Hi Folks:
I’ve been making digital panoramas since I owned my first digital camera, and some time before that with prints (although we called them photomosaics back then). Just to be clear, there’s a difference (at least to me) between a panoramic image – one that’s been cropped to a wide-aspect format – and a digital panorama. A digital panorama is one where 2+ images of the same scene are combined in post-processing software to create one image that captures more of the scene than could be contained in a single frame. There are several advantages to creating panoramas; three of the most prominent are:
- the aforementioned ability to capture more of a scene
- the ability to use a longer focal length lens to avoid wide-angle lens distortions and vignetting
- the ability to create higher resolution images than can be captured in a single image
We’re not going to get into the technical details of making panoramas in this post, but those who are interested are welcome to review our other posts on panoramas, here. This is an example of a digital panorama:
Tofino, BC – 60 images (click on any image to see it larger)