Playing with Panoramics

[ronrdrcr]

I think I've got em down now







What do you think?

Ron

[Sbyllek]

I think you do Ron!
Very nice

[matthewp]

Very nice! What's your technique?

[ronrdrcr]

It's really easy

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Ron

[JoshHibbard]

thats kinda tricky to do, how do you do yoursso well? even withthat program, this was my attemppt

[pashnit]

Originally Posted by JoshHibbard

thats kinda tricky to do, how do you do yoursso well? even withthat program, this was my attemppt

Little easier to do outside. When you take the shot, stand facing the middle of the left to right shot both feet planted, shoulder over hips. Rotate left at the waist and shoot the shot. To take the 2nd shot, overlap that 2nd shot with some line or object the program can grab. Another hint to get the lighting right is to take each shot, return to the far left to meter the camera (usual done by pushing button halfway down), that way the exposure and shutter speed will be same for each photo.

So rotating at the waist, take the 3-4 shots, keep camera level.

Example of not resetting the exposure by returning to the first shot to get the same exposure/shutter speed... great shot, but sky doesn't quite match.

[pashnit]

Example of shooting in portrait mode. This is two shots. Find the seam?

Trick is to shoot up, and not at eye level, so create sense of just how immense the Giant Sequoia is. Hint of camera height is compare it with fence at right. About 12 inches off ground.

If you didn't catch it, the people are inside the tree. Third hint is purposely using the tree at right to help with sense of scale.

[pashnit]

2nd example of a two-shot panoramic, but using portrait mode. Focal width is greatly increased using this technique. More sky, more foreground.

People walking create sense of motion. Can see the seam in the trees, but otherwise glued together pretty good.

[pashnit]

Another technique for really wide + tall focal width is shoot a 'matrix'. This is four photos. Two across the top, two across the bottom, make sure everything overlaps well for the PhotoStitch program to work with. See any seams?

This Hetch Hetchy Reservoir near Yosemite NP btw.

[pashnit]

And lastly, why only shoot left to right panoramics?

This is a vertical panoramic. This is three stacked shots- one on top of the other. One straight down, one in the middle, one for sky. So the focal height is a full 90+ degrees. Cool, eh?



Hint as to what the vertical panoramic shot looks like with no cropping. This is two shots, one on top of the other. To help the PhotoStitch program a bit with less 'bending' of the photos, should probably go three shots. This shot is a little boring, it'd probably help to create some sort of motion or sense of scale. Person standing beside the giant sequioa would be ideal.



Not panoramic, but creating a sense of scale... Like this for example...