Panorama of a Shelf Cloud

[James Langford]

Thank you comrades for sharing your utterly breath taking panoramas and teaching us about alternative good software to photoshop.
Another question.. Where would one find good editing software that allows us to put a watermark on a photo, or to place a spectacular footer title like on James Langfords?

Hi Stephen. My website (smugmug.com) allows me to overlay my images with a .png file to create a copyright. I think you can use Photoshop to do something similar using layers, if you have photoshop. I don't know of any free software, but I'm sure there are some out there.

James

 

[D. Hayes]

Very very impressive guys! I'm in Colorado for a few weeks of training so I'm hoping to get some nice shots of Pikes Peak and Royal Gorge. Any tips you all can share would be much appreciated!

 

[Ryan McGinnis]

For free software, google "Autostitch". Works better than most pay software.

 

[Jean-Marc Rioux]

Thank you comrades for sharing your utterly breath taking panoramas and teaching us about alternative good software to photoshop.
Another question.. Where would one find good editing software that allows us to put a watermark on a photo, or to place a spectacular footer title like on James Langfords?

Hi Stephen. I use a freeware called "faststone image viewer" to batch convert \ resize \ watermark my pictures. http://www.faststone.org/

In the top menu: setting \ batch convert (or hit "f3"), select "use advanced options", then click on "advanced option" and go to the tab named "text" (or "watermark" if you wanna use a logo)

 

[Stephen Levine]

Thank you, James, Jean-Marc and Ryan.. I appreciate your watermark software suggestions and will check these options out. Previously and on a desktop, I've used Microsoft "Picture-it", which is no longer available. I will look into these other options for my new laptop.

 

[Chip Redmond]

Thank you, James, Jean-Marc and Ryan.. I appreciate your watermark software suggestions and will check these options out. Previously and on a desktop, I've used Microsoft "Picture-it", which is no longer available. I will look into these other options for my new laptop.

Gimp is the image editor I use. It's free and allows you to put copyrights as a layer much like photoshop does. Just another option.


Chip

 

[Paul Hadfield]

Amazing work guys! Niccolò, the following image is incredible, what exactly is this? Interaction of a sea breeze/land breeze?

James, completely at a loss for words and Ryan, had not seen your Goshen pano's, positively stunning!

I've tried the Photomerge in CS3 but not a big fan and even if rendered in layers to allow for further work. For mine I have simply stitched each together manually. Found that to go into Filter>Distort>Lens Correction and remove distortion 1-3 or till horizon is straight on each frame makes it much easier to line up manually. Here's a few...

 

[Jason Foster]

not just shelf clouds and weather

It's kinda a weather related shot, but not of active weather....parties can make for interesting pano's

 

[Chris Rice]

Man ol man, what a bunch of great pics! Thanks Joey for starting this thread. I've been wanting to do this for awhile now, and have taken several photos over the years with the intention of stitching together, and this article finally got me off my butt, and I'm grateful. Now if I can just locate all the pics I've taken. My video/still camera doesn't have the ability to attach a 10mm lens, so this is the only way I can get wide angle shots of these storms is with a stitching program. These were stitched using PTgui.

 

[W. Grant Dade]

At Pike's Peak before a Sunday Chase in Colorado. One of my first panoramas.

 

[Mike Deep]

Bump!

 

[Jason Foster]

It's damn hard to ever get decent shots in the Mid-Atlantic. This is still sub-par, but decent for being a northwest Pennsylvania chase (July 23rd, 2010).

The same day on the way home in northern Maryland.

 

[James Langford]

Here's a couple of new ones from chasing and travelling this year. Click to see a larger version!


Shot near Stratford, TX with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 10 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stops. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.


Shot near Putnam, OK with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 8 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stops. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.


Shot near Putnam, OK with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 8 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stops. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.



Shot in Estes Park, Colorado with Canon 30D and 10-22 lens. 6 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stop. Merged with Photomatix, stitched with PTGui, finalized with CS4.
Shot near Putnam, OK with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 6 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stops. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.


Shot in Rocky Mountain National Park with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 10 vertical shots bracketted -/+ 1 1/3 stops. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.


Shot in Rocky Mountain National Park with Canon 30D with 10-22 lens. 8 vertical shots. Merged in Photomatix, stitched in PTGui, finalized in CS4.




Thanks for looking!

 

[Joe Karel]

These are my two favorite from this year. Not the greatest camera but I started to try and take a lot more of these by the end of the year.

 

[Niccolò Ubalducci]

Amazing work guys! Niccolò, the following image is incredible, what exactly is this? Interaction of a sea breeze/land breeze?

Hi Paul!

I'm really sorry for the long times past before my answer.

I think is was a similar cloud to the morning glory. It was formed along the gust front of north wind over the Adriatic sea; probably the very high Hygrometric salt it was the cause.

Best regards!