Panoramic Shots

[dhackney]

This is from 2004 in Japan. Handheld, Canon 1D MkII.

Hachiko Square, in Tokyo, Japan. Reputed to be the busiest “simultaneous pedestrian crosswalk” in the world, seeing approximately one million people each day, with as many as 10,000 people crossing during a single cycle of the light.

This shot is a good demonstration of the limitations of stitching together a scene such as this one with objects in motion.

Stitching tools back then had no idea what "ghosting" was, much less how to eliminate it.

I was fortunate in that the camera was capable of a very fast inter-frame cycle and most of the people were moving away from my position, thus limiting cross-frame motion and resulting ghost artifacts.

 

[dhackney]

This 2008 pan is from Machu Picchu, Peru.

15 shots, vertical, stitched with Photoshop.

Shot handheld with a Canon 1D MkIII, 16-35mm zoom @22mm

 

[dhackney]

These three are also from 2008 and were shot in northern Chile in the Atacama desert region.

The first is from the Chuquicamata copper mine, the largest open-pit copper mine in the world. I really wanted this pan to work and spent a lot of time on it back then. I spent a little more time on it today. It still sucks, or, I guess I should say, is far short of my hopes and aspirations at the time I was there shooting it. The pan doesn't come close to communicating the scale and scope of the mine.

Handheld, Canon 1D MkIII, 28-300mm @28mm




The second is sunset at our camp site overlooking the Cordillera de la Sal (Salt Mountains). It still falls a bit short of encapsulating the vastness of this landscape, but is a big jump up the success scale from the mine pan.

Handheld, Canon 1D MkIII, 16-35mm @16mm




The third is from the abandoned steam engine roundhouse at Baquedano, Chile. This is an interesting pan in that it takes a circular turntable and roundhouse and flattens the perspective.

This was shot handheld with a Canon SD870. I rebuilt the pan for this post using MSFT IDE for the stitch, Photoshop 12 for the intelligent fill and Lightroom 4 for some level adjustments, crop, and rendering. I'm not much of a Photoshop jockey, so that work is pretty crude. Don't judge that tool by what is demonstrated here.

 

[dhackney]

This pan is the Wachirathan Waterfall Thailand. 18°32'30" N 98°35'57" E It was shot in November 2012.

The pan consists of 12 verticals stitched in Photoshop, shot with a Canon 1D MkIII, 16-35mm @16mm




The value of this pan is to illustrate how much resolution and detail is included in the full rez pan. The following is a portion of the lower right corner.

 

[dhackney]

This pan is also from last month in Thailand and is the wild sunflower field here: 18°53'38" N 98°5'24" E

It is 13 shots stitched in Photoshop, taken with a Canon 1D MkIII 16-35mm @26mm.

This is one of several pans I shot that day, none of which came close to capturing and communicating this unique setting in full bloom. I tried climbing up on observation decks and crawling through the underbrush but no vantage point really delivered.

The point is that even when you put a lot of time and effort into trying to capture a pan, it often fails to deliver on what you perceived while you were there.

 

[Clark White]

Ray Pit of the Clifton-Morenci mine, Central AZ


Copper Basin, AZ


Clark

 

[Witchdoctor Oz]

Track to Lake Wabby Fraser Island Australia

Cheers
David

 

[Witchdoctor Oz]

2012/13 Christmas trip Fraser Island

Cheers
David

 

[iMTB]

 

[iMTB]

 

[markrez]

Needs no introduction:

Yellowstone:

 

[Sebas]

From Chile:

Lanalhue Lake.

 

[markrez]

Here's one I took a few days ago

Four Jeeps and an Xterra.

 

[Hopeless Diamond]

East side of Chinook Pass


Chinook Pass Pano by JR Bad Habit, on Flickr

 

[JKMikey]

I'll add some of mine.





[EDIT] Not sure how to make them bigger from Flickr

Mike