How to take vertical panaromic pictures using FP4900?

Hi all digital photographers,

I would like to know how to take a vertical panaromic photo using my trusty Fuji FinePix 4900Zoom?

I have tried the horizontal panaromic photos using my digicam by take a few continous shots of approx. 50% overlapping and then using a panaromic stitching software to do the job.

But would really like to see how to do vertical panaromic. If there is a tutorial website for this, I would really like to see.

Hope someone can help.
Cheers.

From,

Michael

Hi Michael....

I am not sure about specific tutorials on vertical panos. I am sure they exist its just that I don't know any to point you to.

I have shot a few vertical panos. THe one you see below was done with the fuji WL-fxp wide angle adapter on. I find with the vertical panos the extra width of the wide angle adapter is very useful. If you don't have the wide angle adapter then I recommend taking two shots side by side before you start working your way up unless you pano is of a very tall and very thin subject.

You will need a tripod of course and you will shoot very much the same way that you did for the horizontal pano... at regular intervals just move the camera up and shoot again. instead of shooting left to right you will be shooting bottom to top. Exposure might be a little trickier depending on what you are shooting and how far into the sky it stretches.

The shot below was stitched from 5 or 6 photos, I don't remember for sure. It was relatively easy to do but as I said, the wide angle adapter helped. IF you have to shoot two shots side by side, I would stitch all your side to side shots to each other first before stitching upwards. By the way, I used pano factory to make this pano.

I hope this helps, but I have a feeling I am not being terribly clear.

good luck...
liza



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liza wallis said:

Hi Michael....

I am not sure about specific tutorials on vertical panos. I am
sure they exist its just that I don't know any to point you to.

I have shot a few vertical panos. THe one you see below was done
with the fuji WL-fxp wide angle adapter on. I find with the
vertical panos the extra width of the wide angle adapter is very
useful. If you don't have the wide angle adapter then I recommend
taking two shots side by side before you start working your way up
unless you pano is of a very tall and very thin subject.

You will need a tripod of course and you will shoot very much the
same way that you did for the horizontal pano... at regular
intervals just move the camera up and shoot again. instead of
shooting left to right you will be shooting bottom to top.
Exposure might be a little trickier depending on what you are
shooting and how far into the sky it stretches.

The shot below was stitched from 5 or 6 photos, I don't remember
for sure. It was relatively easy to do but as I said, the wide
angle adapter helped. IF you have to shoot two shots side by side,
I would stitch all your side to side shots to each other first
before stitching upwards. By the way, I used pano factory to make
this pano.

I hope this helps, but I have a feeling I am not being terribly clear.

good luck...
liza



--
http://www.lizawallis.com

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Thanks for the great info. Yes, I have the WL for my digicam and I am too using pano. factory to do the stictching.

I will give it a try one of these days and hope it works.
BTW, nice shot.

Cheers.

From,

Michael

What an awesome pic. I love it.
tfs silver

liza wallis said:

Hi Michael....

I am not sure about specific tutorials on vertical panos. I am
sure they exist its just that I don't know any to point you to.

I have shot a few vertical panos. THe one you see below was done
with the fuji WL-fxp wide angle adapter on. I find with the
vertical panos the extra width of the wide angle adapter is very
useful. If you don't have the wide angle adapter then I recommend
taking two shots side by side before you start working your way up
unless you pano is of a very tall and very thin subject.

You will need a tripod of course and you will shoot very much the
same way that you did for the horizontal pano... at regular
intervals just move the camera up and shoot again. instead of
shooting left to right you will be shooting bottom to top.
Exposure might be a little trickier depending on what you are
shooting and how far into the sky it stretches.

The shot below was stitched from 5 or 6 photos, I don't remember
for sure. It was relatively easy to do but as I said, the wide
angle adapter helped. IF you have to shoot two shots side by side,
I would stitch all your side to side shots to each other first
before stitching upwards. By the way, I used pano factory to make
this pano.

I hope this helps, but I have a feeling I am not being terribly clear.

good luck...
liza



--
http://www.lizawallis.com

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Nice pic, I have done a couple vertical panos in panorama factory. Just load the pics in and do it just like a horizontal one, then rotate when done. Problem is in the distortion of vertical lines like in buildings and such. I did one of a tall building and when it was done it looked bent due to the angle (like a paralex I guess) Same way this building looks curved when in reality it was not:



There is a website that a guy has that discusses using pano tools to put together huge images from a series of shots, so he may build a 8 image pano from 2 rows of 4 images. They are awesome, here is a link:
http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr_tutorial.htm
http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr_tutorial.htm#conclusion

His whole site is a volume of information, however the programs he uses and has developed are a tad complex, especially compared to panorama factory.
HTH, Ted

cybernerdsx2 said:

liza wallis said:

Hi Michael....

I am not sure about specific tutorials on vertical panos. I am
sure they exist its just that I don't know any to point you to.

I have shot a few vertical panos. THe one you see below was done
with the fuji WL-fxp wide angle adapter on. I find with the
vertical panos the extra width of the wide angle adapter is very
useful. If you don't have the wide angle adapter then I recommend
taking two shots side by side before you start working your way up
unless you pano is of a very tall and very thin subject.

You will need a tripod of course and you will shoot very much the
same way that you did for the horizontal pano... at regular
intervals just move the camera up and shoot again. instead of
shooting left to right you will be shooting bottom to top.
Exposure might be a little trickier depending on what you are
shooting and how far into the sky it stretches.

The shot below was stitched from 5 or 6 photos, I don't remember
for sure. It was relatively easy to do but as I said, the wide
angle adapter helped. IF you have to shoot two shots side by side,
I would stitch all your side to side shots to each other first
before stitching upwards. By the way, I used pano factory to make
this pano.

I hope this helps, but I have a feeling I am not being terribly clear.

good luck...
liza



--
http://www.lizawallis.com

Click to expand...

Thanks for the great info. Yes, I have the WL for my digicam and I
am too using pano. factory to do the stictching.

I will give it a try one of these days and hope it works.
BTW, nice shot.

Cheers.

From,

Michael

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liza wallis said:

I have shot a few vertical panos. THe one you see below was done
with the fuji WL-fxp wide angle adapter on. I find with the
vertical panos the extra width of the wide angle adapter is very
useful. If you don't have the wide angle adapter then I recommend
taking two shots side by side before you start working your way up
unless you pano is of a very tall and very thin subject.

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That's a really impressive photo Liza, I love night shots of cities anyway and that was well especially done. I'd be prepared to bet that most non-photographers looking at that wouldn't appreciate the skill in capturing then creating that image - we tend to take for granted what we can achieve with our own eyes and a little head movement.

I've not yet tried any panoramas, so went to look at the Panorama Factory web site to see what it's likely to cost and there are some really impressive users' photos on there - including a fabulous vertigo-inducing vertical pano from inside the Eiffel tower.

I really think I'm going to have to give this a try - like I don't already have a head full of undeveloped ideas and not enough time already! Thanks for the inspiration - and Ted too.

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http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography tutorial

Boo said:

I really think I'm going to have to give this a try - like I don't
already have a head full of undeveloped ideas and not enough time
already! Thanks for the inspiration - and Ted too.

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I decided to have a play while I ate my lunch, so as I'm stuck at home today (I work from home) I set up the camera and did several views of the garden through 360 degrees and even though I only downloaded the free basic version of Panorama Factory I was pretty impressed with the way it worked - I'm sure with fine tuning and more care, the results would be considerably improved, but this was done pretty much automatically without much thought or planning and combined with the free Java Applet, PT Viewer, you are invited to visit my modest little courtyard garden if you like:

http://www.zenadsl5251.zen.co.uk/photos/garden.html

I used 13 images and overlapped them much more than I probably needed to, it was purely a rough experiment - I now need a trip somewhere with nice views!

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Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography tutorial

Boo said:

http://www.zenadsl5251.zen.co.uk/photos/garden.html

I used 13 images and overlapped them much more than I probably
needed to, it was purely a rough experiment - I now need a trip
somewhere with nice views!

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Oh I see you decided to go for the big guns straight away! I think this came out great and your garden looks terrific. I like how you incorporated the scroll into that web page. I didn't detect any obvious seams to I would say you are well on your way to getting the whole pano bug. They are boatloads of fun, aren't they?

liza
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liza wallis said:

Oh I see you decided to go for the big guns straight away!

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Not realy, I was just working with what I had available today - I simply set up the tripod and whizzed round in a circle, taking shots with the left of one overlapping the right of the previous one (camera as wide angle as I could manage without a lens and tipped through 90 degrees (I rotated the images before doing the pano) - some of the joins are fairly obvious where there was too much overlap, but if I were doing it properly, I'd take more care of preparing the images beforehand, I just threw this together to see if the technique had any interest for me before investing in better software.

liza wallis said:

this came out great and your garden looks terrific.

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It will in a month when things have grown a bit more, some corners are a bit bare yet. The area outside of the trellis divider is where I keep all the flowering annuals, I have a display of about 30 pots that will be a riot of colour in a few weeks. We do love this garden and have eaten out there several times in the last few days - I work out there before the sun hits as often as I can as well.

liza wallis said:

incorporated the scroll into that web page.

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That was a free downloadable Java applet called PTViewer from http://www.path.unimelb.edu.au/~dersch/

liza wallis said:

I would say you are well on your way to getting
the whole pano bug. They are boatloads of fun, aren't they?

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I could easliy get hooked - I'm looking forward to a chance to try some proper ones - some of the examples on the Panorama Factory web site are very inspiring - some of our favourite places in the Lake District would be ideal for the treatment. I'm doing a photo shoot away, on the coast, in a couple of weeks in a very pretty area, so I hope we get some nice weather to try some.

Thanks for the inspiration today - I enjoyed doing that - although I really should have put more effort into accounts and paperwork instead - I'm way too easily distracted!!

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Fuji S602Z and 2800Z
http://www.peekaboo.me.uk - general portfolio
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk - live music photos
http://www.boo-photos.co.uk/lowlight.html - live music photography tutorial