Panoramas on the rebel?

[Ogrt48]

How do you take panoramas on the rebel? I don't see it in the manual. I'm used to my A70 panorama mode. :\

[cmM]

Well...
you either crop, or stitch.

Your rebel came with PhotoStitch. Take 2 or more picture and stitch them together to get a panorama.

Hope it helps.

[Danny Boy]

I stitched multiple shots together for the first time recently. In PhotoShop Elements you can stitch together a panorama. It turned out pretty well for me, especially for a first try. Click on help in PhotoShop Elements and do a search on 'stitch'. There will be instructions.

Dan

[gsmx2]

One word of advice for making panoramas. Use MANUAL exposure. Figure out the exposure you want to take for the entire scene, when set the exposure to that setting in manual.

If you don't do that, the exposure will likely change through the shots and the seams can be obvious..especially in the sky and clouds.

If you have graduated from a Canon Powershot that had a panorama setting, that setting kept the same exposure automatically.

[12345Michael54321]

I would mention, if only in passing, that although many digital cameras marketed at casual photographers have on-camera settings for various "special effects" (a panorama mode, a black & white mode, etc.), more sophisticated cameras often lack such settings.

The rationale being, the casual snapshooter is unlikely to engage in much, if any, post processing of the image. Therefore, all the work necessary to the special effect should be done by the camera. But the owner of the "higher end" camera is presumably a more serious photographer, who will be comfortable engaging in significant post processing of the image.

Having all the work done in the camera is easier. Doing the work in post processing, on a computer, with powerful and flexible software, can often produce superior results.

[chris maddock]

One word of advice for making panoramas. Use MANUAL exposure. Figure out the exposure you want to take for the entire scene, when set the exposure to that setting in manual.


Good advice - to which I would add using a fixed white-balance, i.e. anything but automatic.

KRs
Chris

[Ogrt48]

Alright thanks everyone. I'll try it out. I only used the poweshot for less then 2 months. It limits what you can do by a lot, even in its manual mode.

[Ogrt48]

Well I did it. Here is my first one. The colors are off since I was just testing it and didn't wanna mess with while the WB. Thank you all.
http://matt.teptrix.com/images/CanonRebel/heh.jpg

[robertwgross]

How do you take panoramas on the rebel? I don't see it in the manual. I'm used to my A70 panorama mode. :\

Is this the Canon Rebel, which is a film camera, or is it the Canon Digital Rebel?

---Bob Gross---

[gsmx2]

Well I did it. Here is my first one. The colors are off since I was just testing it and didn't wanna mess with while the WB. Thank you all.
http://matt.teptrix.com/images/CanonRebel/heh.jpg

Good job pushing yourself to expand your knowledge.

But, man that is one bad photo. :) Can't wait to see your next effort.

Scott

[DocFrankenstein]

LOL I didn't expect the AWB to affect the results that much

[mjordan]

I like Panorama Factory better than Photo Stitch. It does a better job putting the seams together.

Here is a 13 image one I did the other day with my 10D and 70-200 2.8L IS lens:

http://www.sitnprettyphoto.com/display/bonniville1.jpg

The suggestion to put it in manual exposure is right on. I leave it in auto focus but have the exposure set for manual. I have also done most of my handheld as well.

They are a lot of fun to do. I've done a number of these along the Columbia River Gorge in the last couple of weeks.

Mike

[Axier]

I have one 300D and take my pano-photos in Manual mode. The WB settings are indifferent for me (in any way, I prefer automatic mode), because I take in RAW format and I apply the best WB parameters in C1 (or Canon software), after that, I use the same WB settings for all the photos to be stitched.