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Vertical panorama: cathedral in Sligo Town
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I had this shot on display and people admired it, not knowing how this could be shot.
Some asked: ”you must have been lying on the floor to get that”
I asked back: ” oh yes, on the floor that you can see down on the picture?”
If you would like to see more vertical architectural panoramas, go to http://www.mayorama.ie/heritage
In a way its not really important how the shot was created,
if its a stitched pic, then the rotation around the nodal point
will give it the look of a fisheye anyway;
if it was a straightened crop from a fisheye,
I’d expect to see more than the 120 degree (ish) AOV you’ve captured here, and more of the aisles-Very unusual format though,
and it does seem to work,
particularly if you’ve got a specific use for this format-I would be tempted to crop some off top and bottom all the same-
joseph
Welcome to the Forum Tomas.
I like the composition and colours of the photo. I think that the bottom part is a little dark.
Are you Hungarian?Hi All
roberto:
you got it right ,I guess by name. However I cannot deny the hungarian roots of my family I cannot speak hungarian and I do come from the neighbouring country Slovakia.the bottom seems too dark, but on the print (which is already sold) it wasn’t so obvious – maybe beacuse of
good printing skills of the lab where I have my pictures done.jb7:
indeed both methods make similar results. But you do not even need to bother with nodal point of your lens. It is too complicated and the result is similar. Shooting around nodal point might ease up work for automated software, which I stopped using after too disapointing results. Hand work is always better 8)Regarding the format, it is supposed to be 3:1 ratio, which is the standart format for panoramas, and is close 17:6 of big, heavy and expensive panoramic medium format which I cannot afford (to pay and carry around) at the moment. This particular picture I wanted to end at the top with white vault, that is why it is so cut.
happy shooting
I made my own pano head out of a bit of 4×2 aluminium angle-
I think the nodal point is v.important, whatever way you stitch it-
I don’t know what you’re using, cos you stripped the Exif,
but if you’re on a Mac, there’s a very good, simple, intuitive stitcher called DoubleTake-
It handles really large files,
and is really inexpensive-worth a look.
I like 3×1,
in fact any multiplication of squares seem to work well,
but the long vertical format is unusual-There is a very good book,
perhaps someone else knows the name and photographer,
cos it escapes me just now,
shot and published in the vertical 17:6 format,
whose subject matter is NYC,Hope someone knows who it is-
j
the photographer you mean is probably Horst Hamann.
He published a book New York Vertical. It is truly amazing book, one of best I have came across this year. I would like to say that he is my inspiration, but shooting panoramic camera and shoting 4 shots and stitching them together is completely different approach and different seeing of world.
To the nodal point: I used to shoot also some kind of plastic HP shoot-and-point and it gave me better results than my SLR when stitching pictures. Why? I think that it was much easier to intuitively rotate it aroud its nodal point (length of camera – 5 cm) that the set of lens and body 30 cm in total :-)) so maybe there is something about it…
I tried different stitching soft and it never could stitch my architectural shots properly. They usualy handle perspective more or less good, but then fail in the final step – transition areas, where you see not conected lines… so from that point I take my own control and make them alone. The thing is that the pictures are never geometricaly perfect, and some of the non-linear distorsions of image caused by lens are not repairable by any means… not even by panotools nor photoshop
happy shooting
Thanks for the Reference Tomas, what a wonderful resource this site is-
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