Hi Michael,
When you get home, having stitched it all together, do you then look at what you have, and then decide to go back and concentrate on a 'more normal' view of just one area? I think this could be interesting, while the scaffolding is up, but I don't know how you would get to the viewpoint I would have in mind (slightly less emphasis on the 'chimney', more prominent church towers.)
beautifully interesting.
Best wishes, Ray
Hi Ray,
If the goal of these pano's were 'more normal' view-shots, you could use either just a singleshot, or if a bigger size is required, take a more tele-orientated lens, like a 100 or 200 mm on FF. Off course you can crop the pano to any desired size; and it's good fun to look at all these single elements of a picture: the reason for using zoomify is that it looks to me the most appropriate way of showing a bigscale-pano at the web; we spoke about that last year, already.
So that pano will be printed in several copies at about 120x 50 cm, and I'm sure it will look great. The client liked the NewYear's card, which was intended first, very much and wants the posters, now.
Personally, I previsualise the pano in my mind, before shooting and chose the lenses: I can setup 7 different lenses on my panohead, on location, which allows to get every desired image angle - horizontally and vertically - in the pano later.
That's one of the big points of stitching! No boring 2/3-ratio, but the scene, and how you want to relate things to other ones, putting it into perspective. You can't have that with a singleshot, unless you use a ultrawide, with its disadvantages.
Maybe this picture explains better, what I tried to say with that °relating°
It might be boring for some people, but the people from the area like it very much, as it relates big mountans to smaller ones and to houses.
(5 x distagon 28, on FF, giving a HFOV of about 170 degrees) - it will be printed big, too.