{"id":2999,"date":"2013-02-03T09:59:37","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T09:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2013-02-04T08:04:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T08:04:34","slug":"panoram-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2999","title":{"rendered":"Panorama photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This panorama was taken in the garden when we had some snow last month:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/panoram-photography\/e13_0451p1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3000\" title=\"E13_0451p1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/E13_0451p1-600x154.jpg\" alt=\"Snow in garden panorama\" width=\"600\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/E13_0451p1-600x154.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/E13_0451p1-300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/E13_0451p1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>I have had an interest in panorama photography since I had my first digital camera in 2004 which came with panorama stitching photography. Although this was OK with snapshots, I could not get the quality I wanted with photos taken with my DSLR. So, last month I invested in some decent, modern panoramic stitching software.<\/p>\n<p>The above image was the results of a trial run stitching 3 views using this new software. I must say I was quit impressed by the speed and the quality. I decided to try this out on some other panoramas that I took in previous years to see what the quality was like:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3001\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/panoram-photography\/d07_8375pano1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3001\" title=\"D07_8375pano1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D07_8375pano1-600x66.jpg\" alt=\"ynyslas panorama\" width=\"600\" height=\"66\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D07_8375pano1-600x66.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D07_8375pano1-300x33.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/D07_8375pano1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This is a 2007 view of the beach in mid Wales at Ynyslas, composed from 13 individual frames, taken with a DSLR. I was very pleased with the result. Previously, I had some slight tonal differences between the frames that showed in the final image &#8211; this software has smoothed them out.<\/p>\n<p>I also tried the software on some of my early attempts with a compact camera &#8211; this one I am particularly pleased with:<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3002\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/02\/panoram-photography\/sta_0556pano1\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3002\" title=\"STA_0556pano1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/STA_0556pano1-600x179.jpg\" alt=\"salad crops panoroama\" width=\"600\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/STA_0556pano1-600x179.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/STA_0556pano1-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/STA_0556pano1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>This shows some salad crops growing in the polytunnel at our previous smallholding in Wales. This was taken with a 5Mpixel camera with no manual focussing and limited exposure controls (An Ixus 500).<\/p>\n<p>You can see more of my panoramas in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/panoramas\/miscellaneous\/index.php\">the gallery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This panorama was taken in the garden when we had some snow last month: I have had an interest in panorama photography since I had my first digital camera in 2004 which came with panorama stitching photography. Although this was OK with snapshots, I could not get the quality I wanted with photos taken with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2999\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Panorama photography&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-panoramas","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}