Panoramic Photography
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8 Jun 2008, 01:40
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I'm just getting used to this, but here's my first photograph:
here
Most of my work will be based on various landscapes around my
town.
The photographs in that shot weren't taken with a tripod or light meter so had to do my best to merge them in, but the rest that will follow will be done properly.
Constructive criticism welcome x)
here
Most of my work will be based on various landscapes around my
town.The photographs in that shot weren't taken with a tripod or light meter so had to do my best to merge them in, but the rest that will follow will be done properly.
Constructive criticism welcome x)
I shot them with a fuji s9000 and used photoshop CS2. I'm aware CS3 has auto merge tools, and there are various programs that also do it for you, but never had a chance to check them out.
other than the stuff I already mentioned, its a nice picture.
Will try get my CS3 installation working, there was a topic in this months 'Photography monthly' magazine on panoramic photography (which got me into doing this one!) so when I shoot my next one properly I'll get an automerger software to do the job for me and edit the rest if need be. Cheers.
edit:
Also just realised while doing the border, I had soft edges still on my brush :{
http://two.xthost.info/Pandaaa/Brynbach.jpg
Was done with an automerger, I'm damn impressed with these :)))
*Ignore the pissy borders, I don't know why they come like that: select > layer > border > fill :?
selection->modify->contract->few pixels, depends on the size of picture, play with it.
invert selection
fill->black
this one is taken with just normal digital camera and I didnt take enough pictures, thus the errors in merging. couldnt bother fixing them manually. http://dec.pp.fi/p/ps/nl_hq.jpg
I'll try that border method later :>
took this one 2004 in hong kong, i don't know why i post it, it's no big panorama :P
And this guy sometimes takes vertical panoramas of trees: http://teddy-lee.deviantart.com/gallery/
Some ideas:
At what time of the day did you take the picture? The contrast is quite high. If you can, avoid the midday sun and try
shooting in the morning/evening. Try to avoid shooting against the light if you don't have a graduated ND filter.
Don't use angles that are too wide (stay above 18mm) to avoid distortions. Instead take more pictures and make sure they overlap (:
The shot was taken about 4pm so wasn't midday sun, although most of my stuff are either dusk/dawn now anyway.
I had some filters arrive from Hong Kong yesterday too (UV, Polarized and an ND4)
As I said, this is my first shot, so wasn't really expecting too much, just want to get used to the overlapping part, so my next stuff will be with filters/tripod.
My lens is a 28-300mm so it wasn't too wide (I shot around 50mm which is standard anyway) and I'll check those photographs out now :)
Keep'm coming !
I prefer snow though, too bad it's not snowing now :<