Ben F |
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Panoramic pictures
Just curious, may seem like a stupid question, but I was just walking through our local markets ,and there was a small little shop with reaalllyyy nice framed panoramic landscape pictures, and I was just curious as to how you take panoramic pictures.??
Are there lenses that take them, or do u simply use normal lenses and ask in the printing for panoramic pictures or something??
im guessing there might be a few ways to go about it, just after some ideas. I love taking landscape shots and it really does look good in panoramic!thanks in advance.
August 08, 2004
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Steven Chaitoff |
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Yes Ben you just ask your printer to make pans. They will typically chop off equal portions of the top & bottom of the print to make a typical pan ratio. I'm not postive about photography conventions, but in video, u'll typically use a ratio of 6:11 (widescreen short pan) or the more common 1:2.35 (long panorama height vs. length.) This means you have to take a normal shot & visualize the final result, keeping in mind that the top & bottom won't be there. Again with video, some people put electrical tape on the lens to physically block out portions that won't be in the final picture (this is pretty common in low budget films) but don't do it with your own camera. Anyway, any way you do it, you will have to sacrifice image quality because you're cutting down on the picture. I don't know of any lens or something that can take advantage of optics to create a panorama, but it mat exist.
August 08, 2004
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Vince Broesch |
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There are also special panorama cameras. They use a "swing lens" the lens pans (rotates) as the image is being projected onto the film. It's a wierd thing. But that is really the right way to take a panorama. Most labs are not set up to print the resulting long 35mm neg, it's about 3 times longer than the normal neg. If you want to know more search for "horizon 202" on the internet. Vince
www.PhotoAgo.com
August 08, 2004
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Samuel Smith |
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some cameras offer a panorama mode .
they block out the frame for you ?
but if you know anything about computers , you can stitch pictures together,photoshop?
sambo
August 11, 2004
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Kevin M. Berning |
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If you have a digital camera you should try taking a few pictures. and use autostitch program which you can download for free. It does all of the blending for you, all you have to do is give it the pictures and it does all the work of putting them together for you. you can find it at this website. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html here is a picture that I made using autostitch.
June 21, 2006
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Kevin M. Berning |
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Panoramic of horses in the rain
This took about 5 of or 6 pictures.
Kevin M. Berning
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If you have a digital camera you should try taking a few pictures. and use autostitch program which you can download for free. It does all of the blending for you, all you have to do is give it the pictures and it does all the work of putting them together for you. you can find it at this website.http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html here is a picture that I made using autostitch.
June 21, 2006
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Brock E. Litton |
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fuji also makes a GS 617 panoramic camera that creates a slide as the name implies 6 cm by 17 cm. they are discontinued though. Horseman also just released a 617 camera also, runs about 5 grand Brock
June 21, 2006
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John G. Clifford Jr |
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I have several single- and multi-row panos in my gallery here on BP. Using a digital camera makes pano photography relatively easy and painless, but you also need good pano software for the highest quality panos. Many cameras come with free pano software which is good for single row panos, but this software can run into difficulties when individual shots aren't properly aligned. In my opinion, the best pano software is Pano Tools, which is freeware, but it is very hard to use without a graphical front end. Several people make these front ends; my favorite is PT Assembler. Look on http://www.tawbaware.com for PT Assembler.
June 23, 2006
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John G. Clifford Jr |
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City On A Hill
ISO 100, Pentax SMC Takumar 300/4 (M42), 1/500 @ f/8, 2x2 image multi-row panorama, post-processed w/PWP 3.5, assembled with PT Assembler to 4248 x 2124 (2:1 aspect ratio) image
We don't often think of Seattle as a city surrounded by mountains... but it is. The backdrop is the Olympic range, with Mt Olympic (at the left edge) and Mt Constitution visible.
John G. Clifford Jr
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I have several single- and multi-row panos in my gallery here on BP.Using a digital camera makes pano photography relatively easy and painless, but you also need good pano software for the highest quality panos. Many cameras come with free pano software which is good for single row panos, but this software can run into difficulties when individual shots aren't properly aligned. In my opinion, the best pano software is Pano Tools, which is freeware, but it is very hard to use without a graphical front end. Several people make these front ends; my favorite is PT Assembler. Look on http://www.tawbaware.com for PT Assembler.
June 23, 2006
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