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Step 3Take pictures!
Ok, in order to get all the information for your panorama, you're going to need to take a picture of every single point you can see from the camera's point of view. There's an easy way to do this: through a series of stacks of vertical pictures.
How this works is you start with the camera pointing straight down, and you take a picture, then tilt it up so that there's about 40-50% overlap between the first two pictures. Keep moving it up and taking a picture, until you get the camera pointing straight up. This is a stack of vertical pictures.
After taking your first stack of pictures, loosen the screw on the camera, so that you can rotated the camera horizontally, and do so, about 18%. It's a good idea to look through the viewfinder, when you rotate it, facing the camera at the horizon, to get a good idea of how much overlap there will be, between this stack and the previous one. After it looks good, tighten the screw again, to prevent horizontal rotation, and point the camera straight down, to start another stack.
Keep doing this, until you've rotated all the way around, and you should have all the pictures you need.
During the picture taking, it's important NOT to move your tripod, at all. Taking pictures from even slightly different points of view can mess up the final result.
As you may have noticed, the sample stack has about 10 pictures in it, and if you rotate 18 degrees each time, that'll work out to 10 series, thus 100 pictures. Don't be afraid to take more, though. If you feel like you're missing an area turn the camera towards it and snap another picture. You want to be thorough; it's better to take 5 pictures of the same area, than only 1.
How this works is you start with the camera pointing straight down, and you take a picture, then tilt it up so that there's about 40-50% overlap between the first two pictures. Keep moving it up and taking a picture, until you get the camera pointing straight up. This is a stack of vertical pictures.
After taking your first stack of pictures, loosen the screw on the camera, so that you can rotated the camera horizontally, and do so, about 18%. It's a good idea to look through the viewfinder, when you rotate it, facing the camera at the horizon, to get a good idea of how much overlap there will be, between this stack and the previous one. After it looks good, tighten the screw again, to prevent horizontal rotation, and point the camera straight down, to start another stack.
Keep doing this, until you've rotated all the way around, and you should have all the pictures you need.
During the picture taking, it's important NOT to move your tripod, at all. Taking pictures from even slightly different points of view can mess up the final result.
As you may have noticed, the sample stack has about 10 pictures in it, and if you rotate 18 degrees each time, that'll work out to 10 series, thus 100 pictures. Don't be afraid to take more, though. If you feel like you're missing an area turn the camera towards it and snap another picture. You want to be thorough; it's better to take 5 pictures of the same area, than only 1.
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