Category: National Trust

Panoramas for tutorial taken at Shugborough NT: #5from7photo

This week I delivered a short tutorial to fellow photography volunteers for the Wildlife Trust I also volunteer for. The topic was ‘Panoramas’ and covered both the taking and stitching of the panos. Earlier in the week I went with my wife to the National Trust property Shugborough Hall which gave me an opportunity to take some panoramic photos for the course.

I took several and prepared them all but didn’t use them all in the presentation. Here are a selection of them (note they are all hand-held – no specialist pano head, nor tripod, was used):

This image is composed of 2 rows of 4 images to demonstrate that you are not constrained by a single row of images – the top row was to get the top of the trees in. The field of view is approximately 124 x 80 degrees
This view of the bridge was taken as it is easier to spot stitching errors in man-made structures
Panoramic techniques are not constrained to distant landscapes: this was hand held with two macro photos of rotting wood. Due to the closeness to the lens, some of it is out of focus.
Three images were used for this view of the footbridge and river. By careful positioning of the camera, there was no discernable parallax or stitching errors with the hand rail.
For this final image, I wanted to show the wide view including the fence