stiched Yosemite shot

[John C]

Here is a shot of Yosemite National Park that I took a few years ago.
I set up the tripod and leveled it out on an X axis. Then took a series of shots panning half to two/thirds a frame with each consecutive shot.
When I got home, I used the Canon software and "stiched" the pictures together to make this one large shot.
The actual shot size in photoshop is 14" x 49"

enjoy

 

[bones59]

Nice! Thanks for sharing. It makes me feel like I'm there.

 

[NorthALABeeKeep]

Very well done Sir. I'll have to look into this process myself.

 

[Mike in Cincy]

Did you use a nodal rail for the panning?

btw, great shot!!!

 

[Bertilak]

Nice! Brings back memories.

 

[John C]

Did you use a nodal rail for the panning?

btw, great shot!!!

nope, I just used the bullseye bubble on the tripod and checked through the viewfinder to make sure that I got everything that I was wanting in the shot!
I love to shoot landscapes, but my wideangles tend to distort a bit too much for me. So I shoot around 20mm to 30mm (even up to 70mm) and just take as many shots as I need to get what I want.
If you've got the software to do the stiching it makes large shots easy with very little gear and little to no distortion. I know canon software comes bundled with this, and I would be surprised if Nikon didn't as well. Then there are always the aftermarket software to boot.

 

[DSB]

Very nice shots.

 

[mbrooks]

This is pretty much awesome. Most of my dabblings in photography have been with landscapes, having gone to school in the mountains, so I have a particular appreciation for panoramas. This is far better than any I've made, and not just because it's of Yosemite. Very well done!

 

[jazzman]

Lovely photo. What camera and lens did you use?

 

[John C]

If I remember correctly this was taken with a Canon 20D and the lense is a Sigma 18-125.
I won't be able to get to my files at the studio till tomorrow(eeerg...later today but I'll look on the file attachment and check for sure.

However, I will say that I've used this technique with both my SLRs and my point and shoots. In some ways using the point and shoot is easier in that I wasn't always having to look through the view finder. I could use the screen on the back of the camera and not have to do as much moving in and out over the tripod. Lazy, I'm sure but it works.

 

[Tom C]

Wonderful photo, but do you have one that isn't so tiny? I think B&B automatically resizes images when posted as an attachment.

 

[richmondesi]

That's really great. It's one of the few pics that I've seen that really captures what it is like to actually be there. Great shot, and thanks for sharing!

 

[texbilly]

Fantastic shot and work! So far, the most beautiful place I've been.

 

[murchmb]

Very nice. I'll have to show it to my wife. She lived there for three years working in the park.

 

[ozzy_scl]

WOW! really nice, I last week I was in Cornwall (U.K.) and did some panoramas, I'm still learning, but the results are quite nice.

Did you use a polarizing filter?? I like the deep blue sky contrast the white clouds.

 

[John C]

WOW! really nice, I last week I was in Cornwall (U.K.) and did some panoramas, I'm still learning, but the results are quite nice.

Did you use a polarizing filter?? I like the deep blue sky contrast the white clouds.

no, just a basic haze filter. I put a haze filter on ALL of my lens's as cheap insurance. This point was brought home when I got my foot tangled in my sync cord during a shoot, and the client got to watch my 40D take a 4 foot drop on it's nose.
I picked it up, checked the action out on the lense, unscrewed the *severly* dinted and cracked filter, cleaned the lense and finished the shoot.
That client went out and bought haze filters for all his lens right after that.
I now have a remote trigger in my hotshoe.

 

[r0ckrat]

My Olympus point & shoot came with software to this as well, as long as you use the Olympus xD cards...

Here's one of Broken Top and the Sisters in Oregon:

 

[John C]

cool shot Rockrat!
I need to get up to Oregon some day. *sigh*
So may places to visit, so little gas money

 

[ozzy_scl]

no, just a basic haze filter. I put a haze filter on ALL of my lens's as cheap insurance. This point was brought home when I got my foot tangled in my sync cord during a shoot, and the client got to watch my 40D take a 4 foot drop on it's nose.
I picked it up, checked the action out on the lense, unscrewed the *severly* dinted and cracked filter, cleaned the lense and finished the shoot.
That client went out and bought haze filters for all his lens right after that.
I now have a remote trigger in my hotshoe.

WOW! that sounded scary!.

I do the same, although some people say is not good to cover your "perfect front element with a cheap filter"

I say, I rather risking taking an ok picture, with a "cheap" filter, than buying another lense.

 

[John C]

WOW! that sounded scary!.

I do the same, although some people say is not good to cover your "perfect front element with a cheap filter"

I say, I rather risking taking an ok picture, with a "cheap" filter, than buying another lense.

A $15 filter is cheaper than a $500 lens any day.
I tend to prefer Tiffen filters. They are definately good quality filters.