Show your panoramas

[BBW]

A beauty. It's great to click on and go to the largest size via Flickr.

All of you who've posted, when you can it really is nice to be able to click on them to see them in larger sizes, so as to be able to appreciate all the great details.

So I guess it's a special panoramic software? And there are, no doubt, a number of them?

 

[bilzmale]

Here's one of mine taken some years ago when I had the C-5050 compact. It's my home town.

If you want to start 'playing' with panos Microsoft makes a free pano stitcher called ICE (for Image Composite Editor) but only for Win 32 and 64 bit. If you get serious I recommend AutoPano Pro.

Here's another shot (dslr this time) from central Australia.

An another from the goldfields 'ghost town' of Cue. (also with C-5050).

 

[davect01]

Nice additions, love the panorama mode.

 

[PeterB666]

So what techniques are y'all using to get panoramas? I've never tried one before. I have a feeling I should before I visit Morocco.

Use a tripod
Get it as level as possible. It is good if there is something straight to judge, e.g. a horizon and pan the camera and check.

Overlap each shot by 25% or so. Don't do too much as panoramic software gets confused. Don't do too little otherwise it won't know what to do.

For maximum resolution, shoot in portrait mode but this creates large files. You may need 6 or more shots this way.

For low resolution and easy, shoot in landscape mode and wide. You probably only need 3 shots this way.

Have a fair amount of excess at the top and bottom of each shot as the panorama software will sacrifice that to stich things together. It is proably best to keep foregrounds simple.

I use Camera Raw/Adobe CS5 but also have an older version of Arcsoft Panorama Maker however it isn't as good at joining stuff. Newer versions are probably better.

If you are shooting with an Olympus camera and use the built in panorama mode, you can use the Olympus Master software to join stuff up. I no longer use the panorama mode as I never shoot using the build in scene modes. Generally shooting at sunrise means you don't get the most suitable exposure with the panorama scene mode.

Start modestly with a 3-shot landscape and see how you go. Take it from there.

 

[PeterB666]

Great phots Bill. Must get myself back to the West Australian goldfields towns some time. Must be around 40 years ago and no camera since I have been through that area.

 

[intense]

If it is of any help for someone, that's how I set my camera for panoramas: I set manual ISO speed, manual white balance and manual exposure. I do it in order to keep all images with the same settings. It is awful to ruin a panorama because the camera chose wrong white balance for the third picture for example.

 

[PeterB666]

Single frame panorama (obviously a wide angle lens and some cropping)

Camel Rock by peterb666, on Flickr

 

[BBW]

Breathtaking, Peter. The simplicity is magical.

 

[stillshunter]

Quick play with the DP2 down my front driveway.

SDIM08pano flickr-2.jpg by stillshunter, on Flickr

 

[BBW]

That photograph settles it - I am going to come to visit you, Mark! No wonder your commute to work is so far - and so incredibly worth it!

I'm just about speechless with the beauty - and boy does this spur me on to wanting to move to a more countrified area! Wow!

P.S. And on a much less important, note - I need to learn how to do these panoramic photos!

 

[djordjej]

Hi. I am new to this forum and this is my first post. I have only few panoramas. These are stitches from Canon G7 from Greek Island Skiathos:

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And this one is Island Evia from ferry:
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[BBW]

djordjej - welcome and thanks so much for these as well as those spectacular doors over on the Show Doors, thread!

If there's any way that you could post these in larger sizes, it would be wonderful to be able to fully appreciate them. That inlet looks as though it is a place I'd like to be.

Please stop by and give us your official unofficial introduction over in the Welcomes and Introductions forum, next time you stop in. I'm very glad you've come over.

 

[PeterB666]

My sister's backyard...

Bermagui Backyard by peterb666, on Flickr

My previous pano of Camel Rock is of the spot in the middle of the photo at the end of the long beach. You would need exceedingly good eyesight

 

[PeterB666]

Well djordjej - Love the rays of light in the Island Evia shot.

 

[PeterB666]

Another pano. This is across the mouth of Wallaga Lake which opens out to the sea (well it does some of the time). In the background is Mt Dromedary which is also in my last pano.

Wallaga Lake Entrance - Marunna Point by peterb666, on Flickr

 

[BBW]

What a backyard your sister has! This lake shot is really quite cool, as well as being another beautiful view.

 

[PeterB666]

We could do with a few more panoramas here. This is one from this morning - Homebush Bay which is part of Sydney Harbour...

Homebush Bay Panorama OVs 1 by peterb666, on Flickr

Olympus E-P1 and Voigtlander 25mm f/0.95. Made up of 5 frames in portrait mode.

 

[serhan]

My panos with several serious compacts

Some of my shots using different serious compacts:

Potomac Canal from MD side near Washington, DC with Sigma DP1

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Cherry Blossoms at Washington, DC with EP1

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Montreal with Sigma DP1

Stockholm with Panasonic LX3

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Zurich with DP2

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Sile, Turkey with EP1 and 14-42mm

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Norway with Nex 5 with kit lens

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I think these show why I went with smaller compacts after traveling big dslrs.

Serhan

 

[HeatherTheVet]

My first attempt with the panoramic function on the NEX-5. Exposure etc rubbish, but good fun.Ben More on the left, Stob Binnean in the middle and An Casteil on the right.

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[kathyh]

London from St. James Park. I call it an instant pano because it's cropped to get the effect.

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G1 with 20mm lens