Personal challenges?

[WDI 1998]

Currently I am working on Panoramic photography. Last time I was at WDW I was just toying around with it but I have taken it up as a much more serious challange since then. I have shot a bunch of Non-Disney ones since but this one I took during my last stay.


Coranado Springs Resort by Doug McClentic, on Flickr

I have some really cool ideas for when I visit WDW next and hope to continue to improve and perfect my methods. You can see some of my other Panoramics on my Flickr page.

 

[celticdog]

I did a prime lens day during our August 2012 trip. The 50 mm on a crop body was great for family candids but I found it difficult to get anything more creative. I think the juices just weren't flowing that day. For next time I plan to have a 35 mm prime in the bag - that or a full frame body.

On our last trip I too used only a 50mm F1.2 prime for the whole trip. It was a challenge and I got some good pictures, but I got a whole lot of bad ones. I found it particularly difficult at night to properly focus.

 

[CP_alum08]

Currently I am working on Panoramic photography. Last time I was at WDW I was just toying around with it but I have taken it up as a much more serious challange since then. I have shot a bunch of Non-Disney ones since but this one I took during my last stay.

I have some really cool ideas for when I visit WDW next and hope to continue to improve and perfect my methods. You can see some of my other Panoramics on my Flickr page.

Are you using a camera with a panoramic "function" or are you stitching shots together? I've only done a few panoramics, but I stitched them together in PS and it took FOREVER. I'm sure there are easier ways to do it than what I did, actually I think there are specific programs that do it now, but I was just wondering what you were doing.

 

[WDI 1998]

Are you using a camera with a panoramic "function" or are you stitching shots together? I've only done a few panoramics, but I stitched them together in PS and it took FOREVER. I'm sure there are easier ways to do it than what I did, actually I think there are specific programs that do it now, but I was just wondering what you were doing.

The camera I am shooting with does not have the panoramic function so I am stiching them together using a program called Microsoft Image Compositer Editor. I downloaded it for free. It does a good job. I have not tried it using Photoshop but I do understand the current versions do have the ability to stitch photos together.

With M.I.C.E you just drag and drop your shots to the work window and it does it automaticly. You can then make adjustments to the combined image. Not hard at all to use. There are a bunch of other programs but so far this is the only one I have used specifically for panoramics.

I shoot all my shots RAW and then process them in Lightroom 4. I will edit one shot then copy and paste those settings to the remaining shots so I get them all to match before I combine them.

 

[NowInc]

In photoshop, you just have to go to File -> Automate -> Photomerge.

It works VERY well