Big

Big shots.

There are times I can't resist the temptation to take a sequence of pictures with the intention of making a panorama out of them at some point in the future.

They usually spend months as near neighbours on the disk without being stitched together,awaiting that time when I feel motivated enough to do the work.

Here's a simple two image panorama of Coverack harbour from last spring.

The Coverack pano was stitched using the picture merge feature of Photoshop CS3. This seems to work rather well, and in fact does a better job than I can manage with manual methods.

This next image of Tarn Hows contains around five images. The extra width has created an aspect ratio that would prove difficult to print and display.

Now this next pano is formed from eight images from an Olympus 8080. It shows the west Berkshire countryside from one of by favourite vantage points near Coombe Gibbet. The original is around eighteen thousand pixels wide and is unlikely to get printed or displayed at all. It is nice to roam around it full size on the computer monitor, but its frustratingly difficult to view in its entirety.

Finally this twenty five thousand pixel monster was the result of a midsummer sunrise project. This really has reached the point where the end result is unusable. I calculated it would make a print 15 feet by 9 inches... Try mounting and framing that.

I must ask myself if this is perhaps a futile exercise next time I am tempted to make a giant panorama image. You can't print them full size, you can't view them full size conveniently, and as you can see: You can't even post them on the web full size either...

Step away from the view and put the camera down...