Sydney Panorama

[Lumen Miner]

Hi all! Decided to try and find a high point to shoot Sydney from. This is taken from Thompson's corner just about the highest point in Sydney. The view is South South East, towards the city.

It consists of six a shots, with the 200mm Canon lens at full zoom stitched together.

I was suprised at the detail of the Bridge, Center point and the Opera house.


Thanks for looking!!


Edit~ Bugger, the 1.7mb file has heaps more detail. This is not such a good rendition.. Sorry.

[DavidU]

Excelling panorama mate !Keep the good stuff coming.......

[dpastern]

That's a good panorama, although I'd crop out that tree on the right hand side. Pity about the smog :(

Dave

[mithrandir]

Nice job Mitchell. When shooting panos the general rule is to have 1/3 frame overlap. I would have thought at 200mm you'd need a few more frames.

[Lumen Miner]

Thanks Dave and David.

Yes the smog is terrible!! Not as bad as it looks though. In the higher res version, you can almost make out the individual bricks on the Bridges pillars.
I think I might take you up on cropping that tree.

[Lumen Miner]

Oh really? 1/3 you say? Why is that? I have been only overlapping maybe 1/10, I was assuming the smaller the better. I shall try 1/3 next time. Thanks mate! :thumbsup:

[dpastern]

I've heard 1/3 cropping overlap too.

Dave

[mithrandir]

The extra overlap lets the pano software (or your eye if you are doing it by hand) find more alignment points. In scenes like yours that probably isn't that important because you have sharp contrasts and less distortion with the longer focal length.

[Lumen Miner]

Oh! Tops! I will use that rule from now on thanks. This is my first pano which has actually turned out alright. Previously my seems were not acceptable, in the slightest.

I would like to go back and redo this in the afternoon orange light, then later at night with the lights of the city... I would assume the 1/3 will be helpful especially on the night shot...

Thanks!!

[StephenM]

Looks great Mitchell. I'll have to try doing one of these!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Jeffkop]

Awesome ... came up a treat