Maui Panoramics

mercphoto

Hello all. I have little experience with panaromics but I tried a few while on honeymoon. I pretty happy with the results here. Taken with a Canon 40D and a 17-40/4L lens. Four shots each, manual exposure, and stitched in Photoshop. It was a lovely place to visit and lots of great photo ops!

This was taken along the Road to Hana:


This was taken near the town of Lahaina:

schmoo

Hi Bill, and congrats!

These are wonderful panos, esp knowing now that you've not really done them before. I find composition of the pano to be much tricker than it seems, but you have a great sense of scale and power in these.

coscorrosa

The big news here is that your wife allowed you to bring the gear on the honeymoon. That's a keeper!

It is tricky trying to find a good composition with a pano (similar to finding a good one with a super wide angle lens). I still have issues with this, and often don't see the flaws in the composition until after I get them stitched together. I didn't start shooting panos until Photoshop CS3 came out, as CS2 was horrible at stitching them together.

On the first, I might have tried to go even wider so that the vegetation would not cut out in the lower left, but that might not have been possible. Looks like there's a lot of potential at this location, I love cliffs on the coastline.