It really depends on the complexity of the panorama.
For most panoramas, the subject matter dictates the requirements, and it's easy to visualize/pre-visualize.
Add to that the experience of ensuring sufficient overlap, especially at the edges of the panorama.
It only becomes truly difficult with multi-row panoramas, where you're not just using one row for the panorama, but three or more.
It becomes particularly problematic with bokeh panoramas/Brenizer method, which require lenses with the largest possible entrance pupil.
Lenses like an 85mm f/1.2 or f/1.4, 105mm f/1.4, 135mm f/1.8, 200mm f/2.
This definitely results in a multi-row setup, often involving several dozen individual shots.
In these cases, I use a Leica 24mm optical viewfinder for pre-visualization.
Of course, it's also possible with a mobile phone or a second camera with UWA, but I prefer a classic optical viewfinder.
King Mountain ID - 720 IR
I was there to film the Solar Eclipse in 2017. This was one of the more interesting locations on the path of totality for the eclipse. The haze in the distance was smoke in the air from numerous wildfires in the region.
mojoh wrote:
Very nice panos from all !
With such a wide field of view, how did you compose (or even choose a scene to begin with)
Some, it's a fairly "easy" location, wide works well. But I have a couple of bad weather stitches from the Grand Canyon that I just shot a series of overlaps quickly for the view and the clouds, trying to avoid the rain, hail and hints of lightning and to get the larger "area" and I'm still working out crops and editing. But I'm a dabbler compared to the serious photographers here.
I was skimming the forum on my phone this morning, checking some threads for discussions. Saw these and didn't really get the impact. Now, on my desktop, these really work, the detail, the atmosphere. Very well done.
Craig Gillette wrote:
I was skimming the forum on my phone this morning, checking some threads for discussions. Saw these and didn't really get the impact. Now, on my desktop, these really work, the detail, the atmosphere. Very well done.
Thanks! I feel that happens quite regularly with panos. Doesn’t help that we typically hold our phones vertically.. but also calmer images benefit from larger screens generally, I think.
mojoh wrote:
Nice!! Good that u spotted these and pano-ed it. Back home in my city, I may have walked past such opportunites daily and not even noticed it..
These were hard to miss. Nothing subdued about the main two here. Part of the first annual O-Town Walls Mural Fest in Ontario Ca. 16 or so new murals in their arts district, along with several existing murals and decorative signage, etc.
Panoramic views from the 'Mathematical tower" of the Old University on historical center and baroque Aula Leopoldina of my home city Wroclaw/Lower Silesia/Poland.
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