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Hey that's neat. Its good I can click on it and see the fullsize too. Did you use a stitch program or did you put them together yourself?
Yes, you really have to click to see the full size image to get a feel for the scope of the photo. Even at that, it pales in comparison with the 43 inch wide print I made from the original. This was taken with my Nikon Coolpix P5100 point and shoot. A truly awesome P&S at 12.1 MP. I used the photo merge (auto stitch) in Photoshop CS 3 to compile it. Another thing that truly amazes me!
very well done..i have a show in October..just had a pan of mine printed, it's 15 feet long from 7 images joined..i had to have it printed in 5 ft. sections..does cs2 have the "stitch" program..it to me hrs. to do it manually..
Jim, I'll bet it was very tedious stitching them manually! I have CS 2 on an old computer and I just looked... yes, it's there under File/Automate/Photomerge. Not sure if it's as sophisticated as in CS 3, I don't recall using it in that version. I printed it to 43 inches because that was the biggest I could do on my Epson Photo 2200. It probably could have gone bigger without losing much. What did you shoot the original with to be able to do a 15 foot print? Years ago, pre digital, I had a photo printed to around 12X15 feet. It was a 4X5 transparency, Velvia as I recall.
Nice pano. There are quite a few spots where you can see where it was stitched together though... I've done some pano's and they are surely not an easy thing. Check out www.reallyrightstuff.com for some amazing info on lens paralax and distortion, etc to really start to understand pano's. I have tried various programs and always found the best (albeit hardest) way is to do it manually. It takes a lot to do it really well. That being said this is a nice one.
Carl
thanks for the info..i used my pentax*istdl ..only 6 mp but it looks pretty good..there was a deer in the image that i had not notice while shooting the pan..it covers ~ 150 degrees..i posted it here a while back , but to long to get on the page..
Carl, yes parallax and perspective are the enemies of stitching photos together. In this case, I used the the lens zoomed as wide as it would go, 35mm equivalent on the P 5100 in order to capture as much of the area as possible. Photoshop gives you options for how you want the perspective controlled when you merge. Keeping the buildings parallel gave the best results. The road in the foreground, Key Highway, is straight but got quite a bend as a result of being in the foreground when stitching the 35mm images together. I did a pano this summer of Newport News Shipyard as we passed by boat. It's several miles long and I shot many photos as we passed. Since the perspective changed on each photo, stitching them resulted in some obvious areas where the perspective changed as the photos were merged. Still, it made for an interesting view.