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Anonymous
ITT panoramic shots. This one is of my backyard. I guessed at the angles and the sunlight made each photo slightly different, hence the apparent borders of each photo. With more work and a better camera I can make them look much better.

Btw, it's a feature in photoshop. Anyone with a camera can shoot three pictures and go to Auto Align in photoshop. The outcome is usually impressive.
>> Anonymous
when you were taking the pictures, did you turn your whole body or did you pivot the camera around one central point like on a tripod? Because if you're not using a panoramic camera, the latter usually works best.
>> pano rowan
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Panoramic cameras are the shit.
Especially when used at low angles like this.

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>> Anonymous
>>63582
I turned my body because it seemed more logical than guessing where the camera should point. Also, if I turned my hands would cramp because my particular model of camera needs time to store its photos before I can take another picture. It's a bitch and I want a better quality camera (although not really, I just like taking pretty photos sometimes and I don't want to drop ~$1,000 to do that..)
>> Anonymous
The more photos you use in a panorama, the better it comes out. You want something like, 60-70% overlap for every photo. The cartographers who make the giant aerial maps will use 90-95% overlap, just to make their jobs easier.

And no tripod? No problem, cuz this next tip works better than one anyway. Unless you have a special panorama head, you're going to get parallax. I'm willing to bet, however, that you do have an office chair or barstool or a lazy suzan (those rotating wheels you put on your table). Stick your camera on one of those, move it so the lens (not the camera body) is positioned over the axis of rotation and snap away. Stick something under the camera so you don't get any of the chair in the bottom of your photo, if you feel so inclined.
>> Anonymous
oh, and to check for parallax, stick your finger in front of the camera. rotate your chair left and right. if your finger moves in relation to the background, then you have parallax. if the whole image moves as one, then no parallax.

it's sort of like the difference between moving your head to scan a room (parallax) and moving your eyes (no parallax)