October photography competition subject and entries here.

[Jack3559]

EDIT: Upload fail, I'll try again later.

[bobbarley]

How are you guys taking these landscapes?  Is it like the widest wide angle lends ever?! 

[Stronz]

How are you guys taking these landscapes?  Is it like the widest wide angle lends ever?! 

I assumed multiple shots stitched together to create a panorama 

[Ridg]

How are you guys taking these landscapes?  Is it like the widest wide angle lends ever?! 

'Photoshoppery': Comprised of around 24 images originally (360 degrees) but cropped to approx 10 images worth (just less than a 180 degree view). Stitched together using free program called 'Hugin'.

 

[cняis]

Hugin is free (open source) and automatically looks for corresponding points between a series of images. Bigger overlap is better though, 3 of my images wouldnt stitch together as there weren't enough corresponding points. Although I covered 360 degrees, the scenery behind me wasn't interesting (and would have resulted in a huge image) so I cropped it to approx 180 degrees.

Hugin will also use a macro to adjust exposure and contrast settings for all images. Pretty foolproof but it takes ages to get around it!

[shepgti]

Hugin will also use a macro to adjust exposure and contrast settings for all images. Pretty foolproof but it takes ages to get around it!

the auto contrast/exposure didnt work too great

[Horney]

I used CS5 for mine which corrects the lens vignetting on each shot when it merges them. Well handy! I then tweked the exposure in Lightroom.

Nick

[Ridg]

I personally use ptgui which is a commecial GUI for panorama tools the same base that hugin uses.

for those using PS, check out either the trial of ptgui or hugin as panorama tools is much more accurate than PS and much quicker too.

[Horney]

I'd be surprised if it's quicker.

I select the shots in Lightroom, right click and select "Merge to Panorama in CS5", CS5 opens in about 5 secs, I tick a couple of boxes and click go, 20 secs later I have the panorama completed and popped back into lightroom for inclusion in my batch edits.

Nick

[Ridg]

I'd be surprised if it's quicker.

I select the shots in Lightroom, right click and select "Merge to Panorama in CS5", CS5 opens in about 5 secs, I tick a couple of boxes and click go, 20 secs later I have the panorama completed and popped back into lightroom for inclusion in my batch edits.

Nick

try stitching a complex pano shot in PS