(cheap) Options for Panoramic Photography?

[Sheiky]

And thanks Jan, that pretty much exactly what I was hoping for, no need to go nuts on the accuracy (if the canon is a bit smaller than the samyang that's good, because the main complaint about ebay knock-offs are that they're too loose). And that's a popular enough product, ebay-ripoffs are down to $7 shipped so cheap enough for experimenting. (cheap rings for the 70-300L are up at $50, it's too new a product and no competition yet, I can wait on that)

No problem, I had seen the Ebay prices already. I personally would definitely try it out before buying any expensive stuff. If it works, show your work please...I just love panorama's!

[Dr Croubie]

Here's one shot that I really wish I had a good bracket for.


It was the samyang 35/1.4 around f/5-7 or so, hyperfocal, 7D, but only horizontal-mounted, on gorllapod wrapped around the top of a fence, with ballhead. Took 8 frames x3 brackets = 24 shots (1/500, 1/250, 1/125s), iso100. Also had the CPL mounted, and re-adjusted it after every pan, not sure if that was a good idea or not. The whole point was to get the thunderstorm approaching, but then it scooted off around to the north and missed us (the beach runs south-north, facing west).


This panorama is just the first 7 frames, middle-bracket-shot (left the last one out because it's just a house and didn't line up straight) of the camera-jpgs. Not sure if it looks any good shrunk this much but i'll see (original is a 28683*2893 tiff 316MB). Hate to think what'll happen if i use raw-converted-tiffs as the input, that 32GB of free space on the SSD could come in very handy...


The waves not lining up is possibly still noticeable even shrunk this much (i could try blurring more or just crop off in future). And even though I kept the shutter speeds per bracket the same the whole way, something messed up between the last few shots, you can see it on the sea (maybe that's the CPL's fault).


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And another view, the first 3 frames, all 3 brackets (9 shots), raw-converted to monochrome jpgs, stitched to an HDR tiff, my first attempts at tone-mapping to a 12646*3161 jpg (using Luminance HDR), then shrunk. The waves not lining-up is a lot more noticeable in this shot, as is the guy walking on the jetty, i masked him out in another attempt but not this one by the looks.


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And one that isn't a panorama yet, but I hope to make some very nice ones in this setting, when the mist comes into the valley in the morning it will look beautiful. View of the backyard of the place i'm house-sitting for all of next year (donkey included, as are a dozen sheep, half a dozen cows, and 2 chooks):


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