Would you share it?

[LewisCanon]

I recently attempted to do a panorama of an american war cemetery memorial wall near me...
the wall is something like 100feet long with Words inscribed along the top and names inscribed all over it.
i attempted to stitch in the usual methods... it failed...
i have attempted to stitch it myself in photoshop, which took hours and the resulting image is over a gigapixel.

However, Fundamentally, its not a good stitch, infact its a rubbish stitch by normal standards...
BUT, it is too my knowledge the only panorama of it... ever done.... should i share it?

[bigone5500]

I think if you want others to see it and are moderately proud of your work, then you should share it. Not for critique, but for the possibility that others may gain some level of enjoyment.

[LewisCanon]

see the thing is... i dont want people to look at it and think... "thats a bad panorama" and im scared that they will

i want people to look at it and say wow... thats the only living picture of the whole memorial.....

[Sterling]

Then you should probably go back to the drawing board until you can be proud of it. No one is going to care that if it is a "first" if it's also "rubbish."

[nickbedford]

If you don't deam it of a decent standard, learn from it and try again.

I have many photos in shoots I don't think are high standard so I simply don't show them, but I try to understand why they're not usable and apply that next time.

But... if you want, post it here and maybe you could get some feedback?

[LewisCanon]

the problem is... failing setting up some sort of 100foot long track that i can run my trip on to get exactly the same shot each time... its not gonna get much better than it is right now...

where can i host a 70,000 pixel wide image? (yes thats the cropped versio)

[LewisCanon]

you know, im gonna go back and try again on friday... this time with a 50mm fixed focal... and im gonna follow the Flower line that is a way back... that way each photo should be pretty much the same... i shall not be beaten..

[nickbedford]

For a straight wall panorama, you want the flattest perspective/lens you can get, so use the longest focal length you're comfortable using (or can shoot in the area given). You're shooting manual I suppose for consistent exposure?

Do you also apply lens corrections to the images? (Say in Lightroom).

[LewisCanon]

50mm is gonna be pushing it... after that ill have to fall of a wall to get the pic lol....
yeah shooting manual... but when i did it with the wider angle it was distorted.... 50mm hopefully will do it!

[LewisCanon]

Originally Posted by nickbedford

Do you also apply lens corrections to the images? (Say in Lightroom).

why didnt i think of this? thank you!