Panorama Downtown Scene

Living on the coast, my wife and I decided we needed to take the time to shoot some photos at the docks near our downtown. Parking is free, and the weather happened to be good one Friday morning. Below is one of the scenes we spent some time around. 

5 Panel Panorama. Canon Eos-M 18-55 @ 18mm. Auto ISO and Exposure. Circular Polarizing Filter.

The five panels were shot in JPEG, processed in a photo editor [Affinity Photo, to taste], stitched together, and this was the result. Two other panoramas were shot as well, but water photos and horizons make for some challenging panorama conditions, especially handheld. The above was the best of the day. 

Panorama extravaganza

Panorama's are fun. Ever since I got an iPhone 5, I started playing around with the panorama feature build into the software. I remember thinking I would love to be able to do that with my camera, and I went digging around the internet to try to figure out how to make a panorama work. I discovered that programs such as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop have features built into it that would merge photos together and create a panorama.

Above is a panorama of Yosemite National Park in which I merged a series of six separate photos into one large panorama.



This panorama is a series of photos I took overlooking La Jolla California. What I discovered when I did this one, is that the program sometimes has a hard time merging together photos of water. I originally intended to have the water extend father out in the photo but this was all it could handle.