Panorama 5

Sue was surprised at the result of her panorama (LR) of the Ribblehead viaduct - wonder what it would produce with a polar filter as well 

Paul Sanwell donated some very interesting panoramas from various locations

Bob shared two images from Iceland and two from Therfield Heath

Roger and John contributed some excellent examples of stitched panoramas

Panoramas 4

 Ian shared some excellent panoramas - all shot vertically (with a tripod I believe!) - mostly from Iceland though a bit of Southwold crept in at the end

Panoramas 3 - links for Techniques and Software

Chris showed three different techniques for stitching panoramas together. The easiest is Lightroom (6 onwards) - if you have Lightroom 6 then you now get a Boundary Warp to fill in the blank areas. 

If you want a good review of the whole business of making Panoramas then try this link http://www.panoramic-photo-guide.com/panoramic-photography.html

Polar Panoramas.
If you want to have a go this link gives you a simple tutorial http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/create-your-own-panorama-planets/

1. Bibble

2.Photoshop

3. Similar result with Lightroom CC and Boundary warp

 4. Another Lightroom image

5. Hotel de Ville Paris with Photoshop and some Polar Panoramas.

Panoramas 2

 Alan shared some very impressive landscapes where he had used the Lightroom Photo-Photo Merge-Panorama (Ctrl/Cmd-M) to stitch images together. This facility appeared in Lightroom 6 and above - well worth the upgrade!

Panoramas 1

January's Aperture took comparing in-camera and software techniques for producing Panoramas and HDR images. We also touched on Focus Stacking - another technique that Olympus has now added to its battery of camera software.

First some observations from Ann - some of the pit falls of using the camera panorama setting.

This is a Crop of a Wide-angle (10mm) image of the Seven Sisters from Seaford Head

Using the panorama mode on the Fuji T-10 (vertical position) - unfortunately I haven't kept the horizon straight!

 Here - a nice straight sweep but I had a graduated filter and forgot to rotate

I like this one though not sure why there is a hot spot centrally

 Here how to do an extreme panorama by joining two in camera panoramas in Lightroom

What happens if you set the camera to sweep in vertical mode and use it horizontally!

 Above were all Fuji compact system camera - this is with the Sony RX100 in the Lake District - I find this compact does an excellent job on panorama mode