:: STF Mini Challenge Number 11 :: - Panoramic Cityscapes

B0nes said:

JamesL said:

Thanks once more to CindyD for hosting such a great challenge. I
have decided that the theme for this challenge will be Panoramic
Cityscapes.

One of my favorite STF Challenges of the past was the Panormaic
Challenge. This challenge forced me to go above and beyond my
existing skills and shoot something I had never done before;
panoramas. So, for this challenge, the goal will be to shoot
panoramic cityscapes. Small ones, big ones, dark ones, bright
ones, blink and you'll miss em ones, 50 miles and still in town
ones, vertical ones, horizontal ones... Well, you get the idea.
Just make sure they are a panorama, and the subject is some sort of
cityscape.

Here's a few hints on shooting good panos:

• Use a Tripod - You can get good results taking handheld shots,

but it's much easier to use a tripod

• Shoot each picture for the scene to have around a 50% overlap

with the previous one

• Determine the proper exposure and focus for the scene, and then

lock the camera into that focus and exposure - you will need to use
the Manual mode on your camera

• Do not use a polarizer - this will give you variable lighting in

your shot

For stitching the shots together, the best program I have found is
Panorama Factory ( http://www.panoramafactory.com ). This is a
very easy to use app, and gives great results. You can also use
PS, PSE, Canon Photostich, MGI Photovista, etc.

If you need any more help or hints, just post here.

I'll borrow from Kopper's posting: This Mini-Challenge will last
one week. STF Mini-Challenge #11 runs from the time of this posting
to Friday, 8 August, at 10PM EST, and is open to all STFers and
photos taken with any Sony camera. Since these images are panos,
they will be larger then the normal 640x480. Please try to submit
nothing over 1000 pixels wide. You could also post a link to the
larger size. Remember, there is no voting, as the host will choose
the winner. The winner shall choose the next topic for
Mini-Challenge #12.

I encourage all participants to get out and create some new panos,
although previously shot scenes are allowed.

Limit 3 photos per person, posted all at once or in three separate
posts.

Here are a couple of examples I would have posted had I been eligible:



http://www3.pbase.com/image/7971185/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/image/4945450/original



http://www.pbase.com/image/18961791/original.jpg

Good Luck!!!!

James

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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JamesL said:

Thanks once more to CindyD for hosting such a great challenge. I
have decided that the theme for this challenge will be Panoramic
Cityscapes.

One of my favorite STF Challenges of the past was the Panormaic
Challenge. This challenge forced me to go above and beyond my
existing skills and shoot something I had never done before;
panoramas. So, for this challenge, the goal will be to shoot
panoramic cityscapes. Small ones, big ones, dark ones, bright
ones, blink and you'll miss em ones, 50 miles and still in town
ones, vertical ones, horizontal ones... Well, you get the idea.
Just make sure they are a panorama, and the subject is some sort of
cityscape.

Here's a few hints on shooting good panos:

• Use a Tripod - You can get good results taking handheld shots,

but it's much easier to use a tripod

• Shoot each picture for the scene to have around a 50% overlap

with the previous one

• Determine the proper exposure and focus for the scene, and then

lock the camera into that focus and exposure - you will need to use
the Manual mode on your camera

• Do not use a polarizer - this will give you variable lighting in

your shot

For stitching the shots together, the best program I have found is
Panorama Factory ( http://www.panoramafactory.com ). This is a
very easy to use app, and gives great results. You can also use
PS, PSE, Canon Photostich, MGI Photovista, etc.

If you need any more help or hints, just post here.

I'll borrow from Kopper's posting: This Mini-Challenge will last
one week. STF Mini-Challenge #11 runs from the time of this posting
to Friday, 8 August, at 10PM EST, and is open to all STFers and
photos taken with any Sony camera. Since these images are panos,
they will be larger then the normal 640x480. Please try to submit
nothing over 1000 pixels wide. You could also post a link to the
larger size. Remember, there is no voting, as the host will choose
the winner. The winner shall choose the next topic for
Mini-Challenge #12.

I encourage all participants to get out and create some new panos,
although previously shot scenes are allowed.

Limit 3 photos per person, posted all at once or in three separate
posts.

Here are a couple of examples I would have posted had I been eligible:



http://www3.pbase.com/image/7971185/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/image/4945450/original



http://www.pbase.com/image/18961791/original.jpg

Good Luck!!!!

James

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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NEWBIE_here said:

what a great shot!

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NEWBIE_here said:

NEWBIE_here said:

http://www.pbase.com/blay1/galleries

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JamesL said:

Thanks once more to CindyD for hosting such a great challenge. I
have decided that the theme for this challenge will be Panoramic
Cityscapes.

One of my favorite STF Challenges of the past was the Panormaic
Challenge. This challenge forced me to go above and beyond my
existing skills and shoot something I had never done before;
panoramas. So, for this challenge, the goal will be to shoot
panoramic cityscapes. Small ones, big ones, dark ones, bright
ones, blink and you'll miss em ones, 50 miles and still in town
ones, vertical ones, horizontal ones... Well, you get the idea.
Just make sure they are a panorama, and the subject is some sort of
cityscape.

Here's a few hints on shooting good panos:

• Use a Tripod - You can get good results taking handheld shots,

but it's much easier to use a tripod

• Shoot each picture for the scene to have around a 50% overlap

with the previous one

• Determine the proper exposure and focus for the scene, and then

lock the camera into that focus and exposure - you will need to use
the Manual mode on your camera

• Do not use a polarizer - this will give you variable lighting in

your shot

For stitching the shots together, the best program I have found is
Panorama Factory ( http://www.panoramafactory.com ). This is a
very easy to use app, and gives great results. You can also use
PS, PSE, Canon Photostich, MGI Photovista, etc.

If you need any more help or hints, just post here.

I'll borrow from Kopper's posting: This Mini-Challenge will last
one week. STF Mini-Challenge #11 runs from the time of this posting
to Friday, 8 August, at 10PM EST, and is open to all STFers and
photos taken with any Sony camera. Since these images are panos,
they will be larger then the normal 640x480. Please try to submit
nothing over 1000 pixels wide. You could also post a link to the
larger size. Remember, there is no voting, as the host will choose
the winner. The winner shall choose the next topic for
Mini-Challenge #12.

I encourage all participants to get out and create some new panos,
although previously shot scenes are allowed.

Limit 3 photos per person, posted all at once or in three separate
posts.

Here are a couple of examples I would have posted had I been eligible:



http://www3.pbase.com/image/7971185/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/image/4945450/original



http://www.pbase.com/image/18961791/original.jpg

Good Luck!!!!

James

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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B0nes said:

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JamesL said:

Thanks once more to CindyD for hosting such a great challenge. I
have decided that the theme for this challenge will be Panoramic
Cityscapes.

One of my favorite STF Challenges of the past was the Panormaic
Challenge. This challenge forced me to go above and beyond my
existing skills and shoot something I had never done before;
panoramas. So, for this challenge, the goal will be to shoot
panoramic cityscapes. Small ones, big ones, dark ones, bright
ones, blink and you'll miss em ones, 50 miles and still in town
ones, vertical ones, horizontal ones... Well, you get the idea.
Just make sure they are a panorama, and the subject is some sort of
cityscape.

Here's a few hints on shooting good panos:

• Use a Tripod - You can get good results taking handheld shots,

but it's much easier to use a tripod

• Shoot each picture for the scene to have around a 50% overlap

with the previous one

• Determine the proper exposure and focus for the scene, and then

lock the camera into that focus and exposure - you will need to use
the Manual mode on your camera

• Do not use a polarizer - this will give you variable lighting in

your shot

For stitching the shots together, the best program I have found is
Panorama Factory ( http://www.panoramafactory.com ). This is a
very easy to use app, and gives great results. You can also use
PS, PSE, Canon Photostich, MGI Photovista, etc.

If you need any more help or hints, just post here.

I'll borrow from Kopper's posting: This Mini-Challenge will last
one week. STF Mini-Challenge #11 runs from the time of this posting
to Friday, 8 August, at 10PM EST, and is open to all STFers and
photos taken with any Sony camera. Since these images are panos,
they will be larger then the normal 640x480. Please try to submit
nothing over 1000 pixels wide. You could also post a link to the
larger size. Remember, there is no voting, as the host will choose
the winner. The winner shall choose the next topic for
Mini-Challenge #12.

I encourage all participants to get out and create some new panos,
although previously shot scenes are allowed.

Limit 3 photos per person, posted all at once or in three separate
posts.

Here are a couple of examples I would have posted had I been eligible:



http://www3.pbase.com/image/7971185/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/image/4945450/original



http://www.pbase.com/image/18961791/original.jpg

Good Luck!!!!

James

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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Ann Chaikin said:

Don't have time right now to take any new ones so here are a couple
from the time of the previous STF pano challenge. I also learned
how to do it for the first time then and loved it. So here are a
couple of the refinery in Anacortes, WA





And an inside shot at a restaurant. It is in the city of Seattle.



Thanks all,
Ann
--
also known as PT Kitty > ^..^
http://www.pbase.com/ptkitty/galleries
http://www.annchaikin.com

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JamesL said:

Thanks once more to CindyD for hosting such a great challenge. I
have decided that the theme for this challenge will be Panoramic
Cityscapes.

One of my favorite STF Challenges of the past was the Panormaic
Challenge. This challenge forced me to go above and beyond my
existing skills and shoot something I had never done before;
panoramas. So, for this challenge, the goal will be to shoot
panoramic cityscapes. Small ones, big ones, dark ones, bright
ones, blink and you'll miss em ones, 50 miles and still in town
ones, vertical ones, horizontal ones... Well, you get the idea.
Just make sure they are a panorama, and the subject is some sort of
cityscape.

Here's a few hints on shooting good panos:

• Use a Tripod - You can get good results taking handheld shots,

but it's much easier to use a tripod

• Shoot each picture for the scene to have around a 50% overlap

with the previous one

• Determine the proper exposure and focus for the scene, and then

lock the camera into that focus and exposure - you will need to use
the Manual mode on your camera

• Do not use a polarizer - this will give you variable lighting in

your shot

For stitching the shots together, the best program I have found is
Panorama Factory ( http://www.panoramafactory.com ). This is a
very easy to use app, and gives great results. You can also use
PS, PSE, Canon Photostich, MGI Photovista, etc.

If you need any more help or hints, just post here.

I'll borrow from Kopper's posting: This Mini-Challenge will last
one week. STF Mini-Challenge #11 runs from the time of this posting
to Friday, 8 August, at 10PM EST, and is open to all STFers and
photos taken with any Sony camera. Since these images are panos,
they will be larger then the normal 640x480. Please try to submit
nothing over 1000 pixels wide. You could also post a link to the
larger size. Remember, there is no voting, as the host will choose
the winner. The winner shall choose the next topic for
Mini-Challenge #12.

I encourage all participants to get out and create some new panos,
although previously shot scenes are allowed.

Limit 3 photos per person, posted all at once or in three separate
posts.

Here are a couple of examples I would have posted had I been eligible:



http://www3.pbase.com/image/7971185/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/image/4945450/original



http://www.pbase.com/image/18961791/original.jpg

Good Luck!!!!

James

--
Check out my photos at:
http://www.pbase.com/jamesl

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Stever said:

Chicago from the lake...

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JamesL said:

Very cool shot. It definately fits the bill. I like how you
kept the focus on the flowers while blurring the background. Works
very well here.

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NewSushi said:

My Kind of Town

-NewSushi

Stever said:

Chicago from the lake...

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Ann Chaikin said:

Don't have time right now to take any new ones so here are a couple
from the time of the previous STF pano challenge. I also learned
how to do it for the first time then and loved it. So here are a
couple of the refinery in Anacortes, WA





And an inside shot at a restaurant. It is in the city of Seattle.



Thanks all,
Ann
--
also known as PT Kitty > ^..^
http://www.pbase.com/ptkitty/galleries
http://www.annchaikin.com

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