My First panorama

[funaki]

Have a look at the Panorama that i took by the beach. This is my first try.

Small Version :

Big Version (2mb) : Pic

Comments, criticism all welcome.

Thanks

[lawtai]

not bad, though the horizon isn't flat.

[Soldiers33]

nice but I dont rly like dark pictures. Wud be better if you done it during daylight

[Silver_Guy]

thats really nice! if you straighten it slightly it would be perfect! what did you use to stitch the photo's together?

[RoomKid]

I agree, it needs to be straighten :) It looks good :)

[funaki]

not bad, though the horizon isn't flat.

Thanks, i know about the Horizon, The software didnt stitch it properly.

nice but I dont rly like dark pictures. Wud be better if you done it during daylight

Thanks, i am planning to take the same picture in the morning.

[funaki]

thats really nice! if you straighten it slightly it would be perfect! what did you use to stitch the photo's together?

I have to find a better way to stitch the images. Maybe someone on here can help with that. Btw i used Microsoft ICE to stich it together.

I agree, it needs to be straighten :) It looks good :)

Thank you.

[Bubbabyte]

Have a look at the Panorama that i took by the beach. This is my first try.

Small Version :

Big Version (2mb) : Pic

Comments, criticism all welcome.

Thanks

It's nice but IMO would have been nicer with just the right 1/3 of the pic cropped, as the other 2/3 really have nothing to offer. The middle part is almost complete black so it makes the pic look off. It's stitched properly but imo not a very good composition for a panorama.

[Draconian Guppy]

Have a look at the Panorama that i took by the beach. This is my first try.

Small Version : <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4280629335_dc581d6c25_b.jpg" border="0" alt="" class="linked-image" />

Big Version (2mb) : <a href="http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/28/1stpan2.jpg" target="_blank">Pic</a>

Comments, criticism all welcome.

Thanks

Ok, I agree on composition with the others, But since your first try, we'll let it pass :p Like bubba says, the middle looks very un-interesting to say the least. Here's a thought, for your next attempt try shooting with the cityscape in the middle. oh, you might want to shoot lower ISO and/or apply some noise reduction.

Also, the people on the left are completely out of place.

[Andre]

Just like any photo, you need to have something for the viewer to focus on or just explore. For example if there were different buildings throughout the whole width of the pano, then it wouldn't have mattered if it was very very wide or just plain pano wide, as there would have been enough stuff to explore and look through. What you did is you just took as many photos as possible and stitched them together into a very boring strip of blackness with a bit of something on the right.

You could have just zoomed in on the horizon to get more detail, taken some photos and used those for the pano instead.

[Sir Topham Hatt]

It's nice but IMO would have been nicer with just the right 1/3 of the pic cropped, as the other 2/3 really have nothing to offer. The middle part is almost complete black so it makes the pic look off. It's stitched properly but imo not a very good composition for a panorama.

Exactly what I would have done.

I find this with some of mine. I get excited and take a huge Panoramic shot, then realise after that it simply doesn't look that great as it's just too large. Here's some ideas:

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Although, sometimes full panorama's work:

Sometimes, they don't quite:

It's all about experimentation. If you want to check out some more, I went through a phase of doing them: Playing in the Yard | Round the Bend | Alton Towers Resort - Rita Queen of Speed | Heavenly Baby Blue | Built to Stand Forever

You shoud check out the ones above, not to plug my own work, but panoramic doesn't always mean landscape, sometimes vertical ones can look good (Heavenly Baby Blue / Build to Stand Forever). I know the shots aren't great but they are more good than not.

Here's another idea to perhas think about:

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Still a great photo though with loads of potential tweaking. No need to throw it out, just take another one in the day too!

Also something to try would be taking one at night, then take one in the day with the camera in exactly the same place - although that means camping out all night :p

Edited January 24, 2010 by Mr Spoon

[Osiris]

For what its worth I liked the pic, and im curious as to what city it is?

[funaki]

Thank you Mr Spoon, Andre, Draconian Guppy, Bubbabyte. It was the first time i really tried to take a picture like this. I had an understanding that panorama is a really huge picture no matter if it gets dull in between or not. Will play around more with the picture and composition. I lack in composition department.

Mr Spoon, thank you for the amazing crop jobs that you posted, will learn a lot from all of this.

Osiris Thank you for your comments. The Country is Bahrain. Google Maps link of the area.

Thanks again guys, will be uploading some pictures from a recent Airshow event, more pictures of kids then of the Planes. Will love to have your comments on those.

Cheers

[Argote]

WOW, those are some nice Edits Mr Spoon, good job. You can also try doing some photosynths, those turn out cool.