Crater Lake Panorama

[Acid_Recruit]

Some of you may have seen the panorama of Crater Lake I posted in last weeks weekly challenge. Here it is just in case you missed it,



it obviously isn't perfect. So, I challenge you to make it work out. I've posted nine photographs taken of the lake that you should be able to stitch together to make a good panorama of the lake. The link to the pictures is here. Somehow, some of the shots were lost when I transferred files to my new PC, you'll have to make do with what I have left. Good luck, I can't wait to see what people come up with!

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[Kerensa]

By no means any good, it was a lot of fun though, I can't wait to see how good oithers get to do it. I might have another attempt at some point, but takes alot.

[StephenK]

Here you go Adam! I simply love panoramas! I was able to pull this much out of the collection you posted and
did a little of just about everything to it. I'm sending this up in two parts. The picture below is the reduced version,
and if you follow the link you'll find the full size one-meg jpg version. Thanks for posting such a nice scene! I keep
promising myself and my wife a trip to Crater Lake one day! A good panorama such as yours is close to the
next-best-thing for right now! :^)


To the full sized version:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll202/S...norama-full.jpg







PS... I'm working on another version that I'll likely be posting shortly..... :^)

[lynn55]

First time, I did practice panorama. It's very tough job.

[StephenK]

We'll call my last one the "evening" version... this one has a lot more daylight to it. :^)

Same thing with the link to the one meg size. Thanks again Adam! :^)

link to full size:
http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll202/S...ghter-full-.jpg

[robsarge]

Adam, nice first pan...somebody here told me once to shut off the Auto White Balance...that way, as you pan and the brightness changes, the camera won't try to correct...

[lynn55]

Good night


Setting Aperture priority and F/ 8

http://dptnt.com/2007/07/13-tips-for-bette...ma-photography/

[Acid_Recruit]

Thanks for the response everybody! Stephen, as always, great work. I prefer the "evening shot" over the day shot, but they are both great!

Robsarge and Lynn55, thanks for the advice. Like I said, this was done with a point and shoot, but I'll keep these tips in mind when i start shooting panoramas with my D60.

[StephenK]

Thank you Adam :^)

Panoramas are an amazing way of getting a camera to do something that a single shot just simply couldn't pull off!
The most important thing about any pano is to simply stand in one spot, turn on the same plane, and over-lap the
pictures generously. If you move your location in order to continue shooting then the shots from then-on will likely
not blend well.

You can get away with a lot of stuff with the distance landscape type shots... but it's the stuff up close that can
get really messy unless you're using a tripod with a panohead, and the whole things calibrated properly. And a
good stitching software is basically a "have to". In photoshop CS3 and CS4 they've finally perfected this process.
It not only aligns the photos quite beautifully but then blends the tones across the spectrum of the shots almost
flawlessly. You still have to go back and do all the raw editing with hue, contrast, lighting and finessing the over-all
balance, as you would with any photo, but at least you're able to do so across an even blend.

I was toying recently with the whole 360 degree style of panoramas that are now able to be viewed on the web
through a special image viewer.

This first one was a 180 degree pano which used about 12 shots to compose


Here's a link to the online pano viewer for this photo (after the page loads...go to the far right and pull down on the window slider in order to center
the image in the window.... then hold down your left mouse button and slide your mouse back and forth to activate the image-sweep.

http://mntwest.bravehost.com/pans/Pan-acro...m-tonners4.html


And this next one is a 360 degree pano, and was used as a practice-overview of a valley just outside of spokane. This one
took about 23 shots using a 24mm lens setting. They're still pretty rough but I was wanting to see what it took to pull-off.



And here's the link to the online viewer for this one was well.
http://mntwest.bravehost.com/pans/spokan-p...c-reducedx.html

Have fun with this stuff Adam! Take these kinds of pictures where-ever you go! I like to think of pano's as
Photography-Plus! :^)

[lynn55]

Great Job StephenK

May you help me find free download Panorama software?

http://www.google.com/search?q=free+panora...lient=firefox-a