Panoramic view of St.Louis Arch
One of my early experiments with Panoramic Photography. I used Nikon Coolpix 3700 to take five shots of this breathtaking monument at different angle, and stitched them together to create a single snap. You can still makeout the crossover of different layers due to imbalance in contrast and brightness.
This stainless steel structure rises to an astonishing 630 feet from ground level. It also boasts of an unique tram system to take people all the way to the top for a view of St. Louis downtown and the river.
4 comments:
WOW!!!
How did you say FIVE shots?
Looks like more.
One doubt.
If you just change the angle, Dont the pictures look kind of wrap arounds? Its not like a flat picture then!
may be i will be able to get a clear "picture" if you took Mysore standing relatively close to it.
How did I say five? Because I know its five :)
When I said I took five different shots at different angles, I meant I took five different shots with part of it overelapping with each other from the same point. Like in this case, first I took the base, then moved up a little bit while keeping an overlapping region from the same point, and so on.
Once you have the snaps ready, you need a software to stitch them. Its not simple cut-copy-past but much more complicated than that and its not easy to do it manually. You need to decide if the final picture is going to be flat or spherical. If you are covering more than 180 degrees, then it looks better when you choose spherical output.
Software tools make stitching very easy. All you have to do is to identify three overlapping points between each snap, and the tool will take care of the rest, i.e, rotating, normalizing, stitching and framing.
Checkout http://db.manfrotto.com/303SPH/main.php?cnt=howto for more detailed info on this topic.
Fabulous photo! And admirable, such passion and enthusiasm! Hoping to see more of your experiments!
I did a spherical pano of the arch last week... See it at http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2375/2436574652_472a857503.jpg
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