Panoramic Tests

Shawnee and I were down at Belle Isle again this Thursday with another dog from the SPCA, and I decided to try something new. I have read a lot about how great the new picture-stitching automation in Photoshop CS3 is compared to the older versions, but had yet to ever give it a try. I have to say that everything I read was true and that stitching these panoramic photos together worked almost flawlessly, with only a few touchups needing to be done manually. I want to do some more of these soon with more carefully planned compositions, and print them large to hang in the apartment. Not only does this process give me the ability to get a much wider angle of view then even our 17mm lens will allow, but it also makes the end result so much more detailed. These pano's all consist of between 5 to 10 photos shot with a 10 megapixel camera, which creates an end photo that in essence simulates a 50 to 100 megapixel file and gives much more detail then simply cropping one photo to panoramic proportions. It is hard to show this off on the web, but I have included one of the photos a second time at the end of this post with a 100% crop to try and give you an idea of how much detail is in these. Thats enough tech talk for now, enjoy the pictures.

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