Harbour & Castle panorama

[Red Rose Exile]

Di, I use Panorama Perfect lite to create this one. I need to do a wee bit of tweaking to hide the joins

Liz you are more than welcome to use this as a banner

Dave, I walked towards Kania, and then climbed from the generator to the hill behind Imborio, going through an interesting pallet gate,
I do have another image that I am still trying to tack on the end which includes Chorio castle

Daisy I wish I were a professional!

[daveandgill]

Oops
I think that there is a little confusion about these images. There are images from two people in this thread.....although they are all in a panorama format.

Dave

[Di]

Hey, I'll take hints on free software from anyone Both photo's are excellent. Which one did you use daveandgill?

[daveandgill]

I've been using a free (free is desirable) photo browser that just happens to have a stitching function. It's "imagic 4" and is free on the web. I believe that Imagic 5 has now replaced the version 4. This has a trial period for the use of the stitcher, after which you may need to pay to continue using it. (If you can't find version 4, pm me). Anyway, 5 is worth a try until it times out.

Using it is ridiculously easy. Select the series of photos to join and press "panorama" and off you go...
Like all similar products, it helps to have good images to start with, you can't make a convincing pano with poorly matched images.

Apologies if you know all this........
A simple compact camera can be used to make some very good images if a few "rules" are employed.

1. Hold the camera steady and take photos as you pan around from one side to the other. Aim to give around 25% overlap between images.

2. Get the same exposure on each image. For a simple compact the easy way to do this is to aim and give the shutter button the partial press (so that it is ready to take a picture) whilst pointing at the same part of the scene, then move to the section that you want and complete the button press. Probably best to use the brightest part of the pano scene for this.

3. Turn the camera as if it's on a tripod or mono-pod rather than swinging it round your body. This will help to reduce parallax effects in your pano image. Better yet, buy a small tripod or monopod and use it.

4. Take more than one set of pano images each time, make one a "wider" shot than you really wanted. (Or turn the camera on its side for the series, the stitcher is happy to join any).

5. Have fun.......

Dave

[Liz]

We now have a shiney new banner courtesy of Red Rose Exile ..thankyou

[johnr]

This is a photo of a photo - but it is the best use I know for an extended desktop display and it gets me in the mood for my holiday when I get to work in the morning!

[jamesthebutler]

Nice one(s) John ! I've got the Austrian village skiing version on my work computer as a holiday prompt simply because we've been going to the same place for 25 years . Don't forget to tidy up your desk before you go will you !

Have a great time.

[johnr]

That is tidy!

[jamesthebutler]