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The June
2008 copy of Photography Monthly carried an article by
Wayne Brittle on the subject of taking panoramic
photographs. I found Wayne's article particularly
interesting because he did not follow the normal pattern of
suggesting that a Panoramic Head was essential, which often
discourages people from trying panoramic photography for
themselves.
I find
creating panoramas rewarding and feel that they often convey
the feeling for a location much better than a collection of
single images and responding to Wayne's article by writing
to Photography Monthly. My comments were printed on
Page 153 of the August 2008 copy together with my panorama
of the Roman Amphitheatre in Amman, Jordan. |
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Panoramas for all
I have just put down the June
issue and thought I would write in to say how much I
enjoyed Wayne Brittle's article on panoramic
photography. I find creating panoramas rewarding
and feel that they often convey the feeling for a
location much better than a collection of single images
and applaud his article which helps towards encouraging
people to try panoramas for themselves. With some
of the low cost software available for stitching images
anyone, especially if they are shooting digitally, can
enjoy making panoramas without having to spend lots of
cash, as almost any camera can be used to create the
images. Unfortunately most articles on panoramic
photography insist that a panoramic head is essential so
I found it encouraging to see that Wayne mentioned that
you could get by without one as the cost of the
panoramic head could be more than the camera, even the
Panasaurus, which I use with my Nikon D60.
Hopefully this will encourage people to make panoramas
themselves without having to spend money and then
perhaps they might purchase such items later.
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Roman Amphitheatre, Amman |
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The
panorama can be viewed dynamically by clicking on the
image. This is a
QuickTime
*.mov files and needs the appropriate software to run it.
Quick Time *.mov files can be quite large so may take some time to
download, even if you have Broadband. |
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Create your own
Panoramas
Panoramas are straightforward to create from images from
just about any camera, with the help of low cost
software. This page is intended to encourage you
to create your own Panoramas. |
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