My First Panoramic Pics

The passion for panoramic pictures started when I was asked by a friend to take a full picture of the school we put up but somehow I couldn't fit the whole building into the frame even if I stood at the furthest corner of the lot.

Wishing I had a panoramic shot led me into searching for the easiest system of creating panoramic pictures from digital photos. I use an amateurish Sony Cyber-shot and use my finger as rotation point since I haven't bothered buying a tripod yet.

The pictures came out well, considering I have been taking pictures less than month.


The wonders of Auotstitch:

This is a panorama from 3 shots off the far corner of the Kolisko School in E. Rodriguez near Tomas Morato in Quezon City.

Two panoramic pics from the back of the school.
Three photos per panoramic pic.
You really need a steady hand if you don't have a tripod.

Then I tried taking pics inside the class rooms.
I've been wanting to capture the full effect of the rooms as one walks in.
Both rooms were labors of love, parents pitching in to lazure paint the walls.

You can really see the need of a tripod for this panoramic pic.
Not too steady a hand leads to a difficulty in cropping after the stitch.

But I think I did the rooms justice and captured their beauty.

Shortly after I took these pics, a friend took me and my wife to Kusina Salud in San Pablo, Laguna. The food was great and I had a massage too. But what caught my fancy were the rooms in the old house they converted into a mini museum.

I love old houses and salas with high ceilings and big windows.
Reminds me of that old Ilocano song:
Manang Biday, ilukat mo man
Ta bentana ikalumbabam
Ta kitaem toy kinayawan
Ay matayakon no dinak kaasian

This is an open room between the sala and the bedroom.
Probably a second receiving area or a comedor before the renovation.
All those frames contains pics of birds in the Philippines.
Amazing to see all these pics and not one of them is a maya, tagak or uwak.

This used to be a bedroom now they use it as a spa room.
I didn't do the room much justice.
Not seen on the left is the door to the wash room.
And the leveling is real bad. Really need a tripod.

The very next day I visited UP Diliman with my daughter. She wanted to go to a park and I wanted to make panoramic pics with more than three photographs stitched together.

This is the sunken garden.
I took eight (8) different shots and stitch them together.
The garden is still beautiful on a weekend.
Although lighting is very varied in a 180 degree shot without a tripod.
Leaves a lot of room for improvement.


This is the lagoon between Palma Hall and Melchor Hall.
A combination of five (5) pictures in approximately 130 degree angle.
During the dry season people actually gather here to have a picnic.
In the wet season, you barely see the walkway.

That's all for now. Next projects would be night shots, elevated shots, and I'll try again to capture vertical panoramas, I totally screwed the last one.

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http://koliskofoundation.blogspot.com/
http://koliskoschool.blogspot.com/