David Kennedy
12-27-2007, 01:45 AM
Welcome to Panoramic Images!
This panorama of the Big Sur, California coastline was created from eight vertical captures from this July on a road trip from Redwoods National Park to San Diego.
I'm posting this as an example of an image that conforms to the "rule of thirds" and is an exact fit to my "ideal proportion" of 8:3 (width:height) for large-scale stitched panoramas. This image is 33 inches wide without interpolation.
8:3 is by no means a hard and fast rule, but it is a useful guideline as stitched panoramas, in particular, tend to get out of hand. I have printed images that were eight feet wide but only one foot tall, and they suffer for their stunted presentation.
Capture data:
Canon 5D, 70-200mm f/4L @ 140mm, 1/80 second at f/8, ISO 125
This panorama of the Big Sur, California coastline was created from eight vertical captures from this July on a road trip from Redwoods National Park to San Diego.
I'm posting this as an example of an image that conforms to the "rule of thirds" and is an exact fit to my "ideal proportion" of 8:3 (width:height) for large-scale stitched panoramas. This image is 33 inches wide without interpolation.
8:3 is by no means a hard and fast rule, but it is a useful guideline as stitched panoramas, in particular, tend to get out of hand. I have printed images that were eight feet wide but only one foot tall, and they suffer for their stunted presentation.
Capture data:
Canon 5D, 70-200mm f/4L @ 140mm, 1/80 second at f/8, ISO 125