Some Panoramas! - Download Update

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 12:32 am

Ok, so I'm still messin' around with my photos and tonight I worked on some panoramas. The originals are so huge that you can zoom in on the most incredible detail, like St. John Spice and the people in line at immigration in the Cruz Bay picture, for instance. The original Coral Bay/Cocoloba panorama is 10886 x 2231! Anyway, I hope you enjoy these views of some spectacular scenery!

Cruz Bay

Coral Bay from Bayview Villa

Coral Bay/Cocoloba Plaza

Waterlemon Cay/Leinster Bay

Trunk Bay

Dave-a-roni · Post by **Dave-a-roni** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:00 am

Holy crap! C-girl, these are beautiful, really. I see you have a few of these on your public photo's, would you have these available to download in the FULL sizes? I would love to use them as desktop wallpapers. I especially like the Coral Bay from Bayview Villa pic and Coral Bay/Cocoloba Plaza pic.

What camera did you use for these? Just wondering... cause I have an "old" Kodak Advantix camera, model 4100ix and it takes panorama's. It's really neat, but can never remember to bring it with me anywhere when I travel

Thanks for sharing, I love lookin at others pictures.

mbw1024 · Post by **mbw1024** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:56 am

those are all great but that view of Coral Bay ... wow, that's a killer! nice work!

sea-nile · Post by **sea-nile** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:25 am

WOW! Great pictures!
I am still trying to figure out how to merge some of my pictures to do this.

mia · Post by **mia** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:39 am

Great pix CG...love the splashes of turquoise in the distance of the Waterlemon Cay shot.

RickG · Post by **RickG** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:52 am

me-too, can you provide a site for the full size images? What camera?

Cheers, RickG

FlaGeorge · Post by **FlaGeorge** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:21 am

You've done it again. Great shots. I don't wnat them as wallpaper - I want to be there. Thanks for posting.

Steve S · Post by **Steve S** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:31 am

I have never been able to stitch that seamlessly. My experience is that the auto-exposure settings change enough as you turn the camera relative to the sun that it is noticeable from one section to another. What camera and software did you use?

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:24 am

Wow, thanks everyone! I didn't expect such a great response!

I took two and Rick took two. I have a Canon 400D and he has a Canon Rebel 350D. I took the Waterlemon and Coral Bay from Bayview ones, and he took the Cruz Bay and Cocoloba ones. Most of the photos are a composite of 3 to 4 different shots and "stitched' together with the Photo Stitch software that came with our cameras (sorry Mary Beth, I still can't find the disc!).

I worked for literally hours in Photoshop to remove the lines you mention Steve. It was not easy, but worth the work.

Dave-A-Roni, I used to have an Advantix, too, and I swore I'd never get another camera I loved it so much. But then digital came along.

Unfortunately I don't have enough server space to upload the originals so you can download them, the sizes are as follows:

Cocoloba - 10886 x 2231 (7.20MB)
Coral Bay - 5339 x 1660 (4.38MB)
Waterlemon - 5927 x 1681 (6.17MB)
Cruz Bay - 8064 x 2173 (10.2MB)
Trunk Bay (which I re-did and it's better now) - 5208 x 1580 (5.32MB)

However, if you want me to burn them to a CD for you I'd be happy to do so.

Rick, if you know a way other than this, please let me know!

jmq · Post by **jmq** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:50 am

The Photostitch software that comes with Canon cameras works pretty seamlessly most of the time for me without extra work (I wouldn’t know how to “blend” the seams out if I had to).

And as for exposure question, when you choose the panoramic setting on the Canon camera when taking the shots, the exposure from the first shot as you begin the panning series of shots is locked in for the entire series.

Its fun to use for cityscapes as well as landscapes.
Some examples:

JMQ

Ksea · Post by **Ksea** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:53 am

CA Girl those are wonderful! Thanks for sharing. Oh how I long to be there again very soon

cptnkirk · Post by **cptnkirk** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:07 am

Girl those are some awesome pics. My Cannon IS2 came with that photostitch software but I've always been to lazy to try it, you've convinced me to give it a try.

cirruskye · Post by **cirruskye** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:14 am

Holy COW!!!! those are some beeyootiful pixs.
thank you for sharing. It makes me want to be there more!!

cherie

cypressgirl · Post by **cypressgirl** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:32 am

Amazing photos!! I leave one week from today. This gets me even more in the mood. (If that's possible)

California Girl · Post by **California Girl** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:53 am

JMQ: My camera (the 400D) doesn't have the panoramic setting. If I'd only bought the next camera up... [sigh!]

And I don't think Rick's learned how to use his panorama setting yet... STJ was pretty much the maiden voyage of his new Canon 350D.

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Some Panoramas! - Download Update

Some Panoramas! - Download Update