Yesterday morning I took six photos of the beach, covering 180 degrees. I stitched them together in Photoshop and wasn't really pleased with the results.
I tried a very good, free, panorama, stitching program from HERE (http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html)
and was able to come up with this image. I did do extensive retouching in Photoshop: color adjust, 50% gray overlay to adjust light and dark, smudgeing of the water and sky and cloning. Would make a good promotional piece for the condo we're staying at.

Hey I thought you were in Minnesota. But I don't blame you. Rumor has it that it still is cold up there.

Photoshop has a panaorama feature built in. To find it go to File/Automate/Photomerge.

Very nice picture/panorama that you constructed.

What a glorious view!!

There is just something wonderful about an uncluttered, unpopulated beach. It's like you have to whole world to yourself!

My first stitching project was of a panoramic view of Los Angeles. I'm not an expert photographer by any stretch, but I did this with an Olympus 2.5 MP camera and no tripod. The vista is from the terrace of the John Paul Getty Museum and it was a pretty clear day. I got lucky!

I stitched this with PhotoShop's stitching feature.

This is a panorama of where I live on Seabrook Island near Charleston SC

Hey maybe we should have a panorama section on this site?

Lovely, Phil. Charlston is such a photogenic city. :-)

Ski trip in La Plagne (France). No real touch up on this, just stitched them together, could probably do with some work.

I know this is not a photography forum but....

Many of us take landscape photos using wide angle lenses.

Wouldn't make more sense to shoot the photos to be used in a stitching project, using a longer lens? Since wide angle lenses tend to add spheric distortion to the images, wouldn't it be better with longer lenses since there is much less distortion?

Wondering...

Great work everyone! It looks like a lot of you have done a pano or two. Maybe a pano forum would be a good idea. With all the talent here I'm sure we'd see some great wall-hangers.

This particular panorama was a particular challenge for me because:

It covered 180 degrees;
The exposure varied significantly from left to right;
My vantage point was only 150 yards from the water so I had to shoot at wide angle which, as Frank mentioned, produced spheric distortion;
The waves were in motion;
The couple on the beach were moving;
The vegetation looked messy;
there were distraction like other signs, and a couple of trash cans.

The exposure was corrected using selective correction on the sky with appropriate feathering and smudging. The distortion produced a curved horizon line that I corrected by using a horizontal Guide line, then a rectangular selection along the horizon that allowed me to clone the water to get a perfectly straight line. The waves did not line up properly so I used a light touch with a smudge brush to "fix" them and also produced some nice breakers. (These are more prominent on the full size (42" W) picture.) The couple on the beach were indistinct so I cut them from the original photo, resized and pasted. I then touched up the vegetation and removed the trash cans and signs with the clone brush. And finally, I selectively adjusted light and dark with a 50% gray overlay. By the way, those tiny bumps along the horizon are oil drilling platforms.

Attached is the pano I started with.

as we all know, paint shop pro is the poor man's photoshop and sadly, this sometimes shows up in the quality of the routines. nonetheless, i gave it a shot.

craig

Well, what I do to create panoramics, of course this methods are good, but I think all it's in the camera.

As you can see, the Horizont always get lost.

In you sea, the horizon it's great, but the shore it's weird, so, I angle the camera shots

I usually take 30 pics for a panoramic view, and begin with a very angulated one like this: /

Let's say I shot a curve, Imagine a ball (football) that it's making a semi circle in the hair and you have to picture it, but the brand needs to be in the perfect middle of each shot

Craig,

A sewing machine! Of course, why didn't I think of that. You should have used colored thread though. :lol:

Group,

You might want to try AutoStitch. It's a very powerful and so far free program developed at the University of British Columbia. I use it at my university to stitch large satellite image tiles and so far it is the most effective app that we've used.

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~mbrown/autostitch/autostitch.html

Lorenzo

Craig,

A sewing machine! Of course, why didn't I think of that. You should have used colored thread though. :lol: all i had was yarn :)

craig