20 Great Stitched Panorama Examples
In a previous post I laid out some guidelines for helping you create stitched panoramic photographs. To help further inspire experimentation of this technique, I scoured Flickr for some prime examples of what can be accomplished. Each image links back to the Flickr page and most contain large or even original size images if you want to take a closer look. If you have some examples of your own that you’d like to share, please feel free to post a link and description in the comments section below.
Mist covering village - Copyright René Ehrhardt
Underwater Panorama - Copyright Odyssey Expeditions
La caverne aux livres - Copyright gadl
Panorama di Orvieto with the famous Duomo - Copyright pizzodisevo
Panorama view from Mont Fort - Copyright Olivier Bruchez
Room - Copyright ‡ M ‡
Panorama of the riverside in Cologne - Copyright Curnen
360° panorama at Higashiyama Zoo - Copyright emrank
Muscat (Oman) Mosque Panorama - Copyright stanleykubrick
Grand Canyon - Copyright Corey Ann
Beijing Olympics: Men's Triple Jump Panorama of Idowu Phillips - Copyright rich115
Grimmialp Panorama - Copyright [ t
Nathan Hale Park Sunset Panorama - Copyright versageek
Buenos Aires Panorama - Copyright lrargerich
Walls Fine Art Gallery - Copyright vabeachnet
panorama depuis le pilate - Copyright 1suisse
Bathroom - Copyright marcosvidal
C-5 Galaxy Panorama - britiger
World War II Memorial, Washington DC Panorama - Copyright Gore Fiendus (Jerry Frausto)
Audi TT 3.2 Quattro - Copyright realname
59 Responses to “20 Great Stitched Panorama Examples” - Add Yours
May 20th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Here are a couple from Arlington:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_5mpJi3uoNuc/SeqTyqHNoII/AAAAAAAABiw/QWpt3I03rqc/s1600-h/Arlington+Cemetery+Panorama.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5mpJi3uoNuc/SeqbbPDQ69I/AAAAAAAABi4/MGhf1Ggdtgs/s1600-h/Arlington+Panorama.jpg
May 20th, 2009 at 1:16 am
Great photos!
May 20th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Nice selection of different kind of panorama images. Great images all of them!
My personal favorite among my own images is of The Cathedral in Palma de Mallorca, Spain. I’m still a newbie when it comes to panorama stitching and would appreciate comments. More of my panoramas.
May 20th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I did two panoramas myself:
This one from Edinburgh Castle overlooking New Town and this in winter near my appartment
May 20th, 2009 at 2:57 am
I have two panoramas that I took last night after a storm rolled through.
This one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruzer1800/3545020308/
the other one is here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/bruzer1800/3545020288/
Any advise or comments are welcome.
May 20th, 2009 at 2:59 am
They are all wonderful but that last photo… how on earth could that have been done? I saw stiching software the otherday and I cannot figure out how it was made.
May 20th, 2009 at 3:23 am
Love the panoramas, I’ve only done 1 myself, but hope to get a few more over the summer as we do a few weekend drives.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:09 am
Just thought that I would point you to a panoramic I took while in Scotland, at the top of the Sir Walter Scott Memorial:
http://glsmyth.com/Projects/Scotland/Edinburgh/Edinburgh.htm
If printed out full size it would be about 9″ X 88″.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Hello, check out this panorama I made of Cerro Torre in Argentine Patagonia. Thanks.
http://barblee.zenfolio.com/p689226869/h292f50bd#h292f50bd
May 20th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Wow, it’s funny seeing one of my images up there, albeit full of errors. Mine is the second from the bottom if anyone is interested. Thank you for including one of my panoramas.
May 20th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Antarctica, Ross Sea, McMurdo Station.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenklassy/3268143574/
May 20th, 2009 at 4:56 am
Antarctica, Ross Sea, McMurdo Station 360
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenklassy/2881178554/
May 20th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Local trainyard in Cayce, SC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35690704@N05/3511735648/sizes/l/
May 20th, 2009 at 6:03 am
This is one of my favorite of my panoramas of Diamond Head in Oahu, HI
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12052562@N07/2566824777
May 20th, 2009 at 6:34 am
see all my 145 winterpanorama pic’s of the Tree Valleys in France (les trois vallées, savoie, france)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/123_456/sets/72157618067249907/
May 20th, 2009 at 7:44 am
Here’s my latest from the Atacama Desert, Chile
http://www.flickr.com/photos/paolofusco/2193112191/
May 20th, 2009 at 8:28 am
This is when the Pasha Bulker ran aground in Newcastle, Australia
http://www.johncassimatis.com/archives/89
May 20th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Here’s my claim to fame…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deanschreuder/3385736687/sizes/l/in/set-72157615659845092/
May 20th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
I love teh one with the olympic dude. Extremely creative!
Here’re my panos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericsbinaryworld/sets/367610/
May 21st, 2009 at 12:04 am
This was my first attempt at a pano, before I learned a lot of the rules of composition, paralax, etc. This shot is from the Vista De Boquete in Panama and is comprised of 7 shots in 180 degree of view. In the original image, you can zoom down to the river to see a rope bridge with a man crossing!
http://picasaweb.google.com/kwfrazier/PanoramicPhotos#5298284598925238882
I framed the pano with the individual shots above, almost five feet long and two feet tall. It’s a great conversation starter as everyone that visits is immediately drawn to it.
May 21st, 2009 at 12:08 am
Awsome pics.
I played with a few stiches myself. These are from a trip to BC, Canada.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/roygaard/sets/72157618528491640/detail/
May 21st, 2009 at 4:25 am
what software for compound the images do you recommend? (open source is preferred). thanks!
May 21st, 2009 at 8:57 am
Those are great pictures. Thanks everyone for sharing!
Peter, as your previous post said, vertical ‘panoramas’ can make very interesting pictures.
I think this one
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elme/3337253335/
really allowed be to capture the grandeur of the roof of the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest. It was made from 4 vertical shots.
Combining vertical and horizontal can also give you a much bigger field of view than your camera normally would have. Sometimes it is not even obvious that it was stitched together, although I do find I have more trouble with edge distortions when I combine pictures this way. This is my picture of the St. Stephens basilica in Budapest, made from 12 shots – 4 vertical x 3 horizontal
outside: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elme/3337252877/
inside: http://www.flickr.com/photos/elme/3337252971/
This is my personal favourite in the “traditional” horizontal panorama format
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elme/3338085338/
Thanks for your tips :)
May 21st, 2009 at 12:10 pm
I’ve tried a couple;
One of Dubai Marina taken at night;
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3587/3550524878_0a077dc17b_b.jpg
and,
A panoramic of the city of Los Angeles as seen from Griffith Observatory; http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3301/3549713943_537f80efcf_b.jpg
May 21st, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I love all these panorama! I’ve made a few myself:
http://www.hang-out.co.uk/index.php/photographs/panoramas/
Really easy to make with Photoshop CS4.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:21 am
I really enjoyed these great panoramas, I do stitching quite often for my interior pictures too. Yours are very inspiring.
May 22nd, 2009 at 2:55 am
I agree about the last one. not really a panoramic is it? more like multiple shots layered, still good though.
Lenin and house of Soviets
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/2917835224/in/set-72157607532974030
Khor al Udeid in Qatar ( inland sea bordering Saudia Arabia )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/3398893265/in/set-72157607532974030
Salt pan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/3325825606/in/set-72157607532974030
Overlooking the Neva River in St Petersburg
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/2917011573/in/set-72157607532974030
Bridge over the Neva River ( Hermitage on left, Peter Paul Fortres on right)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rahsoft/2916986621/in/set-72157607532974030
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:33 am
Collection well done!
May 22nd, 2009 at 3:46 am
Thanks! It’s a lot of fun!
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:04 am
good article..
some of my panoramas
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/3304905561/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/2772898089/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/2773749260/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/2728017562/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/3305746136/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/3305765292/in/set-72157606795576058/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/3304928505/in/set-72157606795576058/ (much wide)
(vertical)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/globe_treader/3305737316/in/set-72157606795576058/
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:34 am
How on earth were the panos of the Audi and the triple jump done? Those are AMAZING!
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:45 am
If I may add a link: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Featured_pictures/Places/Panoramas
Bonus: these pictures are all free to re-use :-) (under a free license such as CC-BY-SA).
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 am
I also did a panorama of the WW II memorial in DC a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shardayyy/3514646738/in/set-72157616504112777/
May 22nd, 2009 at 5:44 am
i am amaed & inspired by all these awesome pictures.
here are a few i have done though.
albert docks liverpool, england
kirkstone pass, ambleside, england
Ullswater, england
liverpool albert docks, (thi one did not come out how i planned but i realy like it)
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:15 am
I take panoramic shot fairly frequently. Here are a couple of recent ones.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukwanderer/3491879255/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ukwanderer/3093128913/sizes/o/
Hope you enjoy. Comments welcome.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:08 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29201773@N03/3407239245/sizes/l/
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:31 am
mine did not work, !!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bagoogoo/sets/72157616955189612/
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:37 am
Kevin
the multiple shots of the audi
my best guess is to take continous shots when the audi drove throught the corner, then layer several of the shots where the car did not overlap, thus producing the head to tail line of cars.
the triple jump was likely done in a similar way as well
regards
May 22nd, 2009 at 11:02 am
Here’s one from New Zealand
http://images102.fotki.com/v856/photos/8/823885/4279727/PanoramaQueenstown-vi.jpg
May 22nd, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Nice collection you have. Thank you very much. Your guide also helped me to understand panorama photography. My last encounter with panorama was exposure and camera level. Guess with your tips.. I should be able to improve my skill.
I have one panorama of KLCC over here : http://digiphotodotcom.blogspot.com/2009/05/klcc-park-panorama-view.html
May 22nd, 2009 at 7:18 pm
This is the Flickr set of my wide panoramas shot.
Feel free to leave comments:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/scris/sets/72157603553515146/
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Love pano’s. I’m pretty new to this. Couple of attempts below. Any comments very welcome.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3344/3504794505_f7b6dd1daa_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3236/2965343104_f510c02370_b.jpg
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:27 am
I’ve taken some panorama shots in Australia. Here are the couple i like the best: One from Perth and another one from Sydney.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Although I am proud seeing my panorama from Cologne being featured on this site, I can only recommend visiting David Iliff’s Wikipedia Page for real quality night panoramas. My one was a humble attempt compared to them.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
i love this article, thanks for sharing! i did a Panorama of a train bridge. just a basic shot.
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May 25th, 2009 at 4:20 am
Always nice to see a pic published, mine is the Buenos Aires panorama.
About the Audi Picture:
It really is a panorama, I will try to explain how you can mame one too:
Lets say you take the pics from right to left trying to be careful to keep the car complete in each frame, a generous overlap between pictures is also a great idea.
You process the shot as a normal panorama stitching with Hugin, PtGUI or whatever you use for panoramas. Try to remove control points placed on the car and use the background to stitch (yes you need a non-plain background)
In the result you will have several “ghost” cars everywhere, this is not what you wanted.
You need to output the panorama as individual layers not as a single file, most stitchers can do this.
Then open the already aligned layers in Gimp or Photoshop and working with layer masks do some erasing from each frame.
I will try to refine that explanation next:
Lets say you have 3 pics
PIC 1: Car in position 1
PIC 2: Car in position 2
PIC 3: Car in position 3
In the layered output there will be an overal between PIC 1 and PIC 2, otherwise they can’t be stitched.
So you erase the car parts from PIC2 that overlap with PIC 1 leaving only the Car in position 1. Then you do the same between 2 & 3 and so on.
Luis
May 25th, 2009 at 10:27 am
I took this picture last year of the Penobscot River in Bangor, Maine. I stitched the photos together using Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor or ICE for short. Nice free program.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/zDbpgu06TwBbXuTzCb8YMQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCO7Wq7a22_q9AQ&feat=directlink
May 26th, 2009 at 10:45 am
Nice examples. Any tips on places that will print panaromic images at a reasonable price? is there a typical size that panaromics are printed?
June 12th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
The last one is my favorite too, but the shadows between cars could have been done better, maybe crossfaded between layers…
Nevertheless, excellent, photos…
Any comments, opinions, criticism are welcome on mine…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blue3/sets/72157611211168707/
June 24th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
Check mine
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14577925@N08/sets/72157620301217987/
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
sai ram brothers
This is a panorama i have taken with my sony cybershot w 100. This was shot last year in our city ,visakhapatnam,andhra pradesh INDIA.
I am so happy to see all the above inspirational works. Thanks a lot to all guys who made this site such a wonderful one.
July 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm
sai ram brothers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/venkateshhh/2679929026/
This is a panorama i have taken with my sony cybershot w 100. This was shot last year in our city ,visakhapatnam,andhra pradesh INDIA.
I am so happy to see all the above inspirational works. Thanks a lot to all guys who made this site such a wonderful one.
July 6th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Some of my panorama shots at shilthorn and eiger in swizz.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ankipraveen/1385988785/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ankipraveen/1385994475/
August 1st, 2009 at 4:54 am
I’m psyched you used one of my panoramas as an example above. I figured I’d post one of my more recent, a two photo vertical panorama: http://www.flickr.com/photos/versageek/3714041544/
September 4th, 2009 at 4:07 am
I did not see a reference to the ICE Site…Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. The application takes a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location and creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all the source images at full resolution.
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ICE/
September 18th, 2009 at 3:58 am
I have also made some panoramas, but not with only a few photos….I took 510 photos and stitched them together.
http://gigapixel.nu/photo.php?id=2
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:10 am
My experience is that I’m not happy “stiching” my photos together with software, but rather doing it manual in photoshop. Masking and Blending is the way to go. In this photo I have about 18 different vertical shots, but ended up using over 45 images to end up with this photo. Used the same photo about 3 different times to get all of the sky as well as the forground.
December 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Cool pictures. I have ever seen these pictures. Keep posting.
December 24th, 2009 at 6:55 am
An actually non-posed shot of my staff checking out our new offices in Guatemala. Feels a bit like an album cover: http://www.flickr.com/photos/aidg/4030798518/
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