Photography Passion V.2.1
The Photographic Passion of an Amateur
Christophe Moyon

Update : Wednesday, April 4, 2012

A panoramic photo is an image whose width is greater than twice the minimum height of the snapshot, and must represent a broad view of a subject. This is the classic definition of a photo view.

This definition is for me a bit simplistic. Because I can take a picture and make a frame of 1 by 2 on a person's eyes. Can we still call it a panorama? And do not forget not Panoramic Dental (we all did), yet it is a broad field of our dental minefields.

Personally, I would say no. Panoramic Photo must also represent a landscape and have an angle of view that is at least 90 and have a ratio of three, in height / length. However, I would that the definition of Pan is a judgment of everyone, it must remain personal.

Most scenic you look often have a frame with a relative height / length of 1 to 3. However, there are other scenic than this.

The composition of panoramic pictures from several seems impossible for some people. This is quite the opposite, thanks to image processing programs that currently exist. In most cases, you specify the photos you want to combine and the software does the rest. It will do more than make a frame that matches what you want.

You will still pay attention to some points, position and well chock your camera vertically or horizontally, if you photos of hands. It would suffice you to look a little box for the pan make a short descent on the horizon is not the most beautiful aesthetics.

Please always work in manual mode. You must first check that the camera would automatically. Move to an area that is close to the brightest part of the panorama you want to take, but not too much. put yourself in 75% of the light intensity. Never check information in advance on the most part clear or darker. Look what gives you information like the case. It will be much easier to rework atmosphere clearly means a picture very dark or too light.

Panoramic built with 8 photos taken with a Canon 5D Mk II and a Canon 24-70mm

Once the information is retrieved from the case, you need to use the manual and the automated information has given you. You just have to take your pictures. Every photo that will be taken will be superimposed approximately 25% of the previous picture.

Why use the box in manual and not automatic? I was asked several times, and the reason is simple.

Between the first and the last picture you will see that the shutter speed, aperture and sensitivity will change with each shot. The result will be obtained at the end, when you create the panoramic surprise. Especially at the sky, when you see different bands of blue in the sky, which will be the result of the automatic correction of the case.

This is why I work in manual to avoid this kind of inconvenience. The best example is the panoramic image above by clicking it you will find the large format and you will see a few bands that represent areas divisions of the initial photos.

Once your pan has been created, you will be able to rework quietly on the entire image, so do not rework a photo to be used to pan, you may distort the image relative to the other images.

You are in charge of your photos, you can do what you want. It is your perception of the world around you, it's your imagination that will be represented.

Do not make panoramic whose height would be 1 for a length ratio of 20 or more. The photo below is an example that shows the edge of a panoramic elongated. If I wanted to do more large, it would also be necessary that I add the image height (down and up).

Panoramic built with 14 photos taken with an Olympus E-3 and an Olympus 14-54mm

Software

Before using Panorama creation software, you can use it free for a period of time (generally 30 days), and then with reduced capacity. Such use, lets you test software with their special features own, to see which one suits you best.

Make sure the features, some software will allow you to do 360 ° and the other spherical, but not all. You also have the amount of photos in which the program can work on some 2000 pictures, d Other than thirty.

Personally, I use 'Panorama Maker' for two years. Panorama For the little I do and the price was what I needed. It is easy to use and artificial intelligence is correct.

Otherwise, I used Autopano Giga 'with a friend, and I was surprised. Whether panoramic horizontal, vertical or mosaic, the software transcribes the perfect image. I even tested with photos taken automatically and the software has corrected the level differences between each photo. You can see the tests in Section panoramic photos (last five). All photos were were taken into automatic test program . You can see that they are properly made. Except for the one with the blue sky (photo # 20), where the program has made the sky too blue and too bleached the mountain to the bottom and center.

fun to mix photos that have nothing in common. You see the type of panoramic image software that you will create, it is surprising.

Tips

When you make panoramic photo, always turn your camera 90 ° to the plane of your view.

Put yourself in portrait mode when you want to make a pan, and put you in landscape mode when you want to pan vertically. When you take a photo, there is always a strain on the edges of the photo . Doing this way, you will reduce the correction work due to deformation when creating and editing views.

The utlisation a tripod is recommended, but you can easily go without, if well den photographic center of gravity. Both panoramic present on this page, as well as the technical page targets have been hand raised taking care to identify my plant rotation. done in the use of the foot is highly recommended when you have an obstacle close to your goal.

Taking pictures for pan must always and it is imperative to do manually, all automatic systems must be disabled. Whenever you take a picture, you will a lot of issues that could affect the system automatic, sun, the distance of an object, ... All these changes prevent you create a panoramic picture correct.

Be very quick in taking your photos, because you might have a little strange sky with clouds in two different places or cloud halved. However, also pay attention to what is happening around you, it would be a shame to have the foot of a person without the rest of the person.

In the case of panoramic page technical goals, I had to wait two minutes between shots, because people had appeared on my images during shooting. In this case, I have had no problem since no subject was moving now, no clouds, among others.

Always use a standard lens with focal length between 30 and 50.

These focal avoid having large deformations on the edges of images, which will become more pronounced with a focal length less.

You can use focal length higher, but I advise you to use in case you want to make a panoramic mosaic. Focal This will allow you to also be able to create a panoramic impressive with strong details . During this selection, you will work a lot of post-production (see Giga-Panoramic, below).

Paris (26 Gigapixels)
Budapest (70 GigaPixels)
Londres (320 GigaPixels)
Site de GigaPan

Panoramic pictures combined with 8 built before cleaning and sunlight glare

The same image after cleaning Pan

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