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Rusty » Mon Mar 08, 2010 1:56 pm
The biggest problem I see with vertical panos is changing perspective. If you start out reasonably close to the tree/tower/whatever, the change in vertical perspective from one image to the next is going to make it very difficult to stitch the images together.
What I find myself doing is getting as far back from the subject as I can and then using a tele lens to take a series of images. The plane of the film (sensor) in relation to the plane of the target doesn't change that much. Hence, very little change in vertical distortion.
One may ask, "Well, if you can get back far enough, just take one image and crop it. Right?"
Well, yeah, you can do that. But, when you crop, the resolution of the resulting image falls to the point that a good quality print is not likely. If you don't care about printing, don't bother with a panorama.
That tree is great, Betty. And, I'll guarantee you that a stitch of 84 individual images, I'm guessing each ten or so megapixels, produced a very, very sharp composite. Even looking at just a web image, you can see great detail.
Rusty