Disney panoramic photos

[saturndb]

Here is my first attempt

 

[b.head2008]

im so in love with these!!! can someone explain to me how they are done?

 

[WickedWench]

Here are mine:

GF from the boat dock at MK.

View from my room at the Poly (Niue):

Waiting for LMA to start:

This one has a visible seam, which I'm not happy about, but it'll have to do.
Norway Viking ship:

This is a 360 degree view from Sunset Point at the Poly. I wish I had taken the shots vertically so that the tops of the trees would have been visible. They look like telephone poles.

 

[WickedWench]

im so in love with these!!! can someone explain to me how they are done?

If you have a digital camera, you just take a shot, pan a bit, take another shot, etc. Then software is used to "stitch" the pictures together and eliminate the overlap. Some digital cameras even have features to aid in lining the shots up.

 

[JimbobJimbo]

This was my very first attempt at a pano

 

[11290]

im so in love with these!!! can someone explain to me how they are done?

Lot of steps that can be used or not. What I do most of the time:

1. Mount camera on tripod and insure that it is level.
2. Decide where the beginning and end of the area I want is and then take a meter reading from the middle area of the pano.
3. Set that reading in manual mode on the camera. This makes sure that the aperature / shutter speed / white balance is consistent from end to end of the picture. For instance, if you start at one end in bright sun and end up in the shade, sometimes the images will change so much that you will have to do a lot of post processing to get a decent end result.
4. Start at one end and take as many shots as necessary to get about a 1/3 frame overlap on the preceding shot.
5. Stitch together in pano software. In most current software you can set the value of the cameral lens and it will automatically correct for lens distortion. In most software you can also correct for any distortion of images that may occur by way of tilting the picture a little bit, picking out several objects in one picture and aligning them with the same objects in the next image, etc..
6. Once that is all done, then crop the image to get rid of the rough edges from the stitching and you are done unless you want to do further post processing of the resulting image.

You can do these handheld also but you have to insure that you keep a fairly level camera line while you shoot the images. Software is so good now days that it is possible to get great panos without a tripod if the light is good and the subject has a lot of "compare and lineup points" for it to combine the images.

Just my way of doing it. A link to a good "how-to":

http://www.panoguide.com/howto/panoramas/shooting.jsp

 

[PhotobearSam]

These are all so cool...

 

[b.head2008]

Thanks... im gonna have to try this soon!

 

[saturndb]

Ok just two more. did these handheld and the first one uses I believe 7 different pictures.

 

[boBQuincy]

I tried this one manually some years ago and it turned out ok (some seams and matching issues), PS CS4 did a great job in about a minute. Ya' gotta' love the latest software!

 

[Gdad]

Large File 5000x1500

6 Shots merged in CS3
28mm f1.4 1/25 Sec
ISO 12800
Ride Stopped

 

[Rescue Pooh]

Great shot! Love it.

 

[YEKCIM]

Cool shot, Jeff. Do you have some "inside contacts" at WDW, who stop the ride for you on cue (remember TTA?)?

~Ed

 

[CdnDisneyLover]

Great shot!!! Brings back the memories.........

 

[saturndb]

you are my hero!

 

[Todd_H]

Awesome job, Jeff!

 

[WillowBelle]

Looks like someone made good use of being stopped for a bit of time. Fantastic shot!!!!

 

[spacemountain]

Wow, love it! Great job!

 

[YesDear]

Show off!

Another great picture!

 

[Gdad]

Cool shot, Jeff. Do you have some "inside contacts" at WDW, who stop the ride for you on cue (remember TTA?)?

~Ed

Haha- If I had that I would have had them stop me in front of the HM Caretaker a long time ago. I can never get a shot of that guy.