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Step 2Take your pictures
When choosing a subject, I reccomend something outdoors; it will end up looking better.
Also, you want to choose a subject that wont be moving or have alot of people walking around in your picture.
I chose my old high school, at night when no one was around. I wouldn't always reccomend doing this at night, because the pictures may turn out too dark, but choose choose for yourself. You can experiment and see if things turn out how you like.
Now, before you take a picture, you'll want to mess with your cameras settings in two ways:
1) Make sure the flash is off
2) Make sure the settings are manual, not auto. On manual, mess with the settings until you see something on the image preview that looks good. Fool around with the white balance and film speed and things to change the brightness.
The reason you're doing these two things is so taht each picture is taken with the same settings, and the same brightness. Otherwise, when you stitch your pictures together into a panorama, there will be ugly lines going accross your picture, where the brightness changes.
Now, time to take your pictures. If you have a tripod, I highly reccoment using it. If not, you'll need to find another way to ensure that your pictures aren't changing in height (one was is to use a visual cue. I did it, by making sure that the horizon was flush with part of my autofocus indicator on the LCD screen). anyways, you want to take a picture on the far left end of what you're photographing (you could start at the far right end, and go right-to-left, but we're doing left-to-right in this example).
Now, take a look at your picture, and make sure it looks how you want it to, brightness-wise and what-not. Then, turn your camera a little bit to the right, so that the right 50% of your last picture is the left 50% of your new picture. You want to make sure that you keep the camera level (which is alot easier with a tripod). Continue doing this, moving about half the size of your camera's view each time, until you feel you've got a wide enough angle.
You don't want to go a complete 360 degrees, though, because this may confuse the computer programs, as to where the edges of the photograph are supposed to be.
Also, you want to choose a subject that wont be moving or have alot of people walking around in your picture.
I chose my old high school, at night when no one was around. I wouldn't always reccomend doing this at night, because the pictures may turn out too dark, but choose choose for yourself. You can experiment and see if things turn out how you like.
Now, before you take a picture, you'll want to mess with your cameras settings in two ways:
1) Make sure the flash is off
2) Make sure the settings are manual, not auto. On manual, mess with the settings until you see something on the image preview that looks good. Fool around with the white balance and film speed and things to change the brightness.
The reason you're doing these two things is so taht each picture is taken with the same settings, and the same brightness. Otherwise, when you stitch your pictures together into a panorama, there will be ugly lines going accross your picture, where the brightness changes.
Now, time to take your pictures. If you have a tripod, I highly reccoment using it. If not, you'll need to find another way to ensure that your pictures aren't changing in height (one was is to use a visual cue. I did it, by making sure that the horizon was flush with part of my autofocus indicator on the LCD screen). anyways, you want to take a picture on the far left end of what you're photographing (you could start at the far right end, and go right-to-left, but we're doing left-to-right in this example).
Now, take a look at your picture, and make sure it looks how you want it to, brightness-wise and what-not. Then, turn your camera a little bit to the right, so that the right 50% of your last picture is the left 50% of your new picture. You want to make sure that you keep the camera level (which is alot easier with a tripod). Continue doing this, moving about half the size of your camera's view each time, until you feel you've got a wide enough angle.
You don't want to go a complete 360 degrees, though, because this may confuse the computer programs, as to where the edges of the photograph are supposed to be.
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