Your panoramic photos [56k warning]

[Soylent Joe]

Post any good original panoramas here.

I use the panorama function in Windows Live Photo Gallery (http://explore.live.com/windows-live-photo-gallery?os=other), then take the huge result over to CS5 for manipulation and to get any bad tearing out.

Took this one earlier here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=31+9'6.55%22+N,+81+32'47.87%22+W&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.118084,135.263672&ie=UTF8&ll=31.15193,-81.546565&spn=0.00191,0.004128&t=h&z=19).
http://img.techpowerup.org/110410/marshland.jpg

[MT Alex]

Just started on a new job site. I took these last week, now it is much nastier out, with even more snow in the mountains. Were running 187% snowpack for this time of year.

http://img.techpowerup.org/110504/stitch2.jpg

ETA: Bigger upload pic size. Photobucket sucks.

[DaveK]

Didn't know there was a panorama function in Windows Photo Gallery so gave it a shot, pretty impressive. Now I just have to keep cropping in mind when taking pictures instead of trying to get the guide from the last picture lined up with the next one in the panorama mode of my camera. And now I no longer have to use my phone, which was limited to 8 low quality VGA pictures :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/davidkinsella/P1110056Stitchb.jpg

[theJesus]

Never done a panoramic shot before. Do you just put the camera on a tripod, take a shot, rotate, take another, etc. and then crop and merge?

[DaveK]

Never done a panoramic shot before. Do you just put the camera on a tripod, take a shot, rotate, take another, etc. and then crop and merge?

I don't use a tripod. Yeah, just snap, rotate, rinse and repeat. Then make the panorama with software like Windows Live Photo Gallery then crop. This is what mine looked like after Windows Photo Gallery stitched them all together:

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/davidkinsella/P1110056Stitch.jpg

[Soylent Joe]

Never done a panoramic shot before. Do you just put the camera on a tripod, take a shot, rotate, take another, etc. and then crop and merge?

Don't be afraid to overlap the shots. Your natural reaction is to just barely meet the edges of each picture, but for any panorama creator you need to overlap each shot by at least 1/3. The more overlap the better.

[Soylent Joe]

Just did a quick one of my new funroom :D
http://img.techpowerup.org/110626/newroom.jpg

[theJesus]

I tried to do one after I first saw this thread, but it stitched really bad and I was too lazy to fix it because it wasn't anything interesting, just a quick test.

[Soylent Joe]

I tried to do one after I first saw this thread, but it stitched really bad and I was too lazy to fix it because it wasn't anything interesting, just a quick test.

Yeah as you can see in that one there are some places (like the doorsill) that stitched badly. I think the key is just to overlap as much as possible, and do a clean rotation as if you were on a tripod, without moving too much up or down.

[theJesus]

The funny thing is that I used a tripod lol

[TIGR]

Reviving an old thread. Here's one from July 2010. It consists of 227 photos. Downscaled to about 2% of original size:

http://www.tigrcs.com/1/img/p/Panorama%20001.jpg

[Soylent Joe]

Wow. How did you manage to take so many photos?

[TIGR]

Oops—glad you mentioned it, had to double check and edit. It was only 227 photos (674 megapixels). I don't remember doing it (long story, I have anterograde amnesia). But when the scene is fairly static (e.g. no fast-moving clouds or really dynamic lighting conditions), I generally overlap the photos in a panorama a great deal and trim the edges so as to minimize distortion, keep the parts of the images with the greatest image quality and sharpness, and still provide plenty of control points for the panorama software. I have only a 60mm lens to work with (on a 1.6x crop sensor 400D) so it does also simply take quite a few photos to cover a scene like that.

That is the lift bridge in Duluth, MN on Lake Superior. One of my favorite places in the world. :)

[Ufgy20]

now is it just me but that Bridge looks like the one here in Duluth.... is it???

closer inspection it IS :O very nice shot i like it.. i like it alot

[entropy13]

http://i.imgur.com/SfxWr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/25dUJ.jpg
Old pics, a dam built in 1901 by the Americans.

[DaveK]

My bedroom after moving the bed from the right to the left and the desks from the the left wall to the back wall.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/davidkinsella/P1110919Stitch.jpg

[erocker]

http://i.imgur.com/SfxWr.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/25dUJ.jpg
Old pics, a dam built in 1901 by the Americans.

It's like Skyrim in the summertime!!!

[theJesus]

My bedroom after moving the bed from the right to the left and the desks from the the left wall to the back wall.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/davidkinsella/P1110919Stitch.jpg
Don't you live with your girlfriend? That's a pretty small bed for two people.

[DaveK]

Took this earlier when the sun was out, it's supposed to be like this for the rest of the week :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y171/davidkinsella/P1120193Stitch.jpg

[Black Panther]

How do you manage to take such perfect panoramic photos?

Here's my first attempt:o (testing with LG Arena cellphone camera hence low image quality) and using Windows Live Photo Gallery but the end result is really warped! I even took care to straighten all the photos perfectly but couldn't get rid of the sea "going up" towards the right of the photo.
http://i.imgur.com/9ei3i.jpg

Perhaps the sea is a tricky subject?


Doing it manually by superimposing the images with MS Paint made the view more faithful to the real one, but then it really shows up where the overlapping is done...
http://i.imgur.com/SRuL9.jpg

[theJesus]

Play around with it in GIMP and you should be able to fix that up.