Lamington panorama
Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:55 pmI spent last weekend on the Gold Coast, both days zipping off into the hills to check out national parks. Saturday was Lamington NP, and this photo was taken in the middle of the day on one of the walking tracks near Binna Burra.
EOS 10D, 17-40mm@40mm, f/10, ISO 100
This is a 17 Mp composite of four images (stitched with CS2's PhotoMerge). I didn't have an MPR rail (now there's a tautology!) to adjust for the len's nodal point (and thus parallax was going to be an issue) so I opted for a vertical pano instead of a horizontal one.
The camera's L-plate was mounted sideways in the ballhead's clamp, with the ball tilted sideways into the head's slot. The rotation was then done by simply rotating the ball. Not quite as clean as using an MPR rail, but I was surprised how little parallax distortion I had to deal with in stitching!
I did had some more frames above this, but they got washed out with sky light and flare.
EOS 10D, 17-40mm@40mm, f/10, ISO 100
This is a 17 Mp composite of four images (stitched with CS2's PhotoMerge). I didn't have an MPR rail (now there's a tautology!) to adjust for the len's nodal point (and thus parallax was going to be an issue) so I opted for a vertical pano instead of a horizontal one.
The camera's L-plate was mounted sideways in the ballhead's clamp, with the ball tilted sideways into the head's slot. The rotation was then done by simply rotating the ball. Not quite as clean as using an MPR rail, but I was surprised how little parallax distortion I had to deal with in stitching!
I did had some more frames above this, but they got washed out with sky light and flare.
