OT: My First Panoramic (Post One If You Got One!)

[aberg12012]

What do you guys think? (Honestly...) It turned out a little more blue than I was aiming for, but I guess it helps to emphasize the cold winter.

Yea, it's a little obvious where I stitched them together. I made the mistake of using a CP filter, among other rookie mistakes. Critisism is welcome...

 

[johnxboi]

i can somewhat tell where it was brought together. somewhere in the middle? but not bad not bad for your first panoramic shot. prolly better then waht i can dish out. what cam?

 

[PCIALF]

 

[matona]

Not very good, but here's mine.

 

[aberg12012]

It was shot with a D70, and kit lense at 18mm. I couldn't get the sky to match up in texture and color, even though exposure and WB was the same. I was using a CP filter though, which I guess can cause this problem. So I graussan blurred the heck out of it, which helped but it's still pretty obvious.

A couple things for next time - First ditch the CP filter, and shoot 3 or 4 frames vertically rather than two horizontal, and zoom in to around 35 or so. Better resolution and less perspective distortion.

PCIALF - Thanks for the view of a lake thats not frozen! Thats a nice shot, and I can't see at all were it was stiched. :thumbsup:

Motana - Is that a single frame? Or how did you take multiple frames from the sky?

 

[brent-konieczny]

This isn't that great cause if you look real close you can see where it is stiched, but it was a combination of 4 pictures.

 

[aberg12012]

Wow... thats a beautiful scene! I see you had the same problem I did... the sky gives the whole thing away. :lol: Mine was actually a combo of 4 pics as well... 2 exposed for the sky, and 2 exposed for the foreground. Combining the sky/foreground was easy because there is a nice line to hide the stich with. But combining the left/right sides seems rough because there is nothing in the sky to hide it with. After I got back from shooting, I read that I shouldn't have used a CP filter, so I'm curious to see if that helps blend the sky better. Brent, did you use a polarizer in those shots as well?

 

[CH]

Here's one from the highest point in Colorado, Mt. Elbert.
It's a full 360 so I had to reduce it quite a bit to get the size under 50k. (the original image is 80 inches wide!)

 

[matona]

Well mine was taken from an airplane obviously, and you can see the reflections in the window where it was stiched together.

 

[jetaero]

Very nice shots!

 

[mgregg99]

Nice job! Here are a few of mine:

Panama Canal:

Quito, Ecuador: (Can you spot the twins?)

Valparaiso, Chile:

San Francisco:

Tambo Colorado, Peru:

Green River, Utah:

Wyoming:

WWII Memorial, Washington D.C.:

Mike
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[JmLee]

Wow thats absolutley beautiful!. I dont know much about photography. What kinda cameras are you guys using and what kind of equipment?.

 

[clippo]

stunning - I'm going to have to try that!

 

[aberg12012]

mgreg99... stunning! I had fun trying to find all the twins in your second one. I bet that was hard to find spots to stitch where there wasn't some one standing in the way?

JmLee... Most of us are probably using a DSLR camera, but more importanly is a tripod. These types of shots can be done with any camera that can be mounted on a tripod. Even film, although then you have the added step of scanning.

 

[mgregg99]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6946209#post6946209 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by aberg12012
mgreg99... stunning! I had fun trying to find all the twins in your second one. I bet that was hard to find spots to stitch where there wasn't some one standing in the way?

Thanks for looking. I think there's only one set of twins in the Quito shot. On the right hand side you can see a couple walking and one of them has a red sweatshirt on. By the time I took the next shot they had walked into the frame again. I hadn't noticed until after I stitched the shots together.

It was definitely a challenge doing all of these. If you can believe it, all of these were done handheld. I haven't had my tripod out with me enough to try using it for panoramas. It'd probably make the stitching process a whole lot easier. Lots of trial and error otherwise.

Mike

 

[CH]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6941900#post6941900 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by JmLee
Wow thats absolutley beautiful!. I dont know much about photography. What kinda cameras are you guys using and what kind of equipment?.

I'm using just a Canon powershot A80. It has a great built in panoramic feature which allows you to line up shots as you are taking them. Then there is software that comes with it that includes a stitching program. My image was taken without a tripod, i just stood in one spot and turned around to take each shot. The nice thing about the panoramic feature is that as you take each shot, it shows about half of the previous shot, so it makes it very easy to line up.

 

[aberg12012]

CH... wow they made it too easy!

Mgreg99... I wouldn't have ever guessed those were done hand held! I supose that as long as you leave enough overlap you can rotate and match up in post. Heck, if you think about it... whats more trouble: Lugging a tripod around, or spending an extra few minutes with photo shop?

 

[CH]

Yeah, they made it too easy! LOL
I need to take more advantage of the feature though, I always seem to forget about it!

 

[BlueCorn]

You can see where it's stitched, but here's Mount Shasta:

 

[maroun.c]

I remember once reading about a tripod addition which is camera specific that allows yu to rotate the camera around a spedific plane which give you very similar distortions... in teh pics so that they can match each other a lot more...
Also i belive it's best to lock your exposure if your camera provides it or to use manual and use the same shutter speed and aperture for all shots...
Ok I got the basics now time to find a nice scenery to apply them