The Panorama Thread [56k = no, expect widescreen stuff]

Ramseus said:
and it turns out that ISO 800 isn't even enough for a f3.5 lens at night (not doing starfails) and it's the highest usable speed my camera goes to, ah well
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Why not use bulb?
 
Crater Lake, OR. Not the best, but it's really freaking blue.

craterlake1.jpg
 
Why not use bulb?
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Read his comment again, he doesn't want to do startrails.

You need a wide, fast lens to do that properly. Acceptable ISO 3200 performance is ideal.
 
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/masona/4894512547/in/set-72157624731280952/

Table mountain with the sunset.

i actually didnt realise but some people have mentioned how it looks like a night and day picture, night on the left, day on the right. i just thought it looked nice. its not perfect, i tried to do my best pano'ing with my little SD400, i need to remember to rotate it with my thumb in the tripod mount and index finger on top, that way it kinda rotates about one of the CCD's axes and you get less distortion

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masona/4894996824/in/set-72157624731280952/

Melkbosstrand at sunset. little too dark, but its difficult to try control the exposure on this camera, i normally try go for a middling exposure then use the continuous shooting mode while rotating the camera (stops it from re-focusing and re-metering each shot so at least they all all exposed the same) the sun was super bright though.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/masona/4895056098/in/set-72157624731280952/

and finally, i tried a little experiment, seemed to work ok and CS3 had little trouble stitching and blending water.

i find im having to do this stitching/pano's alot because the lens on this camera just isnt wide enough to capture the vastness of things in SA


Edit: ummm how do i embed my photos from flickr? theyve changed it all over there now, you get a link and a HTML code thats it.
 
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"Small" panorama of Charleston, WV:
http://img522.imageshack.**/img522/8995/eastwestcompact.jpg

Shot with my Sony DSC-W150.
 
Something from Wales - the view from the Glyders. Very pretty. Probably just under 1000m at that point.



Taken on a Panasonic TZ7. As a thought - how many people posting here use tripods when taking them?
 
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You have to overlap, so the stitching software can find the points to connect. For the best stitching accuracy you do have to rotate the camera around the nodal point to get perfect alignment, though. That is, around the point where the light entering the lens would converge, were there no glass in the way to refract it.

nodal.jpg
sigma1.gif


And the best way to do this is with a panoramic tripod head, such as this one:

https://pic.armedcats.net/i/ic/icebone/2011/05/18/IMG_0072-Blog.jpg
 
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