Reef Panorama Photo

[justleesa]

Olympus cameras have the panorama option...would it work with that?
I've tried it above, and it worked great:

Image by justleesa (Copyright) posted at ScubaGallery

 

[Quarrior]

Way cool.

 

[fpoole]

Heyyyyyy... now that's a kewl thing...
Is there a simple way of doing that... simple is relative?
as in Photoshop? or if I recall there's a "Stitch" program floating around there somewhere??
Great photo, anything other than shooting 2-4 photos of the area in a pan and then trying to stitch (the hard part) them together??

and also I guess you could stitch to the top/bottom also eh??

thanx..

 

[nlbford]

Thanks for the nice words folks.

In answer to a couple of your inquiries about easy ways to do it, yes, there are. Photoshop has Photomerge, Nikon software has a really deep pano functionality. They work pretty well with some images too. And if you don't have a lot of experience with photocomping, they definitely make sense. It's just to me, by the time I fiddled with the automatic software stuff and waited for the computer to do it's handy work to see the results, I found I prefer the old fashioned metod - at least for high resolution stuff. Plus it just appeals more to my illustration background to get in and do it myself. I feel more "painterly"

Here's another i did by hand to create a "mythical" place that would exist if you could take the island of Tahiti and plop it down in the middle of the laggoon at Rangiroa atol. I could not do this image with Pano-software because there are no common parts to any of the photos I used, thus no way to match like things up for the computer to do it's work:

 

[justleesa]

Fantastic!!!!!

 

[Dee]

Other than a slight shift in the blue sky above the sailboat on the right, and another at the beginning of the mountain, I'd never believe this was a composite. Very well done!

I'm still confused about how you did it 'by hand'.

 

[azcaddman]

taken in belize last may, 8 frames of 35mm film with a 20mm lens (portrait), yeah-its not a good lens choice, but its what I had at the moment. Also, no tripod. It covers about 200°

orig image is 9000x2700 pixels, resized here to 2000 wide.

 

[Lat. Adjustment]

Cool shot but glad I didn't try to view on my 10.4" laptop screen! I guess I would be giving my age away if I told you Ebo was our DM when we stayed at the Hotel Bonaire in 72.

 

[icyman]

Great shot, I love it!

 

[XJae]

awesome pics.

i've thought of doing something similar with
some of the deep dark wrecks around here.