Lost my panorama virginity this weekend

11/13/2006 10:16:06 PM · #1

Well, I finally got to take my 30D out and stretch my legs a little. We went camping in the lowcountry and I managed to get a few shots off. This is my first attempt at a panorama shot. It's 9 images stitched together. Rough and dirty edit.

Opinions appreciated...

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

11/14/2006 07:22:45 AM · #2

OK, so I admit it's nothing special...

Morning bumpity bump.

Jaded_Housewife

Canon EOS-5D

11/14/2006 07:24:59 AM · #3

very cool. I've been wanting to try this too. Did you use a program to put them together?

albc28

Canon EOS-50D

Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II

11/14/2006 07:43:11 AM · #4

How did you get your image resized to fit on DPC? I have a couple that I've wanted to put on. One is 96 x 8 in. (haha i know impossible to get on DPC). The other one is 40 x 7.5in.

Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

11/14/2006 07:55:34 AM · #5

As panoramas go, fairly generic, but it is well-stitched. The colors have gone goofy in the mid-sky, the shadows are blocked up, the lighthouse is leaning over. Just for the heck of it I fixed all that up as best I could on such a small original.

Robt.

oscarmeyer

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 II

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

11/14/2006 08:09:35 AM · #6

Originally posted by jaded_youth:

very cool. I've been wanting to try this too. Did you use a program to put them together?

You can do it with photoshop! Open your shoots and go file - automate - photomerge.

mamba

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

11/14/2006 08:19:38 AM · #7

hehe, from my shots for the hdr challenge i have somehow ended up with a shot that looks like a panorama :P

Nothing great in fact i think its probably awful but i like the colours.

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

11/14/2006 11:29:52 AM · #8

Thanks for the input guys.

Originally posted by jaded_youth:

Did you use a program to put them together?

I tried photostitch but HATED the results. I ended up layering it up in CS2 and manually stitching it. I had to do a fair amount of perspective adjustments to the layers to get the fence to line up.

Originally posted by albc28:

How did you get your image resized to fit on DPC? I have a couple that I've wanted to put on. One is 96 x 8 in. (haha i know impossible to get on DPC). The other one is 40 x 7.5in.

I downsized the he!! out of it! I saved for web and set my width at 640 px. Lost a ton of detail in the process which blocked up the gradient in the sky among other things.

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

As panoramas go, fairly generic, but it is well-stitched.

Thanks, coming from you that's a heck of a compliment. I agree that it's pretty generic, I didn't have the opportunity to re-shoot at a more agreeable time of day and the lighting is much more harsh than I would've liked. It was meant to be an experiment in multiple image stitching.

Originally posted by Bear_Music:

The colors have gone goofy in the mid-sky, the shadows are blocked up, the lighthouse is leaning over. Just for the heck of it I fixed all that up as best I could on such a small original.

I tried throwing in a gradient because the natural sky was very goofy once I had it all stitched. I selected out the natural sky and replaced it with a gradient. It was done quickly which is why I think the colors are still a bit offish. I did a lot of skewing of the perspective while lining up the fence in the foreground but ironically the lighthouse is the only shot where I didn't adjust for perspective. The "lean" is probably coming from the fact that I wasn't able to get far enough away from the lighthouse to adjust for some lens distortion (I'm guessing here).

@mamba... Nice shot!

Thanks again for the input...

Robert, do you have any more advice on the "lighthouse lean"? Should I adjust the image that contains the lighthouse and then re-adjust the remaining images to match?

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Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

11/14/2006 11:35:18 AM · #9

Originally posted by Palmetto_Pixels:

Robert, do you have any more advice on the "lighthouse lean"? Should I adjust the image that contains the lighthouse and then re-adjust the remaining images to match?

Well, on MY version I used skew tool to straighten the lighthouse up, applying to the whole image but from the right side. There's an inconsistency where the houses by the lighthouse are now skewed differently than the ones at the far left edge, so... If you can fix it before stitching, in such a way that doesn't happen, great. I'm not advocating taking the CONVERGENCE out of the lighthouse (it's way too extreme for that and they are tapered anyway, usually, so...) but just fixing it up so a line from center of roof to center of base is vertical in the finished image.

R.