Panorama thread: nr. 48 *large files*

Hello

I'm new to the site and I just noticed this thread.

I'm taking advantage of the invitation to post a couple of panoramas that I took last year.

These were my first attempts at panoramas and arose through necessity when I found myself on holiday confronted with a couple of views that my lens, at it's widest angle, wasn't going to capture what I wanted it to.

I didn't have the foggiest idea what I was doing but just took lots and lots of overlapping pictures with the vague notion that I would sort it all out when I got home.

I then struggled to find a software package that would tie up the pictures with the minimum of errors but finally settled on Microsoft ICE after several abortive attempts with other products.

There are still a few slight mismatches in these two pictures particularly the interior shot - but perhaps lots and lots of straight lines or moving parts in the scenes is not what I should have started with!

Anyway, it was fun doing these and I got a nice buzz out of seeing the final images come together - I hope you enjoy them although I don't think they're up to the exceptional standards of some of the preceding shots in this thread.

Regards

Cluke

This is the Ponte Rialto in Venice and was shot with a Panasonic GH2 using a 14-140 zoom lens

This is a vertorama and consisted of 4 or 5 landscape format images one above the other.

As you can see I had a great vantage point and my camera could just about get the width but I was missing out on a great foreground to lead the eye in and it was this that kicked off my attempts at panoramas

This is shot inside the cable car station on the top of Monte Baldo above Lake Garda using the same camera and lens

For this panorama I stitched together about 9 frames that were shot in portrait format.

This was an horrendous one to stitch and the one tested the capabilities of several software packages