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habakuk
26th of August 2005 (Fri), 01:38
Good day.
I have posted a small selection of panorama pictures to my experimental website. Feel free to drop in and have a look.

http://www.driftingaway.org

Basically, it is a personal project where photography is not the main focus, but you might like the pictures anyway.

Looking forward to constructive criticism.

Enjoy
Habakuk
sparker1
26th of August 2005 (Fri), 06:17
You have some lovely images. The two snow scenes have some unfortunate sun flare, but such wide panoramas are always at risk for lighting problems. I really like the one where the grass stalks converge. Please tell about your technique. Did you use a panoramic camera? If it's a stitch job, it's very good. Also, where are these shots?
habakuk
28th of August 2005 (Sun), 16:09
You have some lovely images. The two snow scenes have some unfortunate sun flare, but such wide panoramas are always at risk for lighting problems. I really like the one where the grass stalks converge. Please tell about your technique. Did you use a panoramic camera? If it's a stitch job, it's very good. Also, where are these shots?

Yes. Imagine, I never thought about taking panorama pictures. They just started to happen. It's like what you do when you look around at a special place. So, I just did what I always did. Only, I held a old clumsy Nikon Coolpix 990 in front of my nose... that basically covers my "technique". :-)

I very often come to a place, and start looking around. Sometimes I kneel or lay down to see the world from different perspectives, and that's how the shot with the grass stalks came up: Kneeling on the ground, taking around 12 shots in wide angle.

I did the stitching manually, and as if this isn't hard enough, I did all these shots without a tripod. I have no idea about the technical details of the coolpix or the shots, since they were all done before I got my new digital SLR. Now I slowly recover from the point-and-shoot disease. ;-)

I don't really have thougt seriously about panoramas. So I did many things wrong - yet the pics looked good enough to be shared with others, no?

The landscape panoramas were taken in the region of Schwarzenburg in Switzerland.

cheers