Panoramas from Harbour Walk

[Yi-P]

I'm here again with the panoramas...
I tweaked my 4MP into a 12MP camera... cool!

3 of them here, not sure which one works better....










C&C appreciated

[Geoff]

I like 2nd and 3rd here Yip, the third one shows more interest with the ppl in it. The 2nd I like the wall component in the bottom right hand corner. Great reminder of a magic morning! Well done bud.

[tsanglabs]

Nice panos!

For me it is a split between the 1st & 3rd for fav. I like the 3rd but the horizon looks a bit crooked to me. I like the inclusion of the photogs.

I like the way the 1st pano starts off from the bottom right and leads the viewer across the bay to the bridge, with the cityscape centered between the two.

For the 2nd I personally find the track on the bottom right too distracting.

my 2c

[Yi-P]

Thanks

It sure was a magical morning with plenty of exercises!!

[Alpha_7]

Nicely capture Yip, I take it you used Panofactory to stitch these ?

[Matt. K]

Hi Yi-P
As an example of producing pano shots....excellent! But as images to look at again and again they are missing something. This is only my opinion and others will probably disagree....but for me, too many pictorial elements but no main element....compositon seems to be lacking and the eye gets 'walked' out of the image frame. Distracting or empty foregrounds. Images look cold and overly blue.
So I'm guessing this is not how it seemed when you were looking through the viewfinder but that's how perception and photography often clash. Looking at the scene and wondering how it might have been improved I guess a much longer focal length lens and just concentrate on the city....leaving a little water in the foreground. I think that would have worked. When creating panos you need to put the technique behind the subject selection and that can be a bloody hard thing to do. One aproach is to look at a subject that you would photograph normally because of its appeal....and make a pano out of it.
I hope this makes sense as a constructive critique.

[Geoff]

Matt - your critques are always that, constructive. It's great having you here Happy bday too.

[Yi-P]

Hi Yi-P
As an example of producing pano shots....excellent! But as images to look at again and again they are missing something. This is only my opinion and others will probably disagree....but for me, too many pictorial elements but no main element....compositon seems to be lacking and the eye gets 'walked' out of the image frame. Distracting or empty foregrounds. Images look cold and overly blue.
So I'm guessing this is not how it seemed when you were looking through the viewfinder but that's how perception and photography often clash. Looking at the scene and wondering how it might have been improved I guess a much longer focal length lens and just concentrate on the city....leaving a little water in the foreground. I think that would have worked. When creating panos you need to put the technique behind the subject selection and that can be a bloody hard thing to do. One aproach is to look at a subject that you would photograph normally because of its appeal....and make a pano out of it.
I hope this makes sense as a constructive critique.

That is a bloody good suggestion!!

It was quite tiring and exhausted by time we got 'up' there... I was thinking of pulling out my 300mm, but then it takes a little effort to hold it there, so I stood with the 35mm. I guess laziness and photography don't mix


A pano out of subjects I normally photograph, ahh, that sounds hard but really interesting. Places I photograph often is tight spaces and will be interesting of a panorama out of tight space!!