moshenko Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 Hi, We've just finished a really fun project at the Distillery District in Toronto and I thought I would share this photo. We were doing some renderings for a rooftop amenities area and I went up to a nearby tower roof to get some background shots. The first round of photos turned out really well so I went back to do a panorama shot from the same spot. This is a rarely seen view of Toronto's downtown because of its location in the East end and the general lack of tall development there. One lucky guy has a penthouse directly below the rooftop that I was shooting from and gets pretty much this same view every day. This shot was taken with my Canon 5d and a fixed 50mm lens using a Manfrotto panoramic head assembly. The final image was comprised of 11 portrait shots stitched together to form a 22,000 pixel wide image. This particular version is a quick stitch (you can see the seams pretty easily) from the JPEG shots but I am going to work on another version from my RAW files when time permits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 amazing shot ....lucky guy who has that view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trino Posted June 9, 2007 Share Posted June 9, 2007 very nice shot, love the colors, thanks for share it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugga_Guy Posted June 10, 2007 Share Posted June 10, 2007 hey I see my office and my condo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshenko Posted June 11, 2007 Author Share Posted June 11, 2007 hey I see my office and my condo! Where? and Where? Are you home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlimpMaster Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 That is a great view. What are you using to stitch it together? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ky Lane Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 Man I miss Canada...what I'd give to live/work there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted June 20, 2007 Share Posted June 20, 2007 ja, very nice! can't wait for the final version. what was your techn. for each shot, automatic exposure or what, and what were your camera settings? I find its kinda difficult to shoot night panoramas and have started now to look into jut setting the right WB (for each seperate shot) so that each photo have the same color temp. cool shot man, you should post the final on istockphoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshenko Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 That is a great view. What are you using to stitch it together? Incredibly, I used the stitching software that comes with Canon DSLR's. I also have PTStitcher/PTGUI that I may break out for a final, but the Canon version works well when you have very controlled shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moshenko Posted June 20, 2007 Author Share Posted June 20, 2007 ja, very nice! can't wait for the final version. what was your techn. for each shot, automatic exposure or what, and what were your camera settings? I find its kinda difficult to shoot night panoramas and have started now to look into jut setting the right WB (for each seperate shot) so that each photo have the same color temp. cool shot man, you should post the final on istockphoto.com The technique is very simple: The Manfrotto panoramic head, once set up properly, does all the work. It's a bit tedious to get the camera properly aligned but once it's done the pano head enables one to set degree increments. So, I set up increments of 18 degrees and started shooting. The pano head keeps everything level and places the optical centre of the camera on the rotation axis. As far as settings go, for each image I shot both manual RAW and an automatic exposure JPEG. Auto settings for some of these were 5 - 8 sec exposure, F8, ISO-100. I'm admittedly not the greatest photographer when it comes to completely understanding these things, but I'm trying to get back into it. The manual shots are a bit nicer and they definitely benefit from doing some work on them in RAW format. Thanks for the comments everyone - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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