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Panoramas

I have been doing panoramas for a long time and in the days of film, I used to simply join photographs together. I also had a simple, cheap plastic panoramic film camera which took panoramic photographs. Now, with digital, I take several images along a plane and merge (stitch) the images together to make one long image, using Photoshop or another dedicated stitching program.

Here's one I did of a view from our holiday home in Wales some years ago...

As you can see, the problem with displaying them on a web page is they are rather thin.  The scene spans nearly 180 degrees and was made up of no fewer than 11 separate images.

Providing you have Java Scripting turned on in your web browser, here's a better way to enjoy the panorama. Use your mouse to scan the horizon left and right.

	It's also possible to stitch images vertically too!
	On the right are the 4 images I took of a Giant Redwood tree at a Country Park, stitched together to give the resulting image on the left.
	Of course, I could have just stood back far enough to get the whole tree in but the advantages of stitching images together gives you a much larger image for printing to poster-size prints than a single image would. Blowing up a single image to poster-size proportions would result in a pixellated image.
	Sometimes it's not always possible to stand back far enough to get all of the subject in so vertical stitching would come in handy for such occasions.

For another example of panoramic images, see Rooftop Fun.

There are some more panoramic images on the Caravanning Chronicles pages.  In order to get a whole camp site in the picture, I had to resort to this method of stitching images together due to confined spaces. 

There are also a few alternative methods of viewing panoramic images using QuickTime, such as this one taken at Little Acres campsite, The Gatehouse  and Golden Sands.

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