Panorama's

[TrevorRobertson]

Okay taking panorama's is becoming more and more popular, it is somehting that I reallly enjoy.

here is one of my better ones, please share yours and if you have any tips let us know.

This is a shot from Japser, Alberta, Canada. Taken hand held, stiched with Adobe PhotoShop Elements then fixed a few of the mistakes in the full version of PhotoShop.

Photo taken in stich assist mode on the Canon S50

I will post a link to the image as it is rather wide to post here
http://homepage.mac.com/trevors/jasperpan.jpg

enjoy

 

[Anonymous]

Trevor, I have the S50 also. Have you figured out what the stitch assist mode buys you? I had as good or better luck just shooting a sequence of shots and making sure there was some overlap for each successive one. When I go to stitch assist, the resolution (or compression, can't remember now) switches itself to the next lower level.

 

[Anonymous]

When I do panoramas, I just take a series of photos (tripod works best) using landmarks to judge how wide each section of the shot should be. Then I use PhotoShop Elements 2.0's stitch feature to jostle them all into one frame. Here are two recent ones--one is a natural wetlands/swamp area that my father has created on his farm in northern Indiana. The other was taken from the top observation balcony at the Oasis Grand Hotel in Cancun. I'm really pleased overall with the quality. I printed a nearly full-sized version of each of them out, and they're well over 5' long.

 

[azcaddman]

you might look into panorama factory http://www.panoramafactory.com/

its not free, but does a great job, with little intervention needed

http://www.malone-az.com/pix/phx-pan/ is one i put togeather with it

and http://www.malone-az.com/pix/dam/ (7mb jpg) is one i did from 10 frames of 35mm film

 

[Anonymous]

Nice. Jasper is a wonderful park. That's the one with Lac Louise and the Athabasca glacier right? I visited Jasper and Banff when younger but I don't remember which is which.

 

[Anonymous]

Now that I've acutally seen the Cancun beach picture in one piece it looks funny! I know when I was standing out on the hotel top floor that view did not look like that.

When I see this photo, it seems like you are standing on the curve of an oval.

Just looks funny!

 

[Anonymous]

Now that I've acutally seen the Cancun beach picture in one piece it looks funny! I know when I was standing out on the hotel top floor that view did not look like that.

When I see this photo, it seems like you are standing on the curve of an oval.

Just looks funny!

S'cuz of the weird perspective from seeing 180*+ in one swoop. PS Elements has a setting where you can adjust the perspective. You lose some clarity but get a more realistic looking horizon line. In real life, the beach in our shot is pretty much straight, and the two wings of the hotel you can see (the A shaped buildings) are even with each other and facing the same direction (did that make sense??).

 

[Anonymous]

Now that I've acutally seen the Cancun beach picture in one piece it looks funny! I know when I was standing out on the hotel top floor that view did not look like that.

When I see this photo, it seems like you are standing on the curve of an oval.

Just looks funny!

btw, everyone welcome my awesome wife to the photo forum! woohoo!

 

[TrevorRobertson]

Nice. Jasper is a wonderful park. That's the one with Lac Louise and the Athabasca glacier right? I visited Jasper and Banff when younger but I don't remember which is which.

Well I live about a 4 hour drive from Japser and about 6 hours to Banff. They are both really nice places. Banff a much larger tourest (sp) the Jasper of Lac Louse is but Lac Louise also has some great sking hills.

Really nice places and you just can not take a bad picture!