360 Degree Auckland Panorama from One Tree Hill - (large image)

[Wazza]

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/akl_pano2.jpg

Not the best image at all. All handheld, and the first time, trying a Pano with shooting vertically, rather than landscape. I had to stitch it two lots, as Canon Stitch kept making the 36 images all messed up.

I also shot this at the bottom of the hill:

http://wazz*****scity.com/20d/round_grass_pano.jpg

Shooting on the city side was a bit difficult, as the sun was directly over city, and the shots didn't come out to clear, so I decided to put the sun behind the monument.

[Meerkat17]

Well done,
Photostitch is not the best of stitching software and you can still see some of the edges which haven't blended so well. Both images are nice - possibly a little work on the shadows?

Regards

[SloNeZ600]

Nice; I have yet to try my hand at this!

[Wazza]

Thanks. They do need some work definately, I didn't change the shadow detailing or anything. I'm not that much of a photoshop pro, but thanks for the PM with the utility. :)

[Rendezvous]

Hey! You liar. That's only 350 degrees!
Nice effort Wazza

[Wazza]

LOL.
You're correct.
There is a shot missing from the obelisk.

It wouldn't stitch together, as I was trying to centre it, but decided to put each corner on the edges of pano. :)

[weemannie]

Nice work Wazza:)

[felix21685]

nice job man..now i need to find a spot thats suitable for this :)

[joeseph]

Nice Pano's Wazza, the colour in the second one leaps out really well.

I need to find a day when I'm not working with that sort of sunshine!
I'm supposed to be going to Hamilton (pretend it's Fiji?) to see the Warriors tomorrow & forcast is not nice...

[GTogs]

Nicely done! I can hardly hold the camera steady enough to take one shot, let alone a pano like this!

[Wazza]

Thanks everyone.

The 2nd one pops at you, as I changed the hue +3, and bumped saturation up a bit. It was actual what it really looked like, very lush vegetation. Pity, I couldn't stand in the dead middle.

[rich_yau]

Any sugestions on good programs for stitcing??

[Becca]

I've used both Canon's Photostitch and a tool that comes with Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0 called Photomerge Panorama. I like the Canon one better, seems to do a better job at matching things up, but both work. Of course, like anything else, its the quality and similarity of light in the pictures that you are merging that makes it all look "real".

Funny story... I did a panorama of a beach scene and didn't realize until I got it all done that there was a jogger on the beach (I was shooting from up on a dune) that showed up in three of the shots. Photoshop time!

[dlove]

Good job on the panos
One program that I've used with good results is Autostitch, at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html
It does a good job of matching and blending images. Some of the down sides to it are it will only save as a read and save JPEGs, and you have to change the settings each time you use it. The up side is it's free. Give it a try
Dana

[Wazza]

I downloaded Auto Stitch before using this one above, and it didn't work for me. The images came out completely distorted. Does it matter whether shots were taken vertically or landscape? These were done vertically, my first time at such.

[Poco]

I downloaded Auto Stitch before using this one above, and it didn't work for me. The images came out completely distorted. Does it matter whether shots were taken vertically or landscape? These were done vertically, my first time at such.

Autostitch is great but I suspect that it got a bit confused because they were sideways. I think it assumes that the photos are oriented correctly so that it can try to make any horizontal lines (like horizons) look, well, horizontal and may have been confused with all the vertical lines. I would rotate the images so they were oriented correctly first.

[Wazza]

Yeah, I was thinking that.

But Canons Stitch program allows for vertical images, but can only do about 25 images at a time, or it does exactly the same errors. Basically gives a blurred look for half the bottom image, and the top is very pixellated.