Yeah, I know what you mean -- I usually end up scaling down, too. This is the one and only quad that I did a couple of years ago as a photo demo - Mount Hood and Elk Cove from 99 Ridge (at about this time of year, too)

-Tom

Forgot to say why -- this was taken before I purchased a digital SLR and wide angle lens. Not sure I'd need to do the quad thing again these days. But it does have a different "flattened" look that a simple wide angle doesn't give.

Tom

I've taken a few panoramas on my hikes using the autostitch program posted in this forum. One that I'm very proud of capturing is my Tunnel Falls panorama, composed of 16 photos using my Canon Pro1 8mp, and 28mm lens setting. It is really difficult to photograph Tunnel falls, on Eagle creek,due to the heavy mist, and nearness and scope of the setting. This photo is greatly reduced to fit this forum.

 

And this nice sunrise I saw in Washington on the PCT of Blowout Mountain. 8 photos autostitched, also reduced.

My photo galleries, with larger versions of the above are on http://www.pbase.com/losthiker 

....thought I'd bring this old thread back up to the top for Darren... anything you want to add, Darren?

Tom

Kiger Gorge, Steens Mountain

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"There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." --Edward Abbey

John Day River somewhere between Clarno and Cottonwood.

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"There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." --Edward Abbey

4-image, vertically oriented pano taken in Gilbert Basin about 3 weeks ago.  Only reason I ended up having to do a pano here is because my 10-20mm lens was in the shop, so I had no other way of achieving the uber-wideness I needed.

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Bryan Swan
http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com

That is a cool pic's.

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"There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." --Edward Abbey

I am going to have to try this program out.  Is it possible to do it without a tripod?  I have a little mini tripod I can use, but it has to sit on something else, like a rock.

I actually tried doing this myself a couple times with just an image editor (Gimp) and a few pictures shot without a tripod.  It is really hard to do manually.

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Dan - Site Cartographer

Martell:

I am going to have to try this program out.  Is it possible to do it without a tripod?  I have a little mini tripod I can use, but it has to sit on something else, like a rock.

I actually tried doing this myself a couple times with just an image editor (Gimp) and a few pictures shot without a tripod.  It is really hard to do manually.

I use Autostitch and then take a gazillion pictures (OK not a gazillion) but enough so that I can crop a good pano. I don't use a tripod. I took all the pictures of the John Day River pano from the front of a floating canoe. I just wished I had taken more pictures to have the upper section of some of the canyon walls.

Autostitch is easy to use just open up the pictures you want to use and it does all the work.

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"There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog." --Edward Abbey

Here are a couple of images I stitched together using a cheep ($30) little program from AcraSoft called Panorama Maker.

St Helens using 5 images (note the polarizing lines in the sky).

St Helens using 4 images and no polarizing filter.

FYI this is a stitch of seven vertical photos - love Photoshop (it's all fair game as long as you are honest about it)

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Our hiking & photo website

I just joined this site, and love panoramas, so I though I'd revive this thread.  I have a ton of panoramas, but I'll limit it to ones taken since I moved to Oregon this summer.


Timberline Lodge


Mt Hood


Timberline Interior


Silcox Hut


Silcox Hut Interior

Columbia River Gorge (from the Vista House)


Multnomah Falls


The Deschutes River


Camping on the Deschutes


Horning's Hideout Concert Crowd


Hood and the Willamette Valley

Portland and Hood


Pitcock Mansion


NE View from Mt June


SE View from Mt June


Mt June Sunset