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Splitting the Sky
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I don’t do many panoramas, so go easy on this one please :) .
I liked how the sun almost seemed to be bursting through the sky, although ideally I would have held more detail in the bright strip. Your feedback is very welcome…
Thanks,
SteveWell done Steve. Welcome in the panoramaworld. I like the mood of the image! Is that a hand stitch?
Thanks Madeleine! Stitched using PTGUI.
Pete, it is just a 2 image stitch. I was going to claim that that was Rathlin on the right, but Andy would have been onto me in a second! It could have been taken with a wide-angle lens, but by zooming in and stitching, there are a whole lot of benefits… higher resolution, more detail etc.
SteveD wrote:
there are a whole lot of benefits… higher resolution, more detail etc.
That’s an interesting idea – turn your 10 megapixel workhorse into a 40 megapixel supercharged
machine by joining 4 pics together. Or 60MP by joining 6 together etc. etc.There must be a downside somewhere?
PeteTheBloke wrote:
There must be a downside somewhere?
Definitely in the workflow. Stitching 2 images is straightforward, but stitching 4 images into one larger rectangle, for example, would be a nightmare.
For scenes like this one though, the extra resolution is worth the extra work. Had this been a crop of the wide angle version, the file dimensions would have been roughly 3000x1160px (3.5MP). The stitched image is 5005x1936px (9.6MP). Probably not as high as you would have expected, but you lose a lot when the images are stitched, and when you warp the merge and crop it.
There was a good few articles on creating panoramics in the last/current edition of Digital Photo magazine it included a tutorial where they stitched 9 images together. They also covered the basics of how to shoot the images to get the best results, it was an excellent article and I’m looking forward to trying out the techniques described.
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