Experimenting With Panoramas

[IanForbes]

I thought I'd try a little experiment and show some results. Unfortunately, because of original size of final result you can't see the differences because I had to reduce the size and quality to 100 dpi and about a 12 inch width.

I tried 3 different methods. First I just used an 18 mm wide angle lens and cut off the top and the bottom of the picture to form a panorama. Unfortunately, with most extreme wide angle lenses you get distortion on the edges. A 50 mm lens gives the closest approximate to what the human eye sees.

This is the result of an 18 mm wide angle lens trimmed top and bottom

This is the same picture taken with 6 separate shots taken vertically with a 180mm telephoto lens and then manually stiched together with lots of Photoshop editing. The lighting had to be adjusted continually to make the least amount of differences. It's still possible to see the joins if you look closely.

this is the same picture using Photoshop automerge and stitching 3 separate pictures together shot at about 5o mm lens.

You don't really see the loss in detail until you take a close up of the original picture using the telephoto lens as compared to using a wide angle lens and trimmed to a panorama. Here is just one example.

This is what often happens when manually trying to stitch a panorama together using separate photos. You can see how much altering is needed.

You can now appreciate what Kan Win has to do for his great panoramas.

[astral]

Excellent.

Thanks.

[filingaccount]

Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.

I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.

I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.

Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.

[IanForbes]

Good luck, filingaccount. That is a HUGE undertaking, but a nice exercise.

[Kan Win]

<br />Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.<br /><br />I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.<br /><br />I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.<br />Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.<br />

<br /><br />Hi <b>'filingaccount',</b><br /><br />Looked at your photo in the ' Panorama' thread of BKK and that took me breath away "WoW' is not the word , this is much better way to express my thinking of your you photo <img src='http://static.thaivisa.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br /><br />

<br />Good luck, filingaccount. That is a HUGE undertaking, but a nice exercise.<br />

<br /><br />I used to use Panorama Maker 3 and now Panorama Maker 5 just for me web photos, Google is your mate <b>'IanForbes'</b>, download it for free, try it and then if you like it<b> 'Buy it</b>". I will very soon.<br /><br />Kan Win <img src='http://static.thaivisa.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/wai.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Kan Win]

Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.

I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.

I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.

Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.

Hi 'filingaccount',

Looked at your photo in the ' Panorama' thread of BKK and that took me breath away "WoW' is not the word , this is much better way to express my thinking of your you photo

Good luck, filingaccount. That is a HUGE undertaking, but a nice exercise.

I used to use Panorama Maker 3 and now Panorama Maker 5 just for me web photos, Google is your mate 'IanForbes', download it for free, try it and then if you like it 'Buy it". I will very soon. I does RAW files also.

Kan Win

[filingaccount]

Thanks for the comparisons between different ways of making the images.

I am on a panorama kick with my poor old s3is... some come out ok, others horrible.

I am working on a 33 image, 8773x9332 pixel image. Photoshop auto-merge did the heavy lifting, but still it has required many hours of manual editing.

Incidentally, the PSD file is 899 MB, and when I edit it, it consumes 2.6 GB RAM.

Hi 'filingaccount',

Looked at your photo in the ' Panorama' thread of BKK and that took me breath away "WoW' is not the word , this is much better way to express my thinking of your you photo

Thanks. It's nice to see that people enjoy it.