Use an iPhone, don’t use a tripod, don’t use a leveler. Because if you do your horizon gets all lumpy and out of sorts. (Click to embiggen.)
But a little fairy tells me a GMG contributor is going to have some cool panoramas within a month.
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I like this Paul. I bet the iPhone automatically leveled the horizon and stabilized the shakiness.
It does do a lot of processing but this is done in moments. A fun thing to do at a party is wave it over your head and capture a 360 but people can turn into monsters if they move. All ear, just a forehead. With an horizon line like a sunset it really needs a tripod or it wiggles the horizon trying to match everything up.
I remember doing this with photoshop and the lights would dim the processing took so long.
I’ve used a carpenter’s level on my tripod-mounted cameras to straighten the horizon, from 35mm cameras to 11×14 inch view cameras. It really helped. I haven’t fastened a digital camera to a tripod yet, but I sure will. Marty’s Fuji X-100 has a level displayed in one of his info screens, and that will be great. I have my trusty Leitz Tiltall tripod here at the gallery, and just want a little warmer weather. Baby, it’s cold outside!
I’ve had a bubble level app on my iPhone for years and never thought to use it to level for a panorama shot. When it warms up I will try again with a tripod and a pre-sweep using that program.
Uhmmm…. What’s a pre-sweep? I’m such a DD (Digital Dinosaur)! FOB, FOG, and DD. That’s me, and I’m sticking with it!
Lab jargon. In this case just swinging the camera through the arc and watching the level to see that the tripod is level throughout. Then go back, turn the camera on and do the real sweep of the iPhone for the panorama.
The iPhone, AKA the DSLR Killer – As you can imagine there are iPhoto only photographers and they do some incredible stuff. I Just picked up my 5 and still cant think of more that a phone. Must be the age group I fall in. If you take a look at the Really Right Stuff web site they have some great iPhone 5 cases and tripod stuff for the 5 and a few other great toys as well.
I think I can hear some water dripping!