Lamington panorama

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Lamington panorama

Postby DaveB on Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:55 pm

I 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.

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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. :(
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Postby Glen on Thu Dec 01, 2005 3:57 pm

Like it Dave, I imagine it should look quite good in a large view. I thought I was going to be looking at something to eat (and a pano of it, no less).
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Postby Nnnnsic on Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:01 pm

Nice shot... yet somehow I was expecting a panorama of cakes...
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Postby radar on Thu Dec 01, 2005 4:02 pm

Hi Glen,
Glen wrote:I thought I was going to be looking at something to eat (and a pano of it, no less).


What else would one expect for the official Dinner pastrycook :lol: :lol:

Nice one Dave, you went to a lot of trouble by the looks of it, but worthwhile result.

Cheers,

radar PS: I'll be there in April, on GC, hopefully doing similar travels.
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