A technique for creating images that offer a wide view of a scene, where the image width is usually significantly wider than the image's height. Panorama images can be created by cropping or, more commonly, by "stitching" several images together to create the larger image.
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Which tools are good for creating panoramas/stitching multiple photos?
Can anyone recommend some good tools for creating panoramas from multiple photos.
(Free and commercial)
Personally I use either Windows and Ubuntu, but I'm not fussy, suggestions for other platforms ...
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Is there free software to automatically search for photographs that can be stitched together to form a panorama?
I'm looking for a free solution to automatically detect photographs that can be stitched together. A paid-for solution already exists - naturally, I wonder if there is any open-source or freeware ...
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How much to zoom while shooting a single row panorama image?
Matt Grum mentions in a comment on an answer related to locking parameters when shooting a panorama that it is beneficial to zoom out on the middle section of the image while shooting a single row ...
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Create custom Google Streetview panorama?
I have a 360° panoramic photo, 18432×9216 px in size, stitched with ICE. I have uploaded the panorama to Photosynth, so that it can be viewed and navigated conveniently. However, Photosynth requires ...
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How can I get better results photographing dry erase boards?
As far as photography goes, I'm less than an amateur. I have a camera my friend (the head of the photography dept. at a local college) recommended to me that I really want to learn to use, but ...
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What is the added value of a panorama head?
As an amateur I've done several panoramas of landscapes and city views. I've mostly done it hand-held with a DSLR, with exposure lock and at the wide end of my zoom-lens.
I do the stitching in ...
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Does Microsoft ICE correct barrel distortion?
For a panorama, I created more than a hundred images with my Panasonic Lunix DMC FZ5, with 6mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 36mm). I want to import these images into ICE, to create a panorama.
The ...
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What method can I use to create an indoor panorama?
I want to create a stitched indoor panorama of a medium sized greenhouse (which is about 10x20m in size).
I have created many, many landscape and cityscape panoramas before using a long lens (say ...
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Stitch first and edit later or vice versa?
I have a set of three images imported in Lightroom 3.6 which I want to stitch into one panorama using Photoshop's CS5.5 Merge to Panorama tool. As I see it I have two options in doing so.
Doing all ...
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Where can I get a frame for a 4x18" panoramic print?
I know a specialist framing shop can make custom frame sizes but are there any places that make this frame size as a pre-set item, for a panorama?
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How do I combine multiple exposures for action shots?
I'd like to create one of those "stacked" action shot images where multiple exposures are combined to show the subject moving across a static background. Here's an example I found on Flickr (by ...
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Are there any 'panoramic' digital cameras?
I found a picture of this camera, a Horizon S3 U-500, (I've personally never seen anything like it before) and did some research. It turns out its a specially designed camera to take wide (but not ...
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How can I align two panoramic images?
I have two panoramas, which are already stitched. They were taken four years apart, of the same town from the same location. I want to align them and show them side by side, so that the viewer can ...
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How to shoot with the Brenizer method with an active, moving background, i.e. on the streets
If the background is moving, like a street full of people and you're shooting a stationary subject with the Brenizer method, how does that work? When you stitch up the surrounding area wouldn't it be ...
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What is “bokeh panorama” (also called the “Brenizer method”)?
Somewhere I don't remember, I heard about the Brenizer method.
After reading a few sites, there is no consistent information about what it is exactly, or what the procedures are to apply it, so:
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How can I achieve something similar to “Google Business Photos”
I was introduced to Google Business Photos by a company a few weeks ago, and when I saw what it could do I was VERY impressed.
See: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/help/maps/businessphotos/
The 360 ...
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Digital strip camera options?
My ultimate goal is to set up some sort of digital strip camera rig for taking stereoscopic 360° panoramas.
I'd like to use a strip camera because it allows for fast panorama capture and ...
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HDR then Panorama, or Panorama then HDR?
When creating a panorama for a scene of huge dynamic range, intuitively I always merge exposure brackets to HDR and tone-map them and then stitch the resulting images into a panorama. My intuition ...
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How can I improve stitching of nadir and zenith shots in 360º hemispheric panos?
I am trying to implement full hemispheric panos as a product for Realtors and for another project I am working on, but am having problems with my software stitching the zenith and nadir points. My ...
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What photo editor for Mac offers image filters with live previews, HDR composition and photo stitching?
I am looking for a photo editor that offers to...
...choose filters by comparing live previews, not via contextual menus
...create panoramas by photo stitching
...create HDR images
I would be nice ...
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Software for gigapixel photo stitching
What are some software packages (Mac, Windows, or Linux) that make it simple to stitch thousands of photos together into a gigapixel image?
For my purposes, it does not necessarily have to have the ...
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Looking for a true 360 degree camera
I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this.
What I ...
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Why is Photoshop not merging my panorama?
It's not something i am planning on doing often but I wanted to try to do a panorama and use Photoshop's "Merge to Panorama" feature to stitch the images. Previously I have only done this manually.
I ...
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What is a vertorama and is it really different from a panorama?
Is "vertorama" a real photography term, or is it simply something that people use to describe a vertical panorama? I never thought that panorama was limited to horizontal landscape oriented images, ...
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Is there a “sweep style” iPhone app that mimics the new Sony compact camera technique?
I love capturing panoramas on my iPhone and for this, I use Autostitch Panorama. But does anyone know of a "sweep style" App for the iPhone that mimics the technique used in the new compact Sony ...
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How do I create a panoramic picture?
I saw a nice panoramic image online. How do I go about creating my own (say, of my yard at home)?
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Is there a recommended aspect ratio for panoramic photos?
I'm learning to create panoramic photos. I'd like to know if there's any recommended proportion to determine its size. I have the feeling that 4:1 is fine, but I could'nt find any pattern.
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Where can I print a panorama?
You scout the location, bring your tripod with you, wait for the right light, become victim of weather in the meanwhile, take an insane amount of photos, work hours on getting the stitch right, and ...
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Where can I find photos taken by a calibrated camera to make a 360° panorama? [closed]
I am trying to write up an automatic 360° panorama stitching program for my final project, in order to do so, I need to accomplish four steps:
Find the horizontal and vertical field of view for a ...
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Tripod Head for GigaPan Epic Pro
I get massively confused when it comes to tripod heads screw sizes blah de blah, so excuse the possible simplicity of this question. I have a GigaPan Epic Pro and a Manfrotto 475B Pro Geared Tripod. I ...
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Online viewer for panorama photos?
Are there any better services to upload wide (10K pixels wide) than flickr? I would like to see some kind of 'fit to screen height' and zooming functionalities.
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How to stitch automatically panoramas of images that lack well defined elements, sharp edges?
I often take large landscape panoramas of 100+ 21MPixel images. Quite often some of the images do not contain sharp, well defined elements that can be detected by automatic control point detectors. ...
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Where could I get a tripod for panoramas on iPhone?
I'm interested in taking great panoramic views.
Photosynth on the iPhone looks pretty cool, but I'd like great looking images so I'm in need of a tripod.
I've seen this one ...
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Hugin image/layer order
I made some huge panorama but to complete the background i used some 'low-res' pictures from a much wider lens.
Everything is well connected, but the image order is not the order from the "Images" ...
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Is it possible to create an inside-out panorama?
I was thinking about this, but have yet to try it.
A normal panorama sweeps to capture a wide angle, what I want to achieve is the opposite:
by moving the camera around a subject and stitching the ...
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How do I identify and track panorama photos in Lightroom 3?
I stitch together a fair number of panoramas (using AutoPano Pro) and I'd like a way to better organise them in Lightroom, in particular:
I want to mark the fact that a photo was taken as part of a ...
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Gigapixel panorama problems
I took hundreds of pictures from a 75mm-300mm lens in Cristo Rei(Lisbon), but since Hugin (panorama tools GUI) canoot distinguish well water from... water(neither i) i took the river pictures with a ...
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How do I stitch two star trails photos taken by different cameras?
Last night I took some star trails photos. I set the shutter speed to 30", put the camera in burst mode and used my remote shutter release (with shutter button lock) to hold down the shutter button. I ...
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How to publish super-mega/gigapixel panoramas?
Flickr, Picasa Web, SmugMug, Zenfolio are all the wrong places to publish massive things like this. They have awful limits. I haven't been able to find a gigapixel host that is like Flickr/Picasa ...
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Why would I want to use a tilt shift lens for panoramic photography?
I read that some people use tilt shift lenses for panoramic photography, and being that I currently have access to the Canon TS-E 24mm f/3.5 L II Tilt-Shift Lens I wanted to give it a try. Do I just ...
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how to use Canon 16-35 with hugin?
I'm trying to create 360 degree panoram with hugin +Canon 5d iii +canon 16-35 at 16mm f/5.
I took 72 images of my surroundings and am trying to combine those in hugin. I've tried various lens types ...
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Cheap panoramic setup
I'm looking for a cheap panoramic 360x180 (approx. don't mind the "feet" as long as it's close) setup with decent resolution. I weighed my options and thought up the following:
cellphone with ...
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What would be the right approach to take pictures of a long counter?
I am trying to take a picture of a long counter in a super market. It is about 15 yards long. I inched along (at about a distance of 3 yards) and took straight on 30-35 pictures with my 16-35mm at ...
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Is there a way to correct exposure on photos in a panorama taken without AE lock on?
I made a stupid mistake on some of my pano's I shot this past weekend, I forgot to hold AE-lock. Now I've got about three photos that I can't use due to difference in exposure on them.
Is there a ...
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Preserve manually selected detail when stiching panorama in Photoshop
I have a set of photos that I would like to stitch together into a panorama in Photoshop. One of the photos contains a fast moving subject (birds) that I would like to preserve. How can I force ...
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Will Nodal point change if I change zoom on camera?
when I find Nodal point on my camera, and I zoom in, is it necessary to rearrange camera?
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Which parameters to lock between images for a panorama?
I gather that common wisdom says that in addition to camera position you should keep as many variables as possible the same between different shots for a panorama. Variables that spring to mind are ...
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Using PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens
I'm starting to experiment with PhotoMerge to simulate a wider angle lens than I have available.
Right now I know I need to use manual exposure and to provide sufficient overlap between the images. ...
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How can I make PhotoMerge work with very dark sections?
Recently, I've been experimenting with stitching together images using Photoshop CS4's PhotoMerge feature. It has always work well except for my most recent attempt. This one was at night (which is ...
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What is a good 360 degree camera?
I want to buy a new camera for a 360 degree shoot , so can anyone suggest me the good one
I have seen that Sony Bloggie camera which has 3D camera and a 360 degree lens too, so does this camera have ...
