Stowe Landscape Gardens

[dubaiphil]

A B&W stitched panorama from Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire

[Shadowman]

Very nice. How many shots were necessary to capture this?

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Thanks John

It's a 12 shot stitch at 50mm

[deetheturk]

Great image Phil!

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Thanks David. This was the stitch that finally killed my laptop!

I have a few more images while I was at the gardens of this famous bridge from more traditional angles - my first bit of Lightroom cc practise on Mac coming shortly

[dje]

Very nice Phil, everything comes together with this - the light, the composition and the detail.

Dave

[JR1]

I am NOT being funny, serious question,

could you have used a w/a lens rather than panorama

[dubaiphil]

Serious answer, Jeremy :-)

Yes I could, and in the past may have done with my 14-24.

But I wanted the extra resolution for wider shots and vistas - I don't own my 14-24 any more as I wasn't using it that much, but solid technique hand held with a 35 or 50 gets me the results I'm after

And you can't see it on this resolution, but it was shot at f2 on a 50 to give separation and a more medium format look to a printed version - a.k.a. Brenizer panorama, but a bit more subtle as I wasn't that close to the bridge

[Rebel]

Great shot!

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Thanks Matt - here's the 1/2 sized version

[JR1]

Serious answer, Jeremy :-)

Yes I could, and in the past may have done with my 14-24.

But I wanted the extra resolution for wider shots and vistas - I don't own my 14-24 any more as I wasn't using it that much, but solid technique hand held with a 35 or 50 gets me the results I'm after

And you can't see it on this resolution, but it was shot at f2 on a 50 to give separation and a more medium format look to a printed version - a.k.a. Brenizer panorama, but a bit more subtle as I wasn't that close to the bridge

I hadn't considered the resolution part

[GBO25]

A great image Phil and well worth the technique.
By the way is it a horizontal pan stitch, vertical pan stitch or a mosiac?
Just wondering because I've tried all the above at different times but invariably ended up with obvious distortion from the resulting wide angle.

[klpurkett]

Beautiful image! I haven't attempted anything beyond stitching two shots, and haven't had great results with that! 12 is incredible!

[dubaiphil]

A great image Phil and well worth the technique.
By the way is it a horizontal pan stitch, vertical pan stitch or a mosiac?
Just wondering because I've tried all the above at different times but invariably ended up with obvious distortion from the resulting wide angle.

Thanks Graham. I started bottom right with a portrait orientation sweep of 6 images to the bottom left, followed by another 6 for the top row.

This is an old 1983 lens which doesn't have a profile in Lightroom, so I use the 50mm f1.4D profile through LR, correcting again for vignetting. Then into PRGui for the stitch, and finally Photoshop and Nik Color and Silver Efex

[dubaiphil]

Beautiful image! I haven't attempted anything beyond stitching two shots, and haven't had great results with that! 12 is incredible!

Thanks Kristy. PTGui is the stitching software I used. Much easier than Photoshop. 12 is actually quite lightweight as I've shot up to 60 shots for blended night panoramas, which the software can also cope with

[Wavelength]

A classic work indeed

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Thanks Nandakumar

[ST1]

Nicely done Phil, thanks for the information on the original captures and the post processing.