Panoramic Photo's

[dmagick]

Yeah, these are great. Its good to see what else you guys have done. These are great things to try when you have the opportunity. dmagick sounds looks and sounds like he has it down. Those are some great tips. Nice job.

Thanks

[dmagick]

Here's one of Abu Dhabi when I was in the United Arab Emirates. (And done without tripod)

Good job But I can see the stitches between the photos. This will happen if you don't use manual mode and keep the exposures the same between each one.

[Gem]

Now that you've pointed it out, I can see one stich. I'm pretty sure it was on Manual, don't really remember, but I've stopped shooting in Auto, Tv, and Av a while back.

So it's better not to keep exposure the same with each photo?

[dmagick]

Now that you've pointed it out, I can see one stich. I'm pretty sure it was on Manual, don't really remember, but I've stopped shooting in Auto, Tv, and Av a while back.

So it's better not to keep exposure the same with each photo?

No, you should keep the same exposure. I was just guessing it wasn't on manual - obviously I guessed wrong Not sure why it didn't blend well then.

[Barefoot]

Panos are fine, but they can’t take you around corners. Photosynth can! I was a little hesitant to download the software necessary to create and view, but I’m glad I did.

I haven’t built one yet, but I’ve viewed several and they are amazing. You can go around corners and into rooms and buildings. My hat is off to Microsoft, they finally got something right.

I’ll be using my FZ8 to build one soon so as not to wear out the DSLR on something like this. Quality isn’t as important as quantity on a project like this. The best ones are projects of over 300 images although there are some good one with less.

If you don’t mind adding another piece of software to your hard drive, I highly recommend it for the visual experience.

http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx

[Mad Aussie]

I've taken very few panorama's. Plenty of faux pano's that I made just by cropping as a panarama but few real ones.

Here's one I did do though. Can't remember how many shots I stitched, but knowing me it was about 4 at the most.

This is a shot of the farm where the Hobbit village scenes were filmed for The Lord of the Rings. For those who know the movie(s) they'll remember the tree at the beginning of the first movie where all the Hobbit party was happening. Well that's the 2nd tree from the right of frame by the lake in this photo.

[Iguanasan]

This is a shot of the farm where the Hobbit village scenes were filmed for The Lord of the Rings. For those who know the movie(s) they'll remember the tree at the beginning of the first movie where all the Hobbit party was happening. Well that's the 2nd tree from the right of frame by the lake in this photo.

Very cool! Yes, I remember the tree well!

[BlueX]

Here are 2 panos I shot at Subaru get-togethers I use to attend. The top one was stitched from 6 pictures and the bottom one was cropped from a single frame. Both shot with a Sony W7 p&s.

[jjeling]

haha, thats awesome. We have a group of people that get together at random places in the city as well. They are called the UT Tuners. The meet and hang out for about 30-45 minutes, they have a final desitnation already picked out, and when security shows up, they usually go get something to eat. Havent seen that many tuned suburus lined up before. Those are some nice cars.

[BlueX]

This one is of a freaky cloud formation. I just so happened to have my camera with me when I came out of the library and saw this. It almost looks solid enough to stand on. The shots were hand held and didn't line up perfectly like I would have wanted it. The front edge of the cloud (and the parking lot) supposed to be straight, not curved.