I love shooting panoramic (pano) photos. Not the kind you do with your iPhone. The ones I take are usually composed of a series of photos I have taken from the same place, with my feet firmly planted on the ground. I swivel my upper body and shoot anywhere from six to 15 photos. Before I start shooting them, I take a photo of my left foot. Then when I finish, I take a photo of my right foot. When I am doing my photo triage, later on, I know where the pano starts and ends.
Then I process those photos in Camera RAW and stitch them together in Photoshop. From that, I have gotten some pretty good panoramic photos. But I will let you decide. I decided to put together this post because I have so many panoramic photos, but I can’t post them on Facebook or Instagram because they crop them severely. When I do, you can only see the very center section. So here are a few of my own with a caption that tells you where I took them. As you will see, I take them both indoors and out, of scenery and people as well. Anytime I have a subject that won’t fit into one frame. My shortest (the indoor one in Naples) is only three photos stitched together. My longest (not sure which one) might have as many as 20.
Don’t forget, if you click the first shot, you can then scroll through with your arrow keys or by swiping…and PLEASE…don’t look at my photography on a phone. To really see these, you have to see them BIG!
In the beginning, the cubists broke up form without even knowing they were doing it. Probably the compulsion to show multiple sides of an object forced us to break the object up – or, even better, to project a panorama that unfolded different facets of the same object.
—Marchel Duchamp
Thanks…# 27 then 21 are my favorites…They are all great!
You have some great panoramas there, very impressive. I also have the facility on my bridge camera which seems to work okay. Photoshop sounds very laborious.
I particularly love the one in Messina.
As you say, how do you display without it all getting cropped? I see you have got around it by reducing the overall width of the image, it works okay on my monitor. 👍🏼
All very nice Jim. I love panos too, but displaying them is always an issue. It is unfortunate they can’t be displayed in full res.
They can Mike, you just need someplace to print them that has a really long roll of photo paper…and of course a GIANT wall to display them on.
I do understand that way of displaying them. I don’t think I have a big enough wall. 😁
U know my fav. I’m sticking with my iPhone.