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Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:22 pm**

All I can say is, I'm glad there was no Sahara dust this day!

Edited to straighten horizon - thanks JMQ!

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:28 pm**

Beautiful! What camera did you use for that?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:30 pm**

I used my trusty Canon SD400 and Canon's Photo Stitch software.

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:33 pm**

Just Beautiful! I believe, I see BANDIT down there on the beach... writing something in the sand?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:34 pm**

Did you use a panorama setting?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:42 pm**

sea-nile wrote:Did you use a panorama setting?

No, although the booklet that came with my camera says there IS a panorama setting, I think my camera isn't a "fancy enough" version, so I don't have it. I took 4 consecutive, overlapping pictures and Photo Stitch did the rest. I tweaked it a little in Photoshop after it was stitched. Actually it came out better than most of the panoramas I try to take. I think it's a keeper.

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:42 pm**

CA - Beautiful.

Not to pick nits, but it is something that drives me crazy in my own photos...seems with some point n shoot digital cameras, the horizon in my pictures also shows up being slighly tilted in the frame like this one, even when I try not to do this when taking the picture while completely sober.

Probably has something to do with the viewfinder/LCD not being accurately lined up with what gets recorded on the memory card (parallax angles??). Never had this problem with an SLR.

Anyways, see if your Photoshop has a "straighten picture" function like later versions Microsoft Picture It! has. That one is pretty easy to use to "correct a skewed horizontal orientation".

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:45 pm**

JMQ - I don't know how I missed that. Usually crooked horizons drive me insane! It's easily fixable, as you said. Now I have another little project

You can always "pick nits" with my pictures. You are my photographer hero on this forum! Wouldn't you just LOVE to take one of Steve Simonsen's classes?

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 12:58 pm**

jmq, thanks for that tip for me as well!

CG! That is gorgeous!

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 1:04 pm**

Thanks for sharing. I never get tired of that shot. It always lifts my spirits.

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 1:05 pm**

lovely

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 1:19 pm**

sea-nile - the Canon panorama setting is pretty easy to use and helps you frame the overlapping shots. When downloaded from the camera, they have a image number followed by and A,B,C etc. that you put together using the Canon Photostitch software. Not hard.
Some examples...

Here is one of Megans Bay

Here is one of the saddest sights...

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 1:29 pm**

Here is what I did to get a pathetic panorama picture. I took several pictures in a row slighlty overlapping where I left off. Then I printed them and put them together with tape.

Pretty hokey. I guess I will need to take the time to learn all of the software. My teenage daughter should be able to teach me but she "doesn't have time to help me".

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 1:52 pm**

Beautiful picture California Girl!
I bought a tripod to help with my skewed horizons, because mine are always slanted. I don't know if it is going to work or not. I'll find out very soon!

Posted: **Fri May 18, 2007 2:08 pm**

can you photostitch w/out a Canon?

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