RX100 Evening Cincinnati Panorama

[paradoxical3]

Disclaimer - I am not a professional photographer, or even an advanced amateur. I bought a SLR primarily for business purposes (T2i, 24-70L F 2.8) and grew to enjoy photography. I now have a RX100 and frankly I am selling the T2i. Low light performance is better on the RX100, and the detail is honestly just as good or better.

Last night I shot this panorama. Sure, it's not technically brilliant from a photographic standpoint, but how about that detail from a camera the size of a deck of cards!!!! I think I might actually get this printed...any tips on how to edit in preparation for print? What size do you think I can get away with?

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I have to say, I really am enjoying using this camera. I can just keep it in my car or in a pocket and it's always ready to capture something like this - I'm totally sold.

 

[hpd334]

I'm not real familiar with downtown but it looks like you're close to the Celestial. Nice shot.

 

[paradoxical3]

I took it from the overlook at Immaculata Church in Mt. Adams. Tonight I might check out Devou Park in Covington - supposed to be a more impressive shot since you're facing the city head on instead of kind of behind it at an angle. But going to do some more reading about proper technique for this kind of shooting first...this time I will use a shutter delay to minimize shake from pressing the button. A couple of the stitched images were blurry because of that.

 

[keirono]

That's fantastic! Can you tell me how you shot it? Did you have it on a tripod?

I've struggled with panoramas - I keep getting error messages. I think I don't get the speed of the sweep right.

 

[Karl Scharf]

Very nice panorama. You should be able to get a print large enough to span an average size wall, since you have a rather large image file.

Just got my RX100, have not tried the panorama mode yet.

 

[paradoxical3]

keirono wrote:

That's fantastic! Can you tell me how you shot it? Did you have it on a tripod?

I've struggled with panoramas - I keep getting error messages. I think I don't get the speed of the sweep right.

This particular shot is a manual panorama, so I just took a few shots slightly overlapping and joined them in Photoshop. I have used the on-camera mode and it is QUITE good, but I wanted more editing control than the jpg that it spits out.

For this one, I did have it on a tripod because I used lower shutter speed since I wanted low iso. But you don't need a tripod if you're willing to crank the iso!