"Stitched" Photographs
Intro: "Stitched" Photographs
Sometimes a picture tells a story. Other times the story just needs more.
STEP 1: Storm Moving Across the Valley
On a family vacation to Mesa Verde we stopped at the last scenic over look on the way out of Mesa Verde. On this particular day there were three fast moving storms traveling across the valley. The view from horizon to horizon went from one extremely sunny, beautiful afternoon ahead of the storm to a very dark shaded area under the storm. I did not have a wide angle lens with me at the time so I started taking photographs of the event with the hope that I could create a panoramic shot of the valley. I thought with creative framing I might be able to create a "window view" of the storms.
STEP 2: Stitched Photograph
With digital photography creating a stitched photograph has become a lot easier. With the printed photographs laid out on a flat surface I was able to pick the photographs that matched the best to decide which photographs to use. Then I used all of these photographs to create the large stitched image. Your results are better if you have the long line of photographs, and some that are above and below the image. I used ArcSoft Panorama Maker, but there are several programs available.
The program will have you select your images then place them in order. Once you have them placed the program analyzes and matches pixels to create a unified single larger image. With your photographs in order and "stitched" you can select how to crop the very ends, top and bottom edges until you are satisfied with the results.
For the price of the software, which is only slightly higher than the SD card you use in your camera, you now can have panoramic shots without the cost of a large panoramic camera.
The program will have you select your images then place them in order. Once you have them placed the program analyzes and matches pixels to create a unified single larger image. With your photographs in order and "stitched" you can select how to crop the very ends, top and bottom edges until you are satisfied with the results.
For the price of the software, which is only slightly higher than the SD card you use in your camera, you now can have panoramic shots without the cost of a large panoramic camera.
2 Comments
Mama Reni 11 years ago
I knew I was planning to frame them separately until I learned I could put the whole thing together so i had been pretty careful not to alter the camera settings as I framed up the shots. There was not much to need to alter the images when I put it together. But it will still work if you happened to take several random shots, then decided later that it would make a great single image if you put them together.
When you get ready to create a panorama the program ask you what type of images you are using, ie, still shots, jpegs, and several other images and then it will ask questions based on your answers. For this image it requested information about the lens.
amandaghassaei 11 years ago