Panoramas

[Geoff Chandler]

Keep sending them in folks - I have a few Pano ideas brewing - but can't get to do them for a couple of weeks .. meanwhile I shall enjoy seeing everyone elses contributions.

[American Nomad]

OK, here is one of the local mall yesterday. This thread has gotten me to just playing around. Instead of holding the camera in a normal fashion I turned it to the vertical to see if I could get a higher and wider view. The ceiling to the left is correct although it looks like it is not lined up. The obvious flaws that I saw were that the left escalator did not align and the woman in blue seems to be a twin. In reality that is how far she walked between photos.

[Geoff Chandler]

OK, here is one of the local mall yesterday. This thread has gotten me to just playing around. Instead of holding the camera in a normal fashion I turned it to the vertical to see if I could get a higher and wider view. The ceiling to the left is correct although it looks like it is not lined up. The obvious flaws that I saw were that the left escalator did not align and the woman in blue seems to be a twin. In reality that is how far she walked between photos.

How many shots did that one take? Did you paste portraits together - or did I mis-interpret that..? I really like this shot - Panoramas don't all have to be landscape type scenes.... more ideas brewing!
thanks
Geoff

[American Nomad]

Thanks Geoff. This was stitched together from 6 pictures using Photosuite 7. I have gotten in the habbit of bringing my camera with me wherever I go. (This drives my wife nuts!) When I saw this scene I thought it would be a good experiment for a panorama shot. I did not have a tripod so had to hand hold the camera. I just used the manual setting on my P-200. I was somewhat dissapointed in the outcome of the pics. If you notice, the left side of the pano seems to be brighter than the right side. I guess the auto function of my camera picked up different lighting conditions from one side of the mall to the next because the picture quality seemed to get worse as I panned from left to right. But as a recreational photo I guess it came out alright.

[EAP]

I agree with Geoff, the use of everyday scenes is great, especially for panoramas. I don't usually think about mundane subjects for photos; am getting some excellent ideas from this thread and others! I like the mall scene very much, even with the problems noted; it was a nicely composed shot. Where is that mall, though? There were hardly any people. Malls in my area are teen hang-outs and are usually so packed you can barely see the escalators.

[American Nomad]

Where is that mall, though? There were hardly any people. Malls in my area are teen hang-outs and are usually so packed you can barely see the escalators.

Thanks for the kind comments. This mall is in Newington, CT. It was on a Thursday night just before closing. The kids must hang out somewhere else because I haven't noticed them here like I have in other malls.

[Geoff Chandler]

Ok - time for another pic.
This one is the Croydon skyline as viewed from the Purley way.
It was a tad hazy - but I was there and with the camera - so I took it.
Sharpened up a little to help with the hazeiness.
Had a few goes with this - I also took a series of 8mp pics and tried to
join them up - appart from grinding the PC to a very slow crawl - the sun had
changed on one of them causing an annoying change of colour to the grass
and not the skyline - I gave up trying that set. This one is a crop instead
from an 8mp pic - then resized and sharpened up a tad.
Anyone that knows Croydon should recognise several features - including the
Crystal Palace towers over on the left, various buildings - the Croydon
Clocktower in the middle and the threepenny bit building over on the right.
Hope you like.
Comments very welcome

[wall]

I like your mall pano, Nomad. The composition is quite pleasing and well balanced.

Geoff, I sometimes make panoramas from crops too. Good for when I don't have time to set up the tripod or when exposure is hard to get right. An example:

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

[Geoff Chandler]

Wall - thanks for the reassurance.
I think I need to be strict with myself - if I am going to do a proper
panorama I need to use the tripod and manual exposure (or exposure lock)
and I don't need to hang around! - With the Croydon skyline I took a wide
veiw first (which I ended up cropping) then I took a series of shots at a
slightly narrower angle - to help avoid abberations (distortions) so stitching
would be easier. However inbetween shot 1 & 2 the sun came out a bit and
so the grass changed colour. I was in a hurry and didn't notice, so I just
took shot 3 etc and returned home to find that I couldn't reasonably do
much with it.
I'm enjoying this thread even if it is a bit slower than some - maybe a few more Pano's will filter in - next week I am working dayshifts over the
weekend - so I will go up on the roof of my building and get some shots
around the Croydon area from there specifically for stitching into Panoramas.

[jsla]

A little night pano I worked up (with the help of Stitch Assist)