Duxford Panorama Shots – 23Jul11

Despite several visits here and despite being an avid admirer of what you regularly post here I have not come to terms with the distorted images. I appreciate them but they just don’t work for me. But I will still look out for your next batch of ” conventional” images!:)

I use a program called PTgui for panorama’s as it’s very powerful, can handle RAW camera images, match exposures across frames and has a ton of tools for correcting the distortion you encounter. Very handy for panorama’s over WWII airfields if yo don’t have a wide angle lens.

A good tip with Panorama’s is to use a lens with 50mm + focal length and overlay each image by at least 1/3rd. And also remember that while your mapping out a square or rectangle in your mind, you are in fact shooting the inside of a sphere in many cases so if you don’t compensate and shoot more of the edge of your scene than you need you’ll end up with a picture that’s hard to crop square once it’s stitched.

The last panorama I took was from of the bell tower in Florence, Italy and by the time it was stitched had come out at 2.5 wide. I still haven’t found a shop that can actually print it!

blackcat54

I use the ‘Widscreen’ size with the ‘Direction’ arrow pointing down. I turn the camera sideways so it is in portrait mode and the arrow is now pointing Right and pan left to right. Turning it from Landscape to Portrait gives you a bigger depth to the image.

Brian

Thanks for the tip Pen Pusher, will certainly give it a go.

I apologise for wandering off topic, but this shot is 12 images, 3 rows of 4. Because I was so close to the subject and unable to move back.

They’re brilliant!