how to take Panoramics

[Mefistofeles]

i took this one with my P&S kodak and the the panoramic function.

any ideas on how could i have improve the composition???

By the way, this is the view from the backyard of a guy's house. In El Salvador

[Booter]

it's quite brilliant I'd say, even for the small size you've posted it at. And what's more, you shot it with a point & shoot. good work!

[pumpkinpastry]

i think you did an awesome job with your p&s. i have a question though, is it better to take the images from a single point or does moving parallel yield better results?

[ScooberJake]

Originally Posted by pumpkinpastry

i think you did an awesome job with your p&s. i have a question though, is it better to take the images from a single point or does moving parallel yield better results?

Definitely better to rotate the camera about a single point, specifically the lens entrance pupil (also sometimes called the nodal point). This is usually somewhere around the middle of the lens (not the middle of the camera or where the tripod mount is!). Moving the camera parallel will give you problems if you have elements in the photo that are close to the camera. If everything is far away, doesn't really matter.

More info:

http://www.panoguide.com/
http://gregwired.com/pano/Pano.htm
http://www.tawbaware.com/ptasmblr.htm

Oh yeah, nice pano, btw.

[i_luv_ph0tos]

I love the composition... nice place.. where is it?

[HockeyFan]

Thanks for posting the links, Scoober Jake.

[Mefistofeles]

Originally Posted by i_luv_ph0tos

I love the composition... nice place.. where is it?

The view from a guys house in El Salvador, Central America. Amazing ain't it?

[coplan]

Awesome shot. I lve how the tree on the right and the tree mass on the left frame the shot.

Wish my backyard looked like that.

[Mefistofeles]

Originally Posted by coplan

Wish my backyard looked like that.

yeah.. me too..

And thanks for the cheers!!

Imagine this, the guys is not rich.. not VERY rich i mean. But he is so respected that the people from all the little towns, aloud him to give that artificial lake a name... i can't remember the name but it's an indigenous word.

... the lake it's actually from a dam..

[frad-ster]

Sorry, I just had to laugh when you said composition and panorama in the same question. Personally, I don't think typical composition is something you can even consider when you are doing a pano. The rule of thirds for example was developed for 4:3 formats...not 20:3 formats. You'd have to come up with a rule of ninths or something to really begin to think about it. OK, I am rambling here. The point is, a pano is not so much composed as it is captured. Find a good place to capture a "scape" and get an image that is pleasing to the eye (which your is ).

I guess you can think about composition during pano shooting, but I usually just try to capture the spectacularness of nature. As always, my thoughts are open to review