Oh wow! This is insane! The perfection of the lighting all the way through this image, the gradient of the sky, the reflection all the way across the waters edge. Good eye Cuban!
I don't think there is anything wrong with the moderators participating in the challenges. As a matter of fact, I think they should as long as they are not the ones that are judging.
I have the same shot that I cropped from a single pic.
I thought it was pretty good, now I realize it sucks.
Thanks alot.
Yeah! It makes me want to go and reshoot my Seattle skyline.
I'm really impressed by all the panos so far. Some really great entries. I'm not surprised at all that most are of cityscapes and landscapes obviously...classic panorama subject matter.
The interesting thing that I have discovered using panorama is that I can use a telephoto or zoom lens at say 200mm to take a "panorama" of something that you could easily fit full-frame using say a 50mm lens, and it basically increases the megapixel of your camera. So you have a lot more cropping and enlarging options while keeping all of the detail and sharpness. It takes a little more time, but for someone like me that only has a 6mp camera, I would guesstimate that it would be like shooting with a 20mp camera.
I think they're both great! They both have a unique character to them - Don't put your work down ;-)
BTW - What frickin' lens were you using that you snapped that all in one shot and actually had to crop it down?! :-)
Thanks for your comment, but Cuban's shot is heads and tails better than my effort.
(much like everyone else's in this thread)
Looking back at the info from the shot, it says 17mm on a 30D camera.
At the time this was taken, I think the only lens I had at that mm was a Tamron 17-50 f2.8.
The crop comes in when I remove some of the top and some of the bottom.
WOW... thanks for all the wonderful compliments on my entry. I was inspired by the work Baldy and Andy were doing a while back with their pano project. It took me several attempts to get this shot right due to fog and wind making it impossible to capture what I wanted. I got lucky on my last day in San Fran when I decided to head out one last time to Treasure Island. The wind was calm and it was an extremely clear night.
I took this with a Nikon 70-300mm VR lens that I barrowed from a friend. I shot this in portrait orientation at a focal length of about 90mm. Basically, I set it so it would fill as much of the frame as possible. They were about 20 second exposures and I used the long exposure NR feature of my D300. I think the original pano I stitched was composed of about 20 frames. It was a huge file. What I ended up doing is workin with each frame individually in post, making sure not to mess with the exposure. Basically just some curve and sharpness adjustments. Then I stitched it. The version I posted is actually a crop of the original. Here is another wider crop but still not the full pano. The full pano spans from the Oakland Bay Bridge, on the left, all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge on the right.
I had to dumb down my files to 72 dpi and 500 pixels on the longest side. This was a total of 48 shots. There are a bunch of artifacts from the blending which I wasn't able to get rid of. This was my first attempt at such a large pano and I was being hurried by the wife to "get going" so I was not able to get everything as I wanted it and had to rush the panning.
Does anybody have any other stitching ideas other than PS? I would love to try them.
So here's the reason why I don't do more panoramas. They take a lot of work. They can be really impressive to look at, assuming you have a large monitor. But then what do you do with them? Make them the top banner on a website? Does anyone print them? If so, do you crop them to a particular size? Do you find it to be cost-prohibitive the mat and frame them? I have printed the three I posted. In fact, one I had framed and donated to a local charity auction and it went for pretty good money. I was pleased. I found an online company called FrameDestination.com where you can enter in the size of your artwork -- in this case 10x30 -- and they will send you a semi-custom frame and mat set (16x36) for fairly reasonable money. I am curious what others are doing.
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I'm sure you are both correct - It is a personal choice. I love the sharing aspect of the challenges, that really is enough for me.
View of Mt. Lafayette, Mt. Lincoln, Little Haystack, and Mt. Liberty from Cannon Mtn. in the Franconia Notch State Park
Mt. Monadnock at sunset
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I have the same shot that I cropped from a single pic.
I thought it was pretty good, now I realize it sucks.
Thanks alot.
Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
I'm really impressed by all the panos so far. Some really great entries. I'm not surprised at all that most are of cityscapes and landscapes obviously...classic panorama subject matter.
The interesting thing that I have discovered using panorama is that I can use a telephoto or zoom lens at say 200mm to take a "panorama" of something that you could easily fit full-frame using say a 50mm lens, and it basically increases the megapixel of your camera. So you have a lot more cropping and enlarging options while keeping all of the detail and sharpness. It takes a little more time, but for someone like me that only has a 6mp camera, I would guesstimate that it would be like shooting with a 20mp camera.
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BTW - What frickin' lens were you using that you snapped that all in one shot and actually had to crop it down?! :-)
Thanks for your comment, but Cuban's shot is heads and tails better than my effort.
(much like everyone else's in this thread)
Looking back at the info from the shot, it says 17mm on a 30D camera.
At the time this was taken, I think the only lens I had at that mm was a Tamron 17-50 f2.8.
The crop comes in when I remove some of the top and some of the bottom.
Basking in the shadows of yesterday's triumphs'.
Gotta respect that.
Sean, you're Water, Rocks, Waves shot reminded me of a pano I took in Oregon a few months ago. I love seascapes.
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Greg, love the colors of this shot!
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Peter, this is such an interesting shot. Love it!
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Love the processing and feel of this one.
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Alpine...one of my favorite pastimes. Very nice pano.
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Sweet! Would love to see the entire valley.
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Chris, amazing colors and calmness.
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Aaron, amazing!
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Adam, amazing panos!
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Love the light in this one!
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I took this with a Nikon 70-300mm VR lens that I barrowed from a friend. I shot this in portrait orientation at a focal length of about 90mm. Basically, I set it so it would fill as much of the frame as possible. They were about 20 second exposures and I used the long exposure NR feature of my D300. I think the original pano I stitched was composed of about 20 frames. It was a huge file. What I ended up doing is workin with each frame individually in post, making sure not to mess with the exposure. Basically just some curve and sharpness adjustments. Then I stitched it. The version I posted is actually a crop of the original. Here is another wider crop but still not the full pano. The full pano spans from the Oakland Bay Bridge, on the left, all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge on the right.
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I'm trying now. So would I!
Does anybody have any other stitching ideas other than PS? I would love to try them.
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Portland head light, Maine. 9 shots
Brooklyn bridge and South ST NYC. 8 shots
Yosemite valley, California. 8 shots
Machu Picchu in the morning, we had some amazing fog and clouds moving in and out all day. 3 horizontal shots
View from the hike up to (almost at) the Gate of the Sun. 6 vertical shots
View of the myriad colors in the city of Quito, Ecuador (foggy and cloudy day also). 5 vertical shots
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