Post your panoramas!

[DB_SamX]

Question on panos:

I usually shoot in RAW but Autostitch can only read jpegs so all I did was adjust exposure in UFRaw, open them in GIMP, smart sharpen, save as jpegs and finally stitch. I might then process to adjust colours, tone, contrast, etc.

On the other hand, I could process each RAW image individually before stitching but surely that could result in individual look for each image.

Is there a better/correct workflow?

 

[The_Abyss]

I use tifs exported from Lightroom, where I've normally balanced wb if necessary.

This post jogged my memory to post one from a week or so ago from a horribly rainy day in Sussex, from the top of Lewes castle. I thought I'd grab it to make a comparison with a better one I hope to get from the summer where there is more colour and a far better sky. So please excuse the dust spots - I didn't spend any time on this at all!

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Some ace shots in this thread, I love panoramas. Those Panospheres are brilliant

My point and shoot effort..

Dovestone, Manchester?

 

[DB_SamX]

(Famas, hope you don't mind I replicated your South Bank shot.)

Original is 17000 pixels wide, made up of 19 shots! But I am not sure how to process it; it looks kinda boring atm. Any suggestions?

 

[theNude]

(Famas, hope you don't mind I replicated your South Bank shot.)

Original is 17000 pixels wide, made up of 19 shots! But I am not sure how to process it; it looks kinda boring atm. Any suggestions?

literally looked at this and went ugghhhhhh havew to come back to that in less than 4 months

 

[theNude]

grrr trying to edit to unquote image but i have to log in 100000 times and then it sais i do not have permission GRRRRR. i am using two DSL connections and a load balancer and it think this is the cause.

 

[ChazHurst]

Sorry, hadn't been and checked for a response in this one!

Originally Posted by DoubleCheese
ChazHurst, is that Les Arcs 1800 by any chance?

Yes indeed, we were staying just a little bit up from Arc 1800.

I'm gonna say the second was taken from closer to Vallandry loved that view for 4 months in winter 2004

The second one is from the top of the Vagere lift that goes right up the middle from there.

 

[Derek W]

(Famas, hope you don't mind I replicated your South Bank shot.)

Original is 17000 pixels wide, made up of 19 shots! But I am not sure how to process it; it looks kinda boring atm. Any suggestions?

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Try back on a sunnier day is my suggestion. Not too crash hot on processing so cant really offer much. Possibly crop it from the handrails to get rid of the people on the left and right (framed by the bridges instead) Although the clouds add some interest it appears a little flat because of the greyness.

 

[DB_SamX]

literally looked at this and went ugghhhhhh havew to come back to that in less than 4 months

You abroad somewhere nic and sunny atm?

Try back on a sunnier day is my suggestion. Not too crash hot on processing so cant really offer much. Possibly crop it from the handrails to get rid of the people on the left and right (framed by the bridges instead) Although the clouds add some interest it appears a little flat because of the greyness.

Weather was really dull so all my pictures came out flat and not really worthy of posting; still hoping for something to "lift" it though. And the skyline from there isn't quite crappy tbh. Will try the crop anyway. Ta.

 

[Xbandito]

The view from our front window

adjusted as requested...

 

[Derek W]

The view from our front window

Could you straighten the horizon please

 

[DB_SamX]

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[NvidiaDan]

 

[DB_SamX]

^I'd frame and hang those on a wall. Hope there's details in the flowers - can't tell here.

 

[Mr.Nick]

They're amazing NvidiaDan, good work

 

[jeffa123]

A lot of the new canon, Sony and Panasonic cameras do it as a built in feature these days without having to exposure lock. Admittedly the images are restricted to something like 2MP from a 10MP CCD.
I have the latest Fuji which has it built in and have yet to get out to try it out. It is good for Landscapes or tall architecture which requires a left to right pan or level to verticle.
The importance when manually taking panoramas is that you don't make it look like one part of the photo is going to fall off the picture or in some cases look like the leaning tower of Piza!

I did one of the Golden gate bridge manually and no matter how I stitched it together, one tower always looked as if it was going to slip into the water. I ended up deleting the images and never bothering with them again because the distortion was too great. Anything with water in them like a waterfall should be avoided as well, unless you wish to use motion blur as a picture mechanism. but something like Victoria falls on a verticle pan is a no no.

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

 

[Spit]

Love those Nvidiadan

 

[Born_2_Kill_83]

 

[VirtualAdept]

Right, this is not only my first attempt at a panoramic, its only my third attempt at using full auto.
No PP apart from stitching it together and b&w'ing it.