minimal to none was the reply, but many commissions and/or arrangements to view at a real gallery occured often enough that the risk & expense seemed worth while. Bonne chance !

To make it all even stranger, in broadcast colour television (ntsc, pal, don't know about other formats) the green carries all of the gray scale information.

I'm not too interested in panoramas, but the VR's that can be made from them. I'm getting more clients who are interested in both environmental and object vr's. At this point I'm using Apple's QT VR Authoring Studio - which only runs under OS 9 & PowerPC chips - and hasn't been upgraded since release in 1997. That said it is the only reason I keep a g5, just to run it. Also VR Worx - which has never run well on the PC but does fine on the g5. The Trouble with both of these is they do not do spherical VR's - they do cylindrical and object VR's quite well and with the inexpensive Cubic Connector/Converter combo interactive maps, sounds, hot spots to nodes, url's etc are very doable. I've several like this [multinodes] on my website i did for State of IL. and Kane Co. - http://www.digitalmediart.com/vr.html -but I've several clients that just 'gotta have' sphericals. So the search continues: Panotools does it but has problems for me with how the software is activated; So looking like RealViz - which is somewhat cheaper. There must be more out there. Another great reference site: http://vrm.vrway.com/index.html with articles etc. but terrible layout.

My our full of spices, salt & pepper etc for camping. Light, watertight, and use pen to mark lids easily.

Basically it's whatever you agree to between the two of you. However without a sign model release you own the negatives [or whatever] but can do little with them. Get a copy of: ASMP Professional Business Practices in Photography 6th Ed. [may be a 7th out] isbn 1-58115-197-7 and good luck. As long as you two agree and it's in writing, tho it's pretty rare for the model to sell photos unless that's what you contract to do for her.

Calumet has d200's in stock - at least on the 18th ~http://www.calumetphoto.com/ . I've the d50 but pretty much got it for doing vr photos so the 6 MP doesn't bother me at all as 6 images stitched together is way big enough at that resolution. I do however lust for the d200, but really don't need. Lens choice so much depends on use, perhaps decide what you really want to shot and go from there.

Interesting set of links. I didn't realize interactive pano videos were possible. As to photopano this is a service i've been getting into: http://www.digitalmediart.com/vr.html for some single and multinode examples. tho my new site isn't done it's closer than last week! Thanks.

I've the Epson R2400 and it rocks. Not your q. but....

Nice link. I'm always interested in what's going on with this technology, especially if it lets me break with the Mac (I only do panos there, nothing else). Thanks.

Sometimes I use the thumbnail to show a detail of the larger image, as in "Lighthouse Island" as the detail would be lost to view otherwise. Actually to me the thumb is an opportunity to show details more than anything. In the "Peace" image the eyes are highlighted, because for the web the smallness of the image causes that detail to recede to much which in print it's fine; so thumb's can lend themselves to different stratgies, not just advertisement. And as to panoramas, the thumb, if one gets the whole image in there pretty much shows nothing.

Thanks for directing me to this info Richard, well done and very clear.

Well, it does all boil down to what your comfortable with, but Photoshop is worth the energy it takes to learn it, 'tis very powerful! Have fun should be the motto. tim

The slice tool is that one that looks like an x-acto knife. There are some good basic texts out there: [no offense] Photoshop for Dummies; Photoshop 7 [or whatever the edition] Essential Skills; and the Visual Quickstart Guide Photoshop 7, cs, cs2 whatever again. Try Amazon.com or better yet your local library. Good luck! tim.