More Charismatic Photography:
Today I decided to experiment with a “portrait panorama”/”tower panorama”, AGAIN. This is the sister tower of the one from yesterday.
Photos were taken early evening today. It was overcast, drizzling a little bit so I’ve used a cooling filter on the sky. Getting the magic wand to fill in all the little bits between the leaves of the trees was quite fiddly and time consuming. I used Photoshop to up the brightness and vibrance a little and to do the crop.
Only thing I’d like to improve is the middle tall palm tree is a little dark, probably the camera adjusting to the light from the sky. I couldn’t see an easy way to correct this.
Photos taken on iPhone 4s. I used PTGui Pro to stitch together the photos.
This “tower panorama” is 12 photos taken in landscape orientation (2w x 6h), although it’s irregular and at the bottom on the right hand side I took two shots in the same place, but PTGui figured it out anyway !
iPhone 4s photos are just under 8 mega-pixels, aspect ratio 4:3. PTGui “master”/”raw” panorama is 6301×9551 pixels, a whopping 60 mega-pixels !
Here’s the contact sheet, including the “raw” panorama from PTGui
Don Charisma 
Nice photo. The pics I take with my ipod look like garbage. It’s impressive how a skilled person can make good looking pics with the right know how.
Thanks for the compliment. I think one of the reasons I like the panorama is that one can get much more detail/quality for a poorer quality camera, like I did one recently from my old iPhone 3G camera, and result was stunning. The photoshop effects are relatively simple, just using magic wand to select the sky and then use a blue colour filter to give that blue sky effect.
Bottom line, is that anybody could learn how to do this, and I do put out articles on how-to 🙂
Thanks again
Warm regards
DC
I really like this shot Don, upward shots always look so cool, & the clarity is great! 🙂
Thanks Amanda, it was today’s project, the others somehow didn’t make it onto my blog, tomorrow i guess! I posted about the blue filter for the sky, took a bit of magic wand’ing especially the light coming through the trees, but it’s a nice effect. Also a gentle up on the vibrance seems to bring out the colours. Would have liked the palm tree to be a bit brighter but couldn’t see how to do that … cheers DC
Nice
Thanks:)