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Does a fisheye lens count or do we really have to "stitch" things together otherwise it is not allowed?
Turn your ultra-wideangle (rectilinear fisheye as most extreme) to portrait and stitch 20 to 30% overlap. I do it all the time with my 16-35mm @ 16mm. Weak point of stitched panoramas are top and bottom edges cut tight if taken in landscape mode which is a more natural orientation to the photo flow, but portrait gives a lot of excess than can be cropped as appropriate. Of the 5 or 6 I am about to process, all were taken portrait except one where couldn't get good match points to link the last two frames, so took landscape as insurance.
Took a few panoramas. This is the one where landscape saved me. The whiteish mist of water wiped out the necessary overlap control points on the portrait series.
This is the broad view from the Canadian side with International Bridge, Niagra and Bride Veil Falls, then ending with Horseshoe Falls.
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This is the broad view from the Canadian side with International Bridge, Niagra and Bride Veil Falls, then ending with Horseshoe Falls.
At night with falls lit in the country flag colors
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A fisheye counts especially if you crop it to something wider than a 3;2 aspect ratio.
I was referring to a 3;2 aspect ratio from what appears to be a normal or regular wide angle lens. Those would be more at home in the POTD thread.
Panoramas cover a much wider angle than regular images. Landscape orientation does not make it a panorama. The aspect ratio is also important Panoramas fall well outside normal aspect ratios of 5;4, 4;3, 3;2.
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Ghost Ranch , Abiquiu N.M. , 17 shots , G9 , 12-60@12 , f6.3@1/3200 , ISO 400 , Stitched in Affinity Photo , Cropped in PSE .
Taken from Sandia Peak , looking away from Alberquerque . 12 shot pano , stitched in Affinity Photo , cropped in PSE..
I've noticed this earlier already and I'm wondering: what's the advantage of cropping in PSE instead of Affinity Photo?
Had you exported the Affinity file into JPEG format? The native Affinity files won't upload.
Yeah , I won't try to upload anything but a jpeg scaled to 2000 pixels wide . Found out about Affinity files not uploading a while back . Right now , I'm leaning toward the problem being on my end , have to play around a bit tonight to see if I can find out what's up. Verizon upgraded my FIOS box and router a few weeks back and every now and then glitches pop up .
FWIW For posting on macrumors I limit my file sizes to 1000 pixels vertical or 2000 pixels horizontal. Going any bigger usually serves no useful purpose and can cause glitches.
One 'mo time , this time from a different computer connected to a different port on my router . Taken from a stop on the High Road to Taos , 12 shots , stitched and cropped in Affinity Photo 2.0 .
This is a panorama of an hexagonal square, in Palmanova, that has still a star shape. One of my best friends lives there.
It would work so well in our “leading lines" P52 week.
This photo shows well the shape
That doesn't look like you're looking away from Albuquerque...looks like looking at south-west with Airport in the center?
It's a photographic lens that yields images where straight features, such as the edges of walls of buildings, appear with straight lines, as opposed to being curved.
That is my point...
The term used was "Rectilinear fisheye."
"Rectilinear" lenses render straight lines straight.
Fisheye lenses give a Fisheye-type projection/rendering.
The term "Rectilinear fisheye" is inherently contradictory, unless there's something I'm not aware of, as a lens can't be both rectlinear and a fisheye(although perfect rectilinear wide-angle lenses are rare...)
You're probably right , being local . I was standing with the TV towers to my right . I've got shots to make a pano . looking from the other direction . I'll put them together tonite and get your opinion as to what exactly I was looking at . I suspect my sense of direction was thrown off by not knowing where I was going , plus the winding of the road on the way up .
A five vertical panel stitch.
As with all the images posted in this thread, be sure to view at full resolution.
![LundbreckFallsB.jpg]( "LundbreckFallsB.jpg")
As with all the images posted in this thread, be sure to view at full resolution.