Panorama Photography

[jparris]

Hi everyone!
This is my first post on the Pbase Forums, so i hope that i get it right

I have been getting into panorama photography with my canon 10D, taking sometimes 10, 20, and even 40 pictures to merge together into a massive panorama (the 40 photo pano ended up being a little over a gig, and 140" long). I made a gallery with a few of my favorites, and wanted some feedback. http://www.pbase.com/jparris/pwork_pano/ Also, if anyone else has a panorama gallery out there, let me know! I would love to see how other people are using this great feature of digital photography hitherto prohibitive with my film-slrs.

Regards!!
Julian Parris
http://www.pbase.com/jparris/

[kodack]

Hiya Julian.

I am into panoramics myself and I enjoyed your pictures (left you feeback). One thing I have run into myself, and noticed a little in your beach photos, is that sometimes the sky bands where two images were merged. Once you know what to look for you can easily see where the individual images were.

There are probably several ways of getting rid of them. The method I use is the clone tool into a new layer and then I fine tune the opacity to occlude the banding without making it obvious I cloned. It makes the final image indistinguishable from a single image panoramic.

I have a few panoramics done this way on my Snoqualmie page but I need to upload larger versions.

Mike

[jparris]

Yeah, i never did like how that photo has those artifacts. Usually I use use lots of layer-masking to correct it, but for some reason, I don't think I did so on the photo you were talking about. Back to the drawing board on that one

[455rocket]

I like your panoramas a lot, especially the one with the rays of sunshine (Sands Beach, San Diego). I've done a few myself the first ones I did manually using Corel Photopaint 8.0 to stitch the photos together (one, not on pbase, involved a group of people some of which had moved ... I tried using software but the results were terrible so I did it manually and it came out well but it was a lot of work. After getting the hang of the manual stitch together I did several that way. However, after using arcsoft panorama maker I've never done it the manual route again. I use the software to do the bulk of the work, then give the junctions a quick touch up to make them less obvious. I have a few of them on pbase (a mix of pure manual and software plus a touch up).
ps I had to give some of your other more interesting galleries a quick look too!

[lassendave]

I have a nice panorama of fall colors in the Eastern Sierra at my gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/lassendave

Panoramas are a lot of fun to conceive of and execute! Really helps out with the "digital factor" of making it hard to do wide angles.

Dave

[klaudio]

Hi Julian ,

I like your panos. My favorite is probably the Hippie Tree. If I might, you seems to have some color consistency issue. Do you lock down everything in your shots? Sometimes even just the white balance can cause discrepancy. Some of the stiching sw, can do a good job at compensating, but nothing beats getting the consistency out of the camera in my experience.

Here is my wide gallery:

http://www.pbase.com/klaudio/wide

Claudio