5 and 12 picture panoramas

[jerryph]

A couple of pictures I was playing with this weekend and stitched together for an interesting effect:

5 picture panorama:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/2307505853_e305e87f6d.jpg
Bigger file HERE (http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2039/2307505853_8e989b74e5_o.jpg).

12 picture portrait panorama here:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2307505949_644e611944.jpg
Bigger file HERE (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3088/2307505949_a090072838_o.jpg).

I find panoramas interesting... these are not amazing pictures, but I find the results interesting. I have to try a 360 degree one day!

In the bottom picture, you can see we had, yes, more snow... another 4-5 inches. Did I mention that I am fed up of winter? lol

[dkippen]

Very Nice Jerry - another technique I'd like to try.

[LensBaby]

This would be very cool to try.

[ladyups]

Ok, you use a tripod to do this, correct? I really like these and need to give it a try. Maybe it will be nice enough this weekend to try it. I don't have as interesting a subject as you did but surely I can find something.

[jerryph]

No Mary, what I did was all hand held... for the first one I just swiveled at the hips and went from left to right making sure that I had a little overlap in picture for each one.

For the 12 pic one that is also hand held. I did it to really test out the program... 12 pictures taken in a random order and the last 2 were the top portion that you see. The program is called AutoPano, and works better than I ever could in PS or other stitching programs... its all automatic.

It outputs a huge picture that I load in PS3 and just crop it to something visually more appealing.

[jonrayner]

Very nice, I like them. I have had a go at a couple of panaramas with PS Elements 6 and ws very impressed with how well it stiches them shot together and also the way it 'removes' people who are on the overlap! In order to get a panoramic photo printed, do you have to go anywhere special to get them done?

[jerryph]

In order to get a panoramic photo printed, do you have to go anywhere special to get them done?

I do not know, but if I wanted to print these out on my home printer, I'd had better get ready to either resize them down or print them out all on a lot of papers and tape them together.

I suppose if they were resized, you could print those out about anywhere you liked.

[coffee]

Very cool :-)

[ladyups]

No Mary, what I did was all hand held... for the first one I just swiveled at the hips and went from left to right making sure that I had a little overlap in picture for each one.

For the 12 pic one that is also hand held. I did it to really test out the program... 12 pictures taken in a random order and the last 2 were the top portion that you see. The program is called AutoPano, and works better than I ever could in PS or other stitching programs... its all automatic.

It outputs a huge picture that I load in PS3 and just crop it to something visually more appealing.

Ok...I think I understand but I'm not sure I could hand hold and get nice, steady, sharp pictures...can you do it with a tripod? I've always been impressed with the way PS stitches pictures. I used to scan a lot of big pictures and just stitched them back. I'll check into this program.

[jerryph]

can you do it with a tripod?

I am sure you could.