Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Panos


On this last trip out to UT I wanted to work on making some nice panoramic photos. The Arches and Canyonlands area is just so big that it is hard to capture it in a regular sized photo. This photo of Dead Horse point state park was made up of 8 shots, and used photoshops photomerge to stitch them together. In order to get the different photos to stitch together nicely you need to find the lenses nodal point. This is the point inside the lens where the light paths cross before being focused onto a sensor. By finding the nodal point of the lens and rotating the camera around this point you prevent the lens from warping or distorting the corners and sides of the image. There is always something new to learn and I can't wait to learn more about panos.
Canon 30D, Canon 17-40mm, Nodal plate, Sandisk digital film.

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