Project365 - Panoramas

I like to try different photography techniques, usually right after I read about them & see stunning examples of the craft. I think to myself "I can do that !", and off I go, merrily seeing if I'm right. In this case, I'm curious about panoramas.

A panorama is a series of images stitched together at the sides, which are made to look like one very wide photo. The latest iteration of iOS includes the ability to do panoramic shots within its software, but I find the camera on my iPhone to be pretty crummy compared to my 60D !

Interestingly, I do a LOT of my post-processing on my iPad - running iOS7. But alas, I need to use a third party app, instead of the native iOS implementation called "Camera". So, being frugal, I downloaded a free app, just to see how this works.

Here is the first image of three.

The second image...

 

The third image.

When all three images are "stitched" together, you end up with an image like this. The software uses an algorithm to determine points on each picture which overlap. It then uses those as reference points, to make a single image. I cropped the final image a bit, just so it would have nice, square corners, but you can easily make out the distortion at the corners.

 

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