Panorama.

[okidoki]

I have tested a few solutions for making panoramas.
I think that the automated features are great if your outcome is a QT VR or something like that for the web.
I did a quick 180 degree shot in Joshua Tree, without a tripod, handheld and in S Priority 1/125 ISO 160... Overlapped about 30% on each image.
I made a new document in PS aligned them and deleted the edges with a soft brush...

This is still a test, to see if I could do it by hand and I must say that it turned out to be much easier than what I had expected...

Does anyone else have experience from doing Panoramas this way that they would like to share???

Perhaps this could be a "Simon Says" from me this time, whatya think???

Best, Timo.


http://24.130.254.148/julku/assets/images/joshua-pano1003.jpg

[Eddie the Gnat]

Very nice - what an amazing place.

I've always believed in making panoramas by hand, as I've never seen anything truly convincing created automatically (never really looked into it though!). I have to confess that I've not yet tried anything like this with my s2 yet, but I definitely will do so soon.

In the meantime, here's a composite (about 90 degrees horizontally) created from 7 handheld shots using nothing but Photoshop 6.

Eddie :)

[okidoki]

That's it.
I am convinced that PS knocks the WYSIWYG's out of the water...

Nice!

Timo

[StormChaser]

How wide is your screen?

[okidoki]

wow...

Ypu must be a part of the new challenge!

Timo

[Eddie the Gnat]

Sorry Anthonie, still 134 pixels to spare:)

Great pic.


Eddie

[Eddie the Gnat]

By the way, I've always been in the habit of taking vertical shots for stitching together as I feel there is less distortion this way, although you obviously need more shots to cover a given angle.

Is there any sense to this? Perhaps it's just one of those things that seemed like a good idea at the time.

[easternherp]

Ive tried to do the multiple shots to make a panorama but I usually end up with distorted buildings that don't piece together. I have not tried to do the vertical trick yet but I believe it should work better.

[sandman]

Shawn did this thread last month ,and i sent in mine (resized to fit the screen. http://www.s2pro.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1856

Brian

[okidoki]

yes vertical makes all the sence in the world... atleast to me...
I overlapped about 30% on each image...

[Eddie the Gnat]

Only just got round to trying this with the s2. If only I'd taken a bit more time on it (and not just flailed away in P mode!) it could have been nice. Oh, and I've discovered that lighting-wise it's best not to take pictures looking east from the east side of a large hill at sunset - I'll have to go back at sunrise someday.:)

Eddie

[bchan3rdi]

The closest things we have to mountains here in Florida is the interstate overpass. :( yay. This place bites. I'm moving or at least going on a trip. Great pics guys.

[pappapratt]

Great pics gentelmen! Do any of you use a Panorama head on a tripod?

[woza]

Panarama

What are the standard settings on the camera to attept this,
to ensure the light does not change from shot to shot.

Kind regards

Warren.

[sandman]

Was going to post this in ''my backyard'' but changed my mind , so i'll post it here instead .
Panoramic view from my back fence ,(well just 30yds down the fence ).

Brian

[easternherp]

Nice View Sandman. You look like you live in the middle of nowhere

[jknights]

Eddie,
Was that a shot from the top of Arthurs' Seat ?

Nice to see Edinburgh in the background (I presume).

[jknights]

Timo,
I think that you will owe us a Photoshop Tutorial item :D

Anthonie,
Very flat and very nice panorama. Did you do it the same way in PS.

[jknights]

Here is a series of a beach panorama from the Seychelles.

Done with a Fuji 6900.

[okidoki]

Wow.

Brian's hood beats mine anytime.
I was surprised going to the mountains the other weekend, I heard birds and I was not breading smog. At home I hear helicopters and see carzy people all the time, shooting a pano at home would be 1. Be very hard and 2. Extremly dangerous, kidding of course but there is an ounce of truth in it and I would for sure switch views with Brian like "that".

As far as the PS tutorial...
Maybe?

Timo

[CaptJR]

I like looking at panoramas that are wider than my computer screen. It seem to make it more real because as you move the slider bar at the bottom of the screen it makes me feel like I'm turning my head to look across the scene.

JR

[sandman]

Looks can be deceiving , thats my ''back yard''. Out of my front door the main A2 London to Dover road runs past, 1 miles from there the industrial center of the Medway Towns , and the river Medway merges with the Thames.
Within a 20 minute walk i can be in the countryside or, the city, and the city center, or the industrial area, or down by the riverside.
Although i get jealous looking at the views that Steph and Sleeping Bear post, all in all i'm happy here , and as someone once said ''it looks like a great place to visit, but i would'nt want to live there''.

I like to see the whole panorama on the screen, i can see the advantages of scrolling around the image , but my taste is different , don't like scrolling around , nothing wrong in doing it ,but i personally don't like it.

Brian

[Eddie the Gnat]

Jonathan,

That is a shot from about halfway up to Arthur's seat, on the Crow hill. I think I must have been suffering from altitude sickness - I couldn't get further than that without acclimatisation!

Eddie

[AndreK]

All very nice pictures. One thing to keep in mind is that pol filter is not the best option for these shots since you change the angle of where the sun hits. A ND grad and then up the saturation in PS might be a better option.

[Ol'coot]

Here is panorama that was put together from 12 photos taken from a scenic overlook in the Eastern Tennessee mountains during my last trip there. The were stitched together using Panorama Factory software. The shots were taken with out a tripod hand held.:rockon:

[LightWriter6208]

these are very impressive shots. What software do you use to stitch them together?

[Wilm]

Originally posted by LightWriter6208
these are very impressive shots. What software do you use to stitch them together?


Lightwriter,

I´m using Realviz Stitcher. A little bit oversized for pure 360° panoramas, but the best for multi-row-panoramas as well for VR-films with quicktime.

Wilm


A view to my (uncleaned) homeoffice:

[Claude Ollieuz]

This is technically also a panorama, even if it does not appear to be:16 micrographs stitched together in PS . It can be seen as a wide angle micrograph or a high resolution macro. The original file is 390.1 MB. Takes a while to do any treatment in PS!

[Dennis]

Hey this is great fun.

This one is of Glasgow (UK) and some of the surrounding towns like Paisley, Renfrew, Dumbarton.

About 160 degrees coverage with 11 pictures in all, using S2 and Nikon 70-200 f2.8 lens at 120mm position. I took an average exposure setting for the range, and set the camera on manual.

Dennis

[KeithM]

Great image Dennis !

I can only image what it would look like printed out on panoramic paper !

Having travelled through Glasgow on the way up to Rhu a couple of times, I've tried to see where the route goes ( A/M74, M8 then peal off to Dumbarton and round to Helensburgh if I remember correctly ), but I've failed miserably ! :)

You definitely get the impression of city vs mountain :righton:

Keith.

[Dennis]

Hi Keith

Have tried very hard to identify the route, but only the occasional feature is visible.

On the extreme left of the panorama I can see Dumbuck hill and I think I can just about make out Dumbarton Rock.

Just above the very bright post at the left hand side, the pillars and deck of the Erskine bridge can be seen.

I went back to the original RAW files, and I was amazed that I could actually see the tail of a plane on the tarmac at Glasgow Airport, 10 miles away. Here is the second frame from the left with some details marked.

Dennis

[Dennis]

Just noticed the spots in the last image...time to clean the S2 yet again !

Dennis

[KeithM]

Yep - got those Dennis ! :)

We'd normally stick to land on the way up but travel over the Erskine bridge on the return journey - not sure why - probably habit :)

I doubt we'll be making the journey so often now though - we used to visit my partner's brother who lived in Rhu but he's just moved back down to the Midlands :( We still intend visiting occasionally though !

Keith.

[JPS]

The french Alps viewed from Mount Saleve (Alt. 1200 meters/4000 feet - 10 km. south of Geneva, Switzerland)
S2 Pro with Nikkor 50mm. f/1.8 - 1:350 @ f/9.5 - ISO 200 - ORG/ORG/OFF - All settings manual
10 horizontal shots (overlap about 50%) covering about 150 degrees - Stitched with Panorama Factory
PS. I had to reduce severely the quality of the pic to get down to the "max. 256kB" allowed... Pity, as the original:
http://http://www.pbase.com/image/24469275 (http://www.pbase.com/image/24469275) looks far better !!!

[Serge]

Awesome panorama Jean-Pierre!

what a backyard to play in :)

[poolman]

Another shot of Daytona speedway, very low quaility.

[Serge]

Very cool Poolman,
going to show it to my boys, been taking them to a local dirt track since they were kids, they're still into the Sprintcars, and whenever Steve Kinza comes over with the Yankee team, he really puts on a show, he won the Main Event (a 40 lapper) again in January.

[okidoki]

Love that picture JPS.

T

[Ruffles]

Mind if I throw mine in? 5 shots stitched with Panavue Image Assembler. Fuji S2 with 24-120 AF-S VR. 3 sec. @ f5.6

[Dennis]

Fantastic image, Ruffles.....gets my vote !

Dennis

[KPRussell]

Dennis, Jean-Pierre, & Steve,

Great Images guys!

You've got me itching to make a go at this.

[psychronos]

I didn't want to shoot a conventional perspective panorama from Pudong (the other side of the river) as it has probably been done a million times, so here is a slightly different perspective.

http://psychronos.com/images/040305_shanghai_the_bund_stitched_i.jpg

[psychronos]

Hmm, the img tag is turned off, so here is it again