vertical pano using several landscape shots.
This reminded me of a similar shot I’ve taken.
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This reminded me of a similar shot I’ve taken.
Vertical Pano...NICE! Few people recognize can stitch up, (I thing it is bottom to top, but might be reversed) rather than the normal left to right of a more traditional pano. Notice how got rid of the distortion if had been a single shot with an ultra-wide angle lens...if it even had that field of view.
Truth be told this was about 6 images. Maybe more from memory. I did a lot of work in PS getting rid of cranes and scaffolding etc.
This is one I did by hand. Three panels that required a huge amount of skew correction as I was using wide angle and the camera angle was also depressed. As @mollyc suggested, 7 or 8 vertical panels would have been a much better approach. The alert viewer should be able to spot the dopplegangers along the bottom center.
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Tried it again in Affinity, with this result.
One of the dopplegangers still there. Could not figure out the perspective controls in Affinity so went back to Snow Leopard and did a quick clean-up in a very old version of Photoshop Elements. Lost a fair bit along the base, but as I say it was a quick edit.
One of the dopplegangers still there. Could not figure out the perspective controls in Affinity so went back to Snow Leopard and did a quick clean-up in a very old version of Photoshop Elements. Lost a fair bit along the base, but as I say it was a quick edit.
Talking about whack aspect ratios! I almost never shoot panoramas, but this one was shot with the built-in merging in the G5X. It doesn't support shooting panos from portrait mode, but I think in this case it would've been cropped down anyway.
I've also got a phone pano taken from the same area uncropped.
This was accomplished by stitching portrait shots together in order to capture the full extent of the drop off. This is from the welcome center at 12,000ft at Rocky Mountain National Park. Should you jump the railing, you'd be on your way to what has to be a few thousand foot drop off.
So this was my first attempt using Affinity to build the panorama. Colorado Springs and front range from the Austin Bluffs viewpoint. Minor clean-up later in PhotoShop Elements then resized in Graphic Converter.
here's another vertical panorama. This is three images stitched together top to bottom.
Great angle. Looks like that is a bit northwest of the standard tourist viewpoint. I was quite a bit east of downtown CS shooting from the Austin Bluffs.
I guess I may as well join in! Technically not a panorama but a single image cropped down.
From Wilkerson Pass on US 24, Colorado. Canon Powershot A550, 6 panels. Stitched nicely in Affinity despite lots of foreground. Pretty bland lighting and time of year, so I did what I could to punch up the lighting.
Ok that one I can't do, never been on 24 east of Fairplay! But I've got a panorama of the same mountains taken just ~15 miles due north:
Thought about throwing up my shot of the Collegiates, but given the time of the year I took it, I am sure others can do better. Instead have one that will be much more challenging to double down on. Taken last year on an ATV trip in the Castle area of Southern Alberta. Sartoris Road blocked by foreground. Four panels from my Fuji XP-90 stitched in Affinity, further processed in PhotoShop Elements.
You’re right, I’ve never been to Alberta! I also don’t really have any panoramas of the Collegiates, other than this one of Mt Princeton
And the bonus (not actually a pano) shot that I took in the same location, which I think I like a lot better:
At the time all I had with me was my 70-200. For some reason it’s one of my favorite landscape lenses!
And the bonus (not actually a pano) shot that I took in the same location, which I think I like a lot better:
At the time all I had with me was my 70-200. For some reason it’s one of my favorite landscape lenses!
Great images and I love this part of the state - from Fairplay down through Buena Vista, Salida and on into the San Luis Valley. Longer lenses are really my favorites for landscapes, especially here in Colorado with large distances, vast plains, high mountains - you name it.
Out last trip out there (which was 11 years ago
) we went down US24 to Buena Vista, and then back up to Leadville. I wanted to do independence pass, but we were limited on time. Definitely a nice part of the state, and very quiet in the summertime.
Kind of falls into the useful information category, but it would be nice to know how the images are stitched, as some apps or cameras do a much better job than others. Until I started using Affinity, everything I tried did such a lousy job especially in the sky, that I learned to stitch by hand. I found it to be easier than cleaning up something that had been auto-stitched.