Daegu, South Korea

Crokey

When my girlfriend told me to "go take a hike" I must have misunderstood because of the look of disappointment on her face when I returned:dunno Anyway, I managed to get these shots of the western edge of Daegu, the 3rd largest city in South Korea around sunset.





P.S. My apartment is in the bottom right hand corner of the second one, but I don't get a view like this out my window!!!

Snowgirl

You did take her literally, didn't you? Snicker.
Excellent viewpoint for taking in the whole scene. My personal preference is for the 2nd one as the expanse of the city is more evident. In the first one, the rock outcropping dominates the scene more.
Are these stitched panos? or wide angle cropped?

Crokey

Snowgirl wrote: »

You did take her literally, didn't you? Snicker.
Excellent viewpoint for taking in the whole scene. My personal preference is for the 2nd one as the expanse of the city is more evident. In the first one, the rock outcropping dominates the scene more.
Are these stitched panos? or wide angle cropped?

Thanks Snowgirl, both are stitched panos. The first is an 11 photo stitch shot at 25mm and the second is stitched from 7 vertical photos at 80mm.

Snowgirl

Crokey wrote: »

Thanks Snowgirl, both are stitched panos. The first is an 11 photo stitch shot at 25mm and the second is stitched from 7 vertical photos at 80mm.

I think the 7 vertical shots worked well stitched together.
I'm still learning to do this.

Crokey

Snowgirl wrote: »

I think the 7 vertical shots worked well stitched together.
I'm still learning to do this.

Longer focal lengths are much easier to stitch as there is much less distortion, and it is how I would recommend to work, however depth of field becomes an issue,and the rock in the right of the first photo was only about a meter from the camera. I like to align and stitch 2 photos at a time rather than letting photoshop do them all at once, as I think the effect is better. So, I would start with a photo on the left/right, align it with it's neighbor using Reposition rather than auto(auto squeezes and distorts too much for my liking, and I'll end up having to crop too much of my image away). Then I get photoshop to blend those 2 into a panorama. I would then check the seam where they join for any issues, which, as long as there was significant overlap(I use between 30 and 50% when taking the shots) there shouldn't be any issue. Merge those two layers into 1(Merge Visible, just remember to turn all the other layers visibility off!).I now take that 2 shot blend, choose the photo next to that and do the same thing. I keep going till it's all done. It's more time-consuming than automating it(although you could easily create an action to do it), but I've gotten better results that way.

Snowgirl

THANK YOU so much for that detailed explanation. If we ever get the sheath of black ice off the roads here, I'll have to head out and give it a try. The only pano I've done (so far) I overlapped images about 30-35%. It covers 180 degrees. I ended up on the bluff with no tripod so I sat on a rock and used my knees to form a tripod and then pivoted my whole body around. Camera was set for vertical. When I blended the shots, though, I used the auto function. Next time I'll try your method.

Bailiejo

#2 is absolutely beautiful. Hmmm, panoramic shots..... that's something I'll add to my 'learning' wish list. Do you know if Photo Shop Elements has that feature?

Crokey

Bailiejo wrote: »

#2 is absolutely beautiful. Hmmm, panoramic shots..... that's something I'll add to my 'learning' wish list. Do you know if Photo Shop Elements has that feature?

Thanks Bailiejo,
I'm fairly sure that Elements has this feature as it has been around for a while now. Photomerge is what your looking for, I'm not even sure where to find it in Photoshop anymore as I have it assigned to keyboard shortcuts! I don't use adobe bridge but I think you can select the photos you want to merge in that and tell it to merge them using Elements. Google it and I'm sure you can find an easy tutorial.

Crokey

Another from the same hike...I'

Crokey

Another from the same hike:

Crokey

The last one, promise!
This is the last one from that hike last week, honestly! I went up again today but avoided taking any pics of the city