how I use categories on chromasia

All the entries on chromasia are placed into one of seven primary categories: six to reflect the aspect ratio of the image, and the seventh to indicate that an image isn’t available as a print. This is purely to simplify the ‘buy this print’ page for each image. Additionally, each photograph may be assigned to one of more additional categories or subcategories, e.g. my photo friday category, self-portrait category, children category, and so on.

about the ‘panoramas’ category

This category contains image created with either Photoshop's 'photomerge' facility or Stitcher Unlimited (produced by Realviz).

30 June, 2007 // caught in the middle36 comments

I've been meaning to try a panoramic shot for ages and am reasonably pleased with how this has turned out. It was created from seven originals taken at 17mm, using Stitcher. This does a much better job than Photoshop's 'photomerge' function, which is ok for shots with no distortion, but doesn't do a great job with wide angle shots; i.e. there's too much distortion.

Anyway, I'm not entirely convinced that I got the composition right – I probably should have shot the sequence in portrait rather than landscape format, and I think it needs a bit more space on the right – but other than that I think it's probably ok. Let me know what you think.

Oh, and if you're interested, there's a larger version of this image here:

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