Your panoramic photos [56k warning]

Soylent Joe · 04-11-2011, 12:47 AM

Post any good original panoramas here.

I use the panorama function in Windows Live Photo Gallery, then take the huge result over to CS5 for manipulation and to get any bad tearing out.

Took this one earlier here.

MT Alex · 05-04-2011, 05:08 AM

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.

ETA: Bigger upload pic size. Photobucket sucks.

DaveK · 05-30-2011, 10:31 PM

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

theJesus · 05-30-2011, 11:31 PM

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 · 05-30-2011, 11:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

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:

Soylent Joe · 05-30-2011, 11:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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?

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 · 06-26-2011, 04:19 AM

Just did a quick one of my new funroom

theJesus · 06-26-2011, 05:45 AM

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 · 06-26-2011, 06:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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.

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 · 06-26-2011, 06:16 AM

The funny thing is that I used a tripod lol

TIGR · 10-01-2011, 02:27 AM

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

Soylent Joe · 10-01-2011, 03:03 AM

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

TIGR · 10-01-2011, 03:13 AM

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 · 12-26-2011, 02:23 AM

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 · 12-26-2011, 02:32 AM

Old pics, a dam built in 1901 by the Americans.

DaveK · 01-11-2012, 05:44 PM

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

erocker · 01-11-2012, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by entropy13

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 · 01-11-2012, 10:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 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/y17...0919Stitch.jpg

Don't you live with your girlfriend? That's a pretty small bed for two people.

DaveK · 03-26-2012, 07:44 PM

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

Black Panther · 04-08-2012, 08:56 PM

How do you manage to take such perfect panoramic photos?

Here's my first attempt

(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.

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...

theJesus · 04-08-2012, 11:54 PM

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

DaveK · 07-02-2012, 11:19 PM

One of the parks in the area I live. I cycle over a bridge crossing a main road and train tracks and I get a nicer vantage point.

DaveK · 10-28-2012, 09:22 PM

From the bottom of Three Rock Mountain overlooking Dublin. I had a better view halfway up the mountain but never thought to take a panorama, there's an even higher view where the mountain bike trails are so I'll probably take another one during the week.

MRCL · 10-28-2012, 10:32 PM

There are a few I made during my basic training in the army with my Samsung Pixon. This is sort of the "most goodest."

The view from our casern located in Lucerne. You can see mount Pilatus and mount Titlis, two very distinct mountains in central Switzerland. Pilatus is the prominent mass of rock left to the middle, and mount Titlis is this white shark fin like mass of rock a bit more to the left of Pilatus.

04-11-2011, 12:47 AM	#1
Soylent Joe Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Brunswick, GA Posts: 1,069 Thanks: 830 Thanked 376 Times in 195 Posts Dislikes: 9 Disliked 6 Times in 3 Posts	Your panoramic photos [56k warning] Post any good original panoramas here. I use the panorama function in Windows Live Photo Gallery, then take the huge result over to CS5 for manipulation and to get any bad tearing out. Took this one earlier here. Last edited by Soylent Joe; 04-11-2011 at 12:50 AM.

05-04-2011, 05:08 AM	#2
MT Alex Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Bigfork, Montana Posts: 1,853 Thanks: 1,367 Thanked 917 Times in 557 Posts Dislikes: 64 Disliked 16 Times in 13 Posts	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. ETA: Bigger upload pic size. Photobucket sucks. Last edited by MT Alex; 05-04-2011 at 05:15 AM.

05-30-2011, 11:31 PM	#4
theJesus I QUIT MAH JERB! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Where the broken things are Posts: 18,971 Thanks: 21,180 Thanked 8,816 Times in 5,589 Posts Dislikes: 446 Disliked 194 Times in 169 Posts	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? __________________ "Oh come on. Quit making excuses already. Even in a weird position, and doing it manualy, it only takes a couple of minutes. You are just being OCD about it or something." - Wile E "OMG the chair I'm sitting on! It has a penus!! " - Black Panther "Signatures should not contain quotes. It makes no sense." - DanTheBanjoman I doesnt afraid of anything!

06-26-2011, 05:45 AM	#8
theJesus I QUIT MAH JERB! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Where the broken things are Posts: 18,971 Thanks: 21,180 Thanked 8,816 Times in 5,589 Posts Dislikes: 446 Disliked 194 Times in 169 Posts	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. __________________ "Oh come on. Quit making excuses already. Even in a weird position, and doing it manualy, it only takes a couple of minutes. You are just being OCD about it or something." - Wile E "OMG the chair I'm sitting on! It has a penus!! " - Black Panther "Signatures should not contain quotes. It makes no sense." - DanTheBanjoman I doesnt afraid of anything!

06-26-2011, 06:16 AM	#10
theJesus I QUIT MAH JERB! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Where the broken things are Posts: 18,971 Thanks: 21,180 Thanked 8,816 Times in 5,589 Posts Dislikes: 446 Disliked 194 Times in 169 Posts	The funny thing is that I used a tripod lol __________________ "Oh come on. Quit making excuses already. Even in a weird position, and doing it manualy, it only takes a couple of minutes. You are just being OCD about it or something." - Wile E "OMG the chair I'm sitting on! It has a penus!! " - Black Panther "Signatures should not contain quotes. It makes no sense." - DanTheBanjoman I doesnt afraid of anything!

05-30-2011, 10:31 PM	#3
DaveK Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,237 Thanks: 285 Thanked 522 Times in 324 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	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

06-26-2011, 04:19 AM	#7
Soylent Joe Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Brunswick, GA Posts: 1,069 Thanks: 830 Thanked 376 Times in 195 Posts Dislikes: 9 Disliked 6 Times in 3 Posts	Just did a quick one of my new funroom

10-01-2011, 02:27 AM	#11
TIGR New Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Reviving an old thread. Here's one from July 2010. It consists of 227 photos. Downscaled to about 2% of original size: Last edited by TIGR; 10-01-2011 at 03:07 AM.

10-01-2011, 03:03 AM	#12
Soylent Joe Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Brunswick, GA Posts: 1,069 Thanks: 830 Thanked 376 Times in 195 Posts Dislikes: 9 Disliked 6 Times in 3 Posts	Wow. How did you manage to take so many photos?

10-01-2011, 03:13 AM	#13
TIGR New Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 3 Thanks: 1 Thanked 6 Times in 3 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 0 Times in 0 Posts	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. Last edited by TIGR; 10-01-2011 at 03:15 AM.

12-26-2011, 02:23 AM	#14
Ufgy20 Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 193 Thanks: 384 Thanked 462 Times in 113 Posts Dislikes: 10 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	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

12-26-2011, 02:32 AM	#15
entropy13 Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Philippines Posts: 4,444 Thanks: 79 Thanked 4,445 Times in 1,488 Posts Dislikes: 21 Disliked 171 Times in 144 Posts	Old pics, a dam built in 1901 by the Americans. __________________ "Sir, we're surrounded!" "Good! We can attack in any direction!" ------- "Io credo ch'ei credette ch'io credesse." - "I think perhaps he thought that I was thinking." ------- "I used to be indecisive, but now I'm not sure."

01-11-2012, 05:44 PM	#16
DaveK Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,237 Thanks: 285 Thanked 522 Times in 324 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	My bedroom after moving the bed from the right to the left and the desks from the the left wall to the back wall.

03-26-2012, 07:44 PM	#19
DaveK Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,237 Thanks: 285 Thanked 522 Times in 324 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	Took this earlier when the sun was out, it's supposed to be like this for the rest of the week

04-08-2012, 11:54 PM	#21
theJesus I QUIT MAH JERB! Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Where the broken things are Posts: 18,971 Thanks: 21,180 Thanked 8,816 Times in 5,589 Posts Dislikes: 446 Disliked 194 Times in 169 Posts	Play around with it in GIMP and you should be able to fix that up. __________________ "Oh come on. Quit making excuses already. Even in a weird position, and doing it manualy, it only takes a couple of minutes. You are just being OCD about it or something." - Wile E "OMG the chair I'm sitting on! It has a penus!! " - Black Panther "Signatures should not contain quotes. It makes no sense." - DanTheBanjoman I doesnt afraid of anything!

07-02-2012, 11:19 PM	#22
DaveK Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,237 Thanks: 285 Thanked 522 Times in 324 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	One of the parks in the area I live. I cycle over a bridge crossing a main road and train tracks and I get a nicer vantage point.

10-28-2012, 09:22 PM	#23
DaveK Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 2,237 Thanks: 285 Thanked 522 Times in 324 Posts Dislikes: 0 Disliked 1 Time in 1 Post	From the bottom of Three Rock Mountain overlooking Dublin. I had a better view halfway up the mountain but never thought to take a panorama, there's an even higher view where the mountain bike trails are so I'll probably take another one during the week.

10-28-2012, 10:32 PM	#24
MRCL Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Switzerland Posts: 2,974 Thanks: 237 Thanked 1,363 Times in 776 Posts Dislikes: 3 Disliked 12 Times in 9 Posts	There are a few I made during my basic training in the army with my Samsung Pixon. This is sort of the "most goodest." The view from our casern located in Lucerne. You can see mount Pilatus and mount Titlis, two very distinct mountains in central Switzerland. Pilatus is the prominent mass of rock left to the middle, and mount Titlis is this white shark fin like mass of rock a bit more to the left of Pilatus.

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